the future of Petroleum in Ecuador is being played in an unprecedented and historic national plebiscite that will decide this Sunday whether to stop exploiting one of its main oil deposits, in a vote where environmentalists want to give the world an example of protecting the amazon through the popular vote and the oil tankers […]
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Ecuador: next president will have to face security crisis
Until a few years ago Ecuador It was considered by its inhabitants a country of peace. Now Ecuadorians have a shared slogan for the president who wins the elections next sunday: security. Delinquency and organized crime have turned the territory of the Andean country into a space without tranquility in the last three years, with […]
The ten keys to the Ecuadorian elections
Ecuador will hold its extraordinary presidential and legislative elections this Sunday, immersed in a deep and complex security crisis that had one of its most tragic episodes with the recent assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians are summoned to the polls to elect the new members of the Presidency, […]
Bulletproof vests and vehicles: the boom of the security industry in Ecuador
a factory of Quito It is not enough to serve the dozens of cars waiting their turn to be transformed into dark glass battleships. Their owners paid fortunes to shield them from the violence of drug trafficking that grows alongside the security industry in Ecuador. Mostly high-end trucks arrive at the workshop, where workers tear […]
The Ecuadorian authority accepts the candidacy of the substitute for the assassinated presidential candidate
The electoral authority of Ecuador gave free rein to the presidential aspirations of Christian Zurita, the replacement of the assassinated political leader, by dismissing an appeal filed by the ex-president’s leftist force Rafael Correa to prevent his candidacy. Correísmo claimed that Zurita appeared registered with the center-right Renovación Total (Reto) party and not with Construye, […]
Yaku Pérez, the “ecosocial” indigenous man who wants his revenge in the Ecuadorian elections
Yaku Pérez, the indigenous politician of the Kichwa Kañari people who two years ago disrupted the presidential elections in Ecuador By staying at the gates of the second round, he seeks revenge with his proposal “ecosocial”which he presents as an alternative to the right and the correísmo. At the age of 54, Yaku Pérez (Cachipucara, […]
Villavicencio, the face of the wave of murders in Ecuador
Fernando Villavicenciothe candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador assassinated last Wednesday, he has become the most recognizable face of the wave of murders that in recent months has taken the lives of politicians, prosecutors, judges and prison directors, without distinguishing positions or ideologies. The murder of Villavicencio, at the hands of alleged Colombian hitmen, has […]
What do Ecuadorians vote this coming Sunday?
Ecuador An electoral week begins this Monday that will culminate on Sunday with a new appointment at the polls, where Ecuadorians are summoned to decide on four issues: a new president, a new National Assembly (Parliament) and two plebiscites on Petroleum and mining. After electoral day on February 5, when the local elections were held, […]
Ecuador: Prosecutor’s Office defends Odebrecht case ruling after Brazilian court ruling
The Attorney General’s Office Ecuador defended the sentence obtained from the case odebrecht by the Ecuadorian Justice, after in Brazil the Federal Supreme Court annulled the evidence used against Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the presidential term of Rafael Correa. In a statement, the Public Ministry stated that there is a “intention […]
FBI arrives in Ecuador to support investigations into the crime of Fernando Villavicencio
A US federal police team arrived in Ecuador to support the investigations being carried out by the police authorities and the prosecutor’s office to determine the responsibilities in the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicenciothe South American country’s interior minister said on Sunday. Villavicencio, a former congressman and former corruption investigative journalist, was shot […]