by Rebeca Mendoza | Mar 9, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 18
Transit agency reopens much of its national system after corruption case shutdown, while testing delays some of the most-used services. After more than a month of disruption triggered by a sweeping corruption investigation, Ecuador’s National Transit Agency will...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Mar 9, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 18
Miami summit deepens Ecuador’s military cooperation with Washington while widening the government’s internal political crackdown. A new regional front President Daniel Noboa used his appearance at the Shield of the Americas summit in Miami to place Ecuador firmly...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Mar 9, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 18
New SRI withholding rule trims earnings on policies and fixed term accounts opened for less than six months. Ecuadorians placing money in short-term deposit products at banks and cooperatives are now facing a slightly higher tax bite on their returns after the...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Mar 9, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 18
Opposition movement says suspension is aimed at crippling its ability to compete in next year’s local races. A judge of Ecuador’s Electoral Disputes Tribunal has ordered the provisional suspension of the Citizen Revolution movement for nine months, a decision that...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Mar 9, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 18
Social media, cash offers and coercion are pulling vulnerable teenagers into Ecuador’s growing criminal networks The arrests of two teenage suspects in Quito have exposed a disturbing pattern in Ecuador’s security crisis: criminal groups are not only using minors,...
