In a recent interview, the Minister of Urban Development and Housing, Darío Herrera, spoke about the management of his State portfolio in the first 100 days of Government, and the Ministry’s plans to bring real estate investors into Ecuador. In the first 100 days of...

Everywhere you look in Ecuador’s newspapers, you see President Lasso’s name: he’s going to CELEC, he’s speaking at the UN, he is being hailed for stopping Covid-19 in Ecuador, he has a meeting set up with Conaie, he is a busy, busy guy. And none of these things even...

Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held a summit in Mexico on Saturday, which criticized the OAS, requested that the United States change its relationship with the region, and raised questions of the presence of the Venezuelan...

MIES relaunched a protection program for the Elderly, in a further attempt to reduce violence and poverty in this segment of the population

Espol presents App to help banana growers to detect Fusarium On Monday, the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (Espol), presented an application that will allow farmers to interact with experts from the study center to detect the presence of Fusarium R4T in their...

Published: Volume 5, issue 32: Quito mayor on trial for embezzlement; Ombudsman arrested for sexual assault Ecuadorian Parliament dismisses the Ombudsman Freddy Carrión The Ecuadorian National Assembly has approved the removal of the Ombudsman, Freddy Carrión, with 75...

Minister of the economy said details of a tax reform, part of a broader reform, will be released at the end of the month. As part of the tax reform and other economic reforms that the Government will send to the Assembly at the end of the month, the contribution to be...

In the first nine months of the year, 3,500 Ecuadorians have been deported from the United States. Miguel saw death head-on on his way to the United States. The azuayan returned to Ecuador from Mexico two weeks ago after a grueling trip thru the desert was too much...

For the first time in 20 years, Peru’s credit rating was downgraded. Even in the worst moments of political instability, such as when the country had three presidents in a week, the international rating agencies did not punish the country with a less favorable...

Update to: In a surprise shift in the Quito mayoral saga, Yunda is returned to office by the Provincial Court of Pichincha Published: Volume 5, Issue 43 Three months after the removal of Mayor Jorge Yunda, his position remains in dispute A ruling from the Provincial...

The government of Guillermo Lasso has completed 100 days in power and international experts described the diplomatic handling of vaccines and investments as positive. Lasso, before assuming power, began to manage with other countries the provision of Covid-19...

Update to: Banana sector reinforces prevention measures to avoid Foc R4T fungus Published: Volume 5, Issue 27 Controls in banana provinces are reinforced to prevent the entry of Fusarium Race 4 Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that in towns such as...

80% of its population depends on the industry that the coronavirus pandemic destroyed. Now the most famous islands in the world seem to be recovering, but it will not be easy.

Corporación Favorita expects to create 600 construction jobs and 350 direct jobs in the commercial premises when they open their doors in early 2023.

A recent study published in the Journal of Fish Biology highlights that the country’s aquatic ecosystems are seriously threatened, and conditions are worsening.

Ecuador is the world’s biggest exporter of balsa wood, most of it shipped to China. Indigenous communities in Ecuador’s Pastaza River Basin say balsa is being logged illegally in their territories and is damaging the ecological integrity of the region and hurting Indigenous communities.  The problem has reportedly spread to neighboring Peru, where Indigenous communities accuse Ecuadoran balsa loggers of felling commercially valuable trees and even kidnapping a child.

During the presidential term of Lenín Moreno, whose term ended in May, the Attorney General’s Office had to create a specialized Task Force to be able to process and carry out investigations into alleged illegal acts related to the acquisition of products for the health emergency. As part of the cross-border project ‘Watch the pandemic,’ the following report details several of the emblematic cases, involving officials, businessmen and even the children of former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram.

A set of at least 65 changes included in the reforms of the Organic Law on Traffic, Land Transportation and Road Safety (LOTTSV), came into effect this past Tuesday. For example, as of August 10th, drivers have 90 business days to pay their pending violations and the...

When the Antinarcotics Police broke into a bottled water business in Los Vergeles, north of Guayaquil, on Friday night, the agents couldn’t imagine that hidden in the back of an office, they would find “a gold mine,” of drugs as described by one of the uniformed men...

10,000 Ecuadorian citizens are arriving in Mexico each month to attempt entry into U.S.; many falling victims to crime, some have gone missing

Indigenous land defender Nemonte Nenquimo discusses how climate change has altered the Amazon, the plant medicines used to help fight COVID-19, and the ancestral knowledge passed down by her elders. “People from the outside [of Waorani territory] see empty land but to...

Update to: Cannabis in Ecuador: Industry and opportunity Published: Volume 5, Issue 41 Ecuador's flower industry shifts toward hemp as rose sales wither At one of Ecuador's oldest flower farms, workers are planting hemp on land that was traditionally used for roses,...

A new report by Ecuador’s Alliance for Human Rights examines abuses against environmental rights defenders over the past 10 years, and finds 449 defenders subjected to intimidation, threats, harassment, persecution, and assassination.

Between January and June 2021 there were 68 femicides in Ecuador according to civil society organizations. In the same period of 2020, there were 53

Despite the economic losses due to the pandemic, inhabitants are betting on small and even improvised businesses to get ahead.

The first steps towards an emerging market The cannabis industry is not simple, but it has promise. It is crossed by social, therapeutic and public health, scientific, productive, legal issues and even a certain morality, a product of ignorance and the stigma that the...