The highway project for the future Guayaquil airport (Ecuador), which would involve the construction of a tunnel under a nature reserve, generated controversy and a confrontation between the city’s mayor, Aquiles Álvarez, and the environmental activist and former candidate for vice president Andrea González Náder. The area under controversy is the Cerro Blanco Protective Foresta […]
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Ecuador foresees 5,000 additional barrels of oil with new wells in the Amazon
Ecuador foresees additional production of about 5,000 barrels of Petroleum additional per day until the end of 2024, thanks to the drilling of nine wells on a platform in the Amazon province of Orellana. The state company Petroecuador reported this Thursday that its technicians began drilling the first of those nine wells in the Sacha […]
Ecuador will lead Latin American tourism offer as an associated country in Fitur 2024
Ecuador will lead as an associated country the Latin American tourism offer at the International Tourism Fair of Madrid, Fitur, which will be held from tomorrow until Sunday in the Spanish capital and will become the largest exhibitor in Europe of the region’s proposals for 2024 for five days. The presence of the Ecuadorian president, […]
Fitur celebrates a record edition in the midst of the tourism sector taking off after the pandemic
Madrid starting tomorrow, Wednesday, it will host the 44th edition of the tourism fair Fitur, the first in the world in the sector by number of attendees and participants, and which this year anticipates record numbers in the midst of the industry’s takeoff after the pandemic. On this occasion, the Ifema exhibition center dedicates nine […]
Ecuador receives help from the US to confront the fight against violence
A plane USA with help to confront the fight against violence unleashed by criminal organizations came to Ecuadorit was officially reported on Tuesday, while the authorities assured that the siege on the fugitive leader of the largest gang in the country is tightening. Admiral Jaime Vela, head of the joint command of the Armed Forces, […]
Noboa suggests extending the closure period of a key deposit to finance internal conflict
The president of EcuadorDaniel Noboa, suggested this Monday the possibility of extending for one more year the deadline to cease exploitation of the Block 43-ITT oil field, one of the most productive in the country, located in the Amazonian Yasuní National Park, as was widely voted majority in 2023 in a national plebiscite. Noboa launched […]
CAN countries create Andean Security Network to confront transnational crime
The countries that make up the Andean Community (CAN), Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peruagreed this Sunday to carry out coordinated police and military operations against organized crime in their border areas. “Carry out coordinated police and/or military operations in the shortest possible time, when appropriate, in the border areas of the Member Countries, in order […]
Delegation of senior US representatives will visit Ecuador starting this Monday
The Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas, Christopher Dodd, will lead a delegation from the Government of USA, who will visit Ecuador between tomorrow and next Thursday, the US Embassy in Quito. The delegation will also be made up of the Commander of the United States Southern Command (Southcom), Army General Laura Richardson, and the […]
Noboa and Bukele: a tough hand against crime in different realities
The war flag against violence is the same: a heavy hand displayed with images of half-naked prisoners, tied and subdued in prisons. However the Ecuador of President Daniel Noboa has little to do with El Salvador Nayib Bukele. The strategy of businessmen and now rulers is similar, but in different contexts, analysts maintain. The Ecuadorian […]
Houses, vehicles and even armored clothing in Ecuador in the face of a growing wave of violence
The murder of prosecutor César Suárez This Wednesday afternoon in Guayaquil is just the tip of the iceberg of the violence that Ecuador suffers, where one person dies every 69 minutes due to insecurity, which has turned the shielding of clothing, vehicles, houses and offices into a growing need to feel safe. The figures are […]