Warmer Pacific waters are disrupting fisheries, pushing some fish prices sharply higher while flooding the market with shrimp. El Niño is no longer simply a forecast of what might happen to Ecuador later this year. Its effects are already showing up in the country’s...
Extra, Ecopaís and diesel are slightly cheaper through October 11, while premium gasoline moves in the opposite direction. Drivers in Ecuador are seeing two very different fuel-price trends this month. Beginning September 12th, the price of Extra and Ecopaís gasoline...
The $90 million proposal promises more electricity and water security for Cuenca, but environmental opposition has not disappeared. A hydroelectric project that once stalled amid strong community and environmental opposition is back on the government’s agenda. The...
Airport officials are working toward a November Cuenca–Chiclayo route that could become a test case for broader regional service. Cuenca’s long-running effort to establish international air service is moving into a more concrete phase, with airport officials pushing to open a direct route to Chiclayo, Peru, in November. The proposed connection would link Mariscal La […]
More than half of the canton’s 2026 traffic deaths have occurred along the Cuenca–Molleturo–El Empalme corridor. Thirty-seven people had died in traffic accidents in Cuenca canton through September 11th, and one highway accounts for more than half of those fatalities: the Cuenca–Molleturo–El Empalme road. Twenty-one of the 37 deaths occurred on the mountain corridor connecting […]
The sixth review of Ecuador’s $5 billion IMF program comes as the government relies heavily on new borrowing to pay old obligations. Ecuador faces another important test of its public finances this week as the International Monetary Fund prepares for the sixth review of the country’s $5 billion lending program. The review is scheduled around […]
The Social Security system is trying to turn underused real estate into liquidity while hospitals and pension finances remain under pressure. The Ecuadorian Social Security Institute is preparing to sell 175 properties across the country as part of an effort to raise cash from a real-estate portfolio that has been poorly valued and, in many […]
The country’s most important strategic reservoir is falling rapidly while electricity imports from Colombia have almost disappeared. Ecuador entered its annual dry season earlier than usual this year, and the country’s most important strategic electricity reservoir is...
Guayas, Manabí, Los Ríos and El Oro will face five-hour nightly restrictions from September 17th through September 30th. Ecuador will impose a new overnight curfew in four coastal provinces beginning September 17th as the government intensifies security operations against organized crime. The restriction will apply in Guayas, Manabí, Los Ríos and El Oro from midnight […]