Ecuador

Ecuador’s Vice President Suspended For 150 Days, Tensions With President Escalate Ahead Of 2025 Election

Ecuador's Vice President Veronica Abad has been suspended for 150 days on grounds of an accusation of "unjustified abandonment" of her duties, a move that may be highly relevant in relation to the elections scheduled for 2025. The accusations against Abad are coming while tensions are running high between Abad...

Violence Escalating In Ecuador: Seven killed In Latest Massacre

Ecuador has been experiencing gang-related crimes, violence and massacres in last five years. As it continues to escalates, another grim episode occurred in the western Samborondón municipality of Guayas province on Sunday.  A latest massacre, part of a larger trend of escalating violence, has claimed the lives of seven people....

Ecuador Court Claims Pollution Violates Rights of Quito’s Machángara River

An Ecuadorean court has declared that pollution is an ongoing human rights abuse on the Machángara River which supplies the capital city, Quito. Given the fact that unlike most constitutions in Latin America, Ecuador’s constitution recognizes, natural entities in a given article of the Constitution this ruling was a giant...

Armed Men Storm Live TV Station During Ecuador’s State of Emergency

In a state of emergency in Ecuador, a shocking incident unfolded on live television as armed and hooded individuals interrupted a broadcast on Tuesday at the Guayaquil-based network. The assailants forced studio staff to the floor amid gunshots and yelling, The live stream signal is currently down. Ecuador's National Police...