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Better than gold: how Ecuador cashed in on surging cocoa prices
Stone County Enterprise - Mississippi
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In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a global shortage of the main ingredient in chocolate feeds a price bonanza. Cocoa is now a billion-dollar business in the...
Noboa Grapples With Another High-Profile Prison Break in Ecuador
Mint
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June 24, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s government offered a $1 million reward on Monday for information leading to the recapture of suspected drug lord Rolando Federico Gomez after he escaped from a Guayaquil penitentiary disguised in a military uniform to pass...
World Heritage site managers gather in Paris to strengthen the Reactive Monitoring process
ICCROM - International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
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July 10, 2025
From 7 to 9 July, the 7th edition of the World Heritage Site Managers' Forum took place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, alongside the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee. This year’s Forum brought together 18 site managers...
2025 Copa América Femenina Group B Preview: Brazil And Colombia Set To Do Battle
Forbes
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The two finalists from the last edition of the Copa América Femenina are both in Group B this time ... More around. (Photo by Gabriel Aponte/Getty Images)Getty Images Record champions Brazil and rising force Colombia are the two outright favorites...
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Chelsea midfielder Caicedo hints at injury status ahead of Club World Cup final
Sports Mole
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Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo seemingly hints at his injury status ahead of the Club World Cup final with a post on social media. Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has seemingly provided an injury update ahead of Sunday's Club World Cup final....
Prison Break Sparks Controversy and Arrests in Ecuador
The Cuenca Dispatch
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June 23, 2025
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Extortion alerts surge in Ecuador as criminal activity escalates
The Cuenca Dispatch
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June 23, 2025
Well, here we are again—another week, another massive failure of Ecuador’s justice system. It’s like a bad reality TV show that you can’t stop watching, except instead of glamorous people and dramatic catfights, we have judges releasing murderers,...
Compulsory Voting Is Needed to Combat ‘Disastrously Low’ UK Turnout, Report Argues
Byline Times
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July 10, 2025
Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features Keir Starmer’s Government should introduce “Australian-style” compulsory voting to combat the...
Nigeria, Rwanda among 34 African countries hit as Ecuador revokes visa-free transit
Business Insider Africa
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June 22, 2025
Ecuador has announced the cancellation of visa-free transit privileges for citizens of 45 nations, including 34 African countries, in a significant tightening of its immigration and border control policies. Under the new directive abolishing...
Ecuador to probe income of judges who free criminal suspects
Inquirer
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June 14, 2025
Ecuador said Friday it will probe the finances of any judge or prosecutor who releases a suspected violent criminal, amid allegations of bribery frustrating the government’s fight against organized crime. Once-peaceful Ecuador averaged a killing...
Ecuador asks Unicef for help tackling criminal gangs recruiting minors
MercoPress
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Saturday, June 14th 2025 - 10:54 UTC “El reclutamiento forzado o inducido de niños, niñas y adolescentes es un problema complejo”, afirmó Pinto Ecuadorean authorities asked the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) for...
Ecuador’s tuna fishers decry government initiative to cut diesel subsidies
SeafoodSource
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Ecuador President Daniel Noboa announced at the beginning of June that his government would be eliminating a diesel subsidy for the tuna sector. In a recent press conference, government spokeswoman Carolina Jaramillo said that Ecuadorian...
Moisés Caicedo’s return to training gives Chelsea boost before Club World Cup final
The Guardian
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July 10, 2025
Chelsea have been handed a major boost by Moisés Caicedo returning to training before the Club World Cup final, raising hopes that the midfielder will recover from an ankle injury in time to face Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday. Enzo Maresca was...
Rolando Federico Gómez Quinde, presunto líder del grupo criminal Las Águilas, se fuga de una cárcel de Ecuador
KVIA - Texas
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June 22, 2025
Por Ana María Cañizares y Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español Rolando Federico Gómez Quinde, alias “Fede”, presunto líder del grupo criminal Las Águilas, se fugó este viernes del Centro de Privación de Libertad Número 1, ubicado en la ciudad de...
6 key points about Ecuador’s new transit visa policy affecting Nigerians, 44 others
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
Ecuador has revised its immigration policy, ending visa-free airport transits for passport holders from 45 countries, including Nigeria and Ghana. The new rule, confirmed by Ecuadorian immigration authorities and reported by TravelBiz, took effect...
Full List: Ecuador ends visa-free transit for Nigeria, Ghana, 43 others
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
Ecuador has announced the immediate cancellation of visa-free airport transit privileges for citizens of 45 countries. Under the new directive, travellers from these countries must now obtain a Visa de Transeúnte (Transit Visa) before passing...
LATAM Reports 235 Cases of Yellow Fever
Cuban News Agency
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July 10, 2025
Havana, July 9 (ACN) Latin America and the Caribbean have reported 235 Yellow Fever cases with a 41 percent lethality, according to Costa Rica’s Health Office, based on data of the Pan-American Health Organization. Most affected countries are...
Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 strikes near coast of Ecuador, GFZ says
The Malaysian Star
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June 21, 2025
(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck near the coast of Ecuador on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 44 km (27.34 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru)
International demand for pineapple juice grows
Fresh Plaza
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July 10, 2025
Demand for pineapple juice and the growth of markets such as Israel and Dubai are boosting Costa Rican exports, despite production limitations due to weather conditions. According to Álvaro Figueroa, president of the Tropicales del Valle company,...
Ecuador hits “historic milestone” in April shrimp exports
SeafoodSource
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Ecuador hit an all-time high for April exports of shrimp this year, sending 254 million pounds of shrimp abroad during the month, up 3.1 percent compared to the 246 million pounds the country shipped in the same month of 2024. The value of those...