Wow. When I started The Cuenca Dispatch a little over nine years ago, I never imagined we’d still be reporting Ecuador’s news all these years later. And yet, here we are—Volume 10, Issue 1. If you’ve been in Cuenca a long time, you may remember those first few months...
Major hospitals and clinics lead a $35 million wave of healthcare development across the city.
President says frozen accounts revealed plots to use protest funds for destabilization and political gain.
Indigenous leaders call for resistance while the ruling party floods social media with lavish pro-government ads.
After acquiring Movistar, Millicom bets on Ecuador’s digital future with ambitious expansion and modernization plans.
Social fatigue, fractured leadership, and control of the narrative helped prevent national paralysis
Military offensives in Azuay coincide with government claims that soaring gold prices have made illegal mining nearly as lucrative as narcotics.
Interior minister John Reimberg outlines a tougher approach as the government targets criminal networks and illegal mining.
Joint maritime operations expose growing drug networks stretching from Manabí to the Galápagos.
Drug traffickers have built a violent alliance with sea pirates in Peruvian and Ecuadorian ports. The criminals extort the fishermen, rob them when they don’t pay, and even force them to transport drugs across the ocean. In Ecuador, 45 fishermen were killed in 2024, and in Peru, 24 died violently at the hands of pirates. […]
Government rescues thousands of animals and seizes thousands more in nationwide operations.