government of Ecuador

The photographer Misha Vallejo has been documenting a people who live in the Ecuadorean Amazon, the Sarayaku Kichwa, for three years. ... They scored a victory in 2012 when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador's government had wronged them when it granted oil exploration ...

Thousands of people took to the streets in Ecuador Thursday, to march for peace and to pay tribute to the three murdered journalists and four soldiers killed ... Another equally massive demonstration had also been convened by the pro-government movement Alianza Pais and toured from the streets in the ...

Julian Assange has been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the government of Ecuador blocked Assange's internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his lawyers. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since ...

(Washington, DC) – Ecuadorean authorities should conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into credible allegations of political interference in the ... Justice officials told Human Rights Watch that they received repeated calls from the Judiciary Council or other government representatives and that, ...

With concerns mounting over the aftermath of Colombia's peace deal with the FARC rebels, Ecuador's government has announced it will no longer host ... to insecurity along Ecuador's border with Colombia, the most prominent recent example of which was the kidnapping and killing of three Ecuadorean ...

A couple of hours before dawn in Kapawi, a village in a remote corner of the Ecuadorian Amazon, a group of men gather to drink litres of tea made from ... Ecuador's government has argued that roads will improve the Achuar's access to health care and education, so the canoe helps the community prove ...

Ecuador said Wednesday that it is suspending its role as a mediator in peace talks between the Colombian government and that nation's last major rebel army. The decision appeared to have caught off guard Colombia's government, which initially denied having been informed of the decision and then ...

The judgment was issued despite all subsequent remediation and a written commitment by the Ecuadorian government to Chevron to legally remove any ... In January 2017, an Ontario court agreed, and ruled that the Ecuador judgment cannot be enforced against Chevron Canada due to the doctrine of ...

Ecuador has cut Julian Assange's communications with the outside world from its London embassy, where the founder of the whistleblowing WikiLeaks website has been living for nearly six years. The Ecuadorian government said in statement that it had acted because Assange had breached “a written ...

Peace negotiations between Colombia and the ELN started on Feb. 27, 2017, in Quito, Ecuador, but they were called off by President Santos on Jan. 10 after the Colombian government accused ELN fighters carrying out attacks on oil infrastructure and Colombian security forces. Since then, the ELN's Chief ...

A brave group of cryptocurrency investors, Criptoasesores, have just pledged an all-out war on the Ecuadorian government by opening the country's first crypto ATMs in the country's capital. The country's central government has had a firm negative stance on cryptocurrency and has tried strongly to ban it ...

In the last year, the Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 1.7 million hectares - 4.25 million acres - of forest reserves and indigenous territories. The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic ...

Ecuador has more orchid and hummingbird species than Brazil, which is 32 times larger, and more diversity than the entire USA. In the last year, the Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 1.7 million hectares (4.25 million acres) of forest reserves and indigenous territories.

Former Ecuadorian congressman and journalist are declared innocent of disclosure of government information in Chevron case ... at the beginning of 2014 after being taken to court by then-Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa as a result of a journalistic investigation, were declared innocent on Feb.

Members of the PCE during a recent demonstration against U.S. military bases in Ecuador. | Photo: ... The Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) has pledged its support for Venezuela and the May 20 elections, urging the Ecuadorean government and the Organization of American States (OAS) to do the same.

While that concept makes a lot of sense in most parts of the world, the situation is very different in Ecuador. More specifically, the Ecuadorian government has no love lost for Bitcoin and other currencies, as it wants to ban this form of money altogether. All of those efforts have been in vain since 2014, though ...