UN Experts Condemn Excessive Use of Force in Ecuador Protest Crackdown

An indigenous girl during the protests in Otavalo, Ecuador, Oct. 2025. X/ @PdPagina October 24, 2025 Hour: 11:54 am On Friday, nine United Nations experts and rapporteurs denounced the disproportionate use of force in the actions taken by...

The three attempts to poison Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador

Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador, is in the news not for the political sphere, but because he has been "the victim of an attempted poisoning", as the president himself indicated in an interview with CNN last Thursday. Noboa said this was when he...

Ecuador’s Indigenous alliance ends highway-blocking protests after military threat

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The Indigenous alliance that organized demonstrations blocking highways in Ecuador over the past month said Wednesday it was ending the protest following President Daniel Noboa ’s threat to use the military to clear...

Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Ends National Strike After Deadly Crackdown

Citizens protest in front of the military in Ecuador, Oct. 2025. X/ @ElOrienteEc October 22, 2025 Hour: 2:02 pm On Wednesday, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) announced the end of the national strike that began a...

Ecuador suspends Quito Metro extension design tender

Irregularities halt a consultancy tender for an extension to Line 1 just as the contract is about to be awarded. ECUADOR’s National Public Procurement Service (Sercop) has suspended a tender for detailed engineering studies of an extension to the...

Ecuador marks a month of protests

Led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the demonstration began on September 22, rejecting the elimination of diesel subsidy, which raised the price from 1.80 dollars to 2.80 dollars per gallon. As the weeks...

UN experts alarmed by escalating repression and deteriorating civic space in Ecuador

OHCHR GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed concern about a serious deterioration of fundamental freedoms and civic space and the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador, which has been deepened by the State response to the national protests, and...

LDU Quito 3-0 Palmeiras, Copa Libertadores 2025 Semi-Final Leg 1: Dominant First-Half Display Seals Win For Ecuadorians

Football LDU Quito sealed a commanding 3-0 win over Palmeiras in the first leg of the Copa Libertadores 2025 semi-final at Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado in Quito on Thursday, October 23. The hosts used the home momentum and altitude to devastating...

Ecuador rejects prosecution of survivor of US strike on vessel

Prosecutors in Ecuador have decided not to charge a man who survived a U.S. military attack in the Caribbean Sea last week and have already released him, according to an Ecuadorian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the...

Ecuador releases survivor of strike on submersible

QUITO, Ecuador -- The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a...

LDU Quito 3-0 Palmeiras, Copa Libertadores 2025 Semi-Final Leg 1: Ecuadorian Side Seal Big Win Against Favourites

The Ecuadorian side played better since kick-off. The Rodrigo Paz Delgado Stadium, situated over 2,800 metres (9,200 feet) above sea level, offered a valuable home advantage. LDU Quito had already squandered several opportunities when Gabriel...

Ecuador: Terror and Violence Threatens Positive Ecosocial Legacy

Ecuador has inspired the world. It was the first country to enshrine the rights of Nature in the constitution as a response to ecological breakdown. It also oriented its constitution toward buen vivir, an understanding of a good life with...

Poisoned chocolate, chemical-laced jam: Ecuador president claims 'assassination attempt' made against him

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Thursday revealed that an unknown person tried to poison him with a chocolate and a jam laced with chemicals at a public event. A complaint has been filed by the military body responsible for Daniel Noboa's...

Ecuador says there is no evidence of crime by survivor of US Caribbean attack

THERE is no evidence that the survivor of a US attack on a submersible vessel in the Caribbean was involved in transporting drugs, authorities in Ecuador said on Monday. The survivor of the US attack, identified as Andres Fernando Tufino, was...

Liga de Quito golea a Palmeiras y acaricia final de Copa Libertadores

Con una exhibición de intensidad y variantes ofensivas en el primer tiempo, Liga de Quito arrolló el jueves 3-0 a Palmeiras en el partido de ida de las semifinales de la Copa Libertadores. El conjunto ecuatoriano se impuso con los goles de Gabriel...

Noboa dice que el paro en Ecuador se politizó y que los ataques a su caravana “no fueron solo palos y piedras”

Por Fernando del Rincón y Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, defendió su gestión frente al reciente paro nacional convocado por la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) y aseguró a CNN...

Go Fund Yourself Episode 12 Goes from the Skies of Ecuador to the Streets of Augmented Reality

What happens when you mix visionary founders, a dash of drama, and a panel of world-class business titans? You get another exhilarating episode of Go Fund Yourself, the hit entrepreneurial reality show where innovation meets entertainment, and...

Women warriors protect the Amazon forest but fear government plans to increase mining and oil drilling

By Brandi Morin Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her wooden kitchen table. Her fingers, stained with the rich earth...

LDU Quito Vs Palmeiras Highlights, Copa Libertadores Semi-Final Leg 1: Villamil Brace Powers LDU To 3-0 Win

Gabriel Villamil of Ecuador's Liga Deportiva Universitaria, center, celebrates scoring his side's opening goal against Brazil's Palmeiras during a Copa Libertadores semifinal first leg soccer match in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP...

Guayaquil mayor blames Ecuador’s president as drug violence spirals

Guayaquil Mayor Aquiles Alvarez says those who live in his crime-wracked city in Ecuador are living through a 'collective psychosis' - Copyright AFP Photo MARCOS PIN Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs:...