In December 2023, a United Nations report revealed that Ecuador hit rock bottom last year and ended with a violent death rate of more than 40 per 100,000 inhabitants, making it the most violent country in Latin America. And in Ecuador almost every hour a person dies in a context of criminal violence, indicated the […]
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Rafael Correa offers support to Noboa and suggests more police on the streets of Ecuador
The former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa offered his support to the president Daniel Noboagiven the day of terror that the country has experienced by criminal groups that have set vehicles on fire, kidnapped agents and even occupied a television channel with weapons. “All the support of President Noboa,” Correa wrote on his X network account […]
President of Ecuador faces his first crisis due to the onslaught of drug trafficking
Kidnappings of police, two bosses escaped from prison, riots in prisons and attacks with explosives in the streets: the drug trafficking puts the president in check Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, in his first crisis after assuming power in November. For two days now, the South American country has been experiencing nights of terror. Seven police officers […]
Criminals enter the University of Guayaquil and try to kidnap people
The University of Guayaquil Ecuador reported that the suspension of his academic activities, after armed individuals entered their facilities and threatened to take students and teachers hostage. Videos taken from the school campus were shared on social networks. In these you can see students running trying to take shelter, after allegedly armed men entered and […]
Violence in Ecuador: another criminal leader escapes from prison after an emergency decree
Ecuador recorded the escape of another criminal leader from a prison in the midst of several acts of violenceincluding vehicle fires and explosions, perpetrated after the government decreed the day before a state of exception and curfew following the escape of a dangerous drug kingpin. The Secretariat for the Care of Persons Deprived of Liberty […]
President of Ecuador declares internal armed conflict and calls for military action
The president of EcuadorDaniel Noboa, recognized in a decree the existence of a “internal armed conflict“in the country and ordered the Armed Forces to carry out military actions”under international humanitarian law and respecting human rights”. The National Court of Justice (CNJ) of Ecuador This Tuesday, he deplored the “offensive of organized crime” in the country, […]
Ecuador: Hooded armed men take over a television channel in live broadcast
Hooded armed men entered the canal this Tuesday television TC, in the city of Guayaquil in the southwest of Ecuador, and subdued his staff during a live broadcast. In the live images, several hooded men with weapons were seen holding channel workers on the floor, demanding that they ask the Police to leave the place […]
Casinos return to the political, and now economic, discussion in Ecuador
The operation of casinos -prohibited in Ecuador according to a popular consultation in 2011 – returns to the political discussion in the country when this possibility is stated in one of the eleven questions of a popular consultation that the head of StateDaniel Noboahas been sent to the Constitutional Court for analysis. “Do you agree […]
President Noboa assures that they are trying to “reset” Ecuador’s economy
The president of EcuadorDaniel Noboa, stated this Thursday that they try “to reset” the country’s economy, attract foreign investment and generate an ecosystem in which there is employment and stability. After mentioning the difficult economic situation that the country faced, Noboa He said that they “They hid many figures” and, upon assuming office on November […]
It is not Colombia: this is the Latin American country where people work the fewest hours per week
In most nations of Latin America, the working day is usually 48 hours a week, a big difference if we compare it with European countries, where people work around 40 hours for the same period of time. However, more and more Latin territories are proposing new legislation that aims to make people work less time. […]