Tag: Quito

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  80 arrested in Ecuadorian protests, police say

  

  Ecuadorian police have reported that 80 people had been arrested in arrests in anti-government protests over the past few days following riots in Quito and other parts of the country where a curfew is in force and a state of emergency has been declared.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Mexico grants political asylum to members of Ecuadorean opposition holed in its Quito embassy

  

  Mexico granted political asylum on Thursday to four members of Ecuador's opposition holed up in its embassy in Quito since widespread social unrest in October, the foreign ministry said. The four lawmakers, including former Congress speaker Gabriela Rivadeneira, “took a commercial flight to Mexico” early Thursday, the ministry said in a statement.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Ecuador resumes oil exports after days of violent protests

  

  Ecuador on Sunday said it had resumed crude oil exports curbed by violent protests that forced several wells in the Amazon to halt operations.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Clashes in Ecuador as big march approaches Quito to protest rising fuel prices

  

  Hundreds of indigenous people and farmers clashed with Ecuadoran security forces on Monday as they marched toward the capital Quito to protest against rising fuel prices.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 21:13 UTC

  President of Uruguay criticizes Prosur for “generating another integration with ideological purpose”

  

  Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez questioned on Thursday the Colombian-Chilean initiative to create a new integration bloc to replace the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and argued that the region has a number of integration processes that collide and they become inefficient.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Latin American countries will receive Venezuelan migrants even with expired documents

  

  Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country's hyperinflation and severe shortages, but many do not have valid passports because renewing them can take years.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 05:34 UTC

  Earthquake strikes Quito kills two and violently shakes buildings

  

  A shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the Ecuadorian capital Quito, triggering landslides that killed at least two people and violently shaking buildings and homes. Another eight people were injured and three others trapped in the landslides at quarries on the outskirts of Quito, the country's risk management agency said on Twitter.

• Monday, August 11th 2014 - 22:30 UTC

  Quito, leading destination of South America, at World Travel Awards

  

  Ecuador's capital, Quito, was named “South America's Leading Destination” for the second year in a row at the 21st regional World Travel Awards gala, considered the Oscars of the tourism industry.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 02:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands: C24 must go to the territories and respect their basic human right to choose their own form of government

  

  The Falkland Islands are only asking the international community to support the fundamental human right of Falkland Islanders to choose their own form of government, to exercise their right to self determination, said lawmaker Mike Summers during his presentation at the United Nations Decolonization Committee (24) Caribbean regional seminar, in reference to the recent referendum held in the Islands, whose sovereignty is disputed by the UK and Argentina.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:55 UTC

  Puerto Rican Lawyer speaks at the UN Decolonisation Committee seminar

  

  At a UN Decolonisation Committee seminar, Wilma Reveron, a Puerto Rican lawyer said that the U.S. has made it clear that they do not intend to allow a true exercise of self-determination in Puerto Rico.