Imports, emergency repairs and rationed logistics are being used to keep key supplies moving nationwide. Ecuador’s fuel supply system is under mounting pressure after a fire at the Esmeraldas Refinery knocked out operations at the country’s largest refining complex,...
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...
Washington flags high-risk zones, urges emergency planning, and tells app users to verify who they meet. The United States has sharpened its warnings for Americans in Ecuador, painting a picture of a country where travel may still be possible in many areas but where...
Political interference, criminal infiltration and institutional paralysis are eroding Ecuador’s justice system from within. Ecuador’s justice system is facing a deepening institutional collapse, with judges and prosecutors caught between political pressure, organized crime and an administrative structure that appears increasingly unable to defend its own independence. A new report by the Citizenship and Development Foundation […]
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 resume most of its public attention and administrative operations on March 9th, reopening a broad range of […]
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 immediately deepened political tensions and raised new questions about how far criminal investigations can reach […]
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, they are actively grooming them for increasingly violent roles. Police say the two youths, ages 16 […]
Government officials say the next offensive targets the money, movement and logistics that keep criminal networks alive. Ecuador’s latest turn in its war against organized crime is no longer centered only on street violence, prison massacres or headline-grabbing troop deployments. It is now aimed at the arteries that keep criminal groups funded and supplied: the […]
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 inside a new U.S.-backed regional security bloc, presenting the country as both a frontline partner against organized […]