Ecuador Archives

Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas, who was serving prison time for receiving bribes from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, is surrounded by reporters after his release from prison in Quito on November 28, 2022

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Mexico asks for jailed Ecuador ex-VP’s relocation over health concerns

Mexico said Monday it had asked that Ecuador’s detained former vice president Jorge Glas be allowed to go to a third country due to...

AFPAugust 5, 2024

A man clears out the belongings of a drug trafficking gang which had taken over his home

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Pay up or move out: Drug gangs rob Ecuadorans of homes

The family recently got its home back after it was recovered by security forces in the city of Duran.

AFPAugust 5, 2024

The Hualcopo sails in pristine waters that are home to iguanas, turtles, fish and birds that exist only in the Galapagos

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Off Ecuador’s Galapagos, a former shark-poaching ship’s new mission

When Ecuador’s navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many...

AFPJuly 23, 2024

Supporters of Fernando Villavicencio shout slogans as they await sentencing for five suspects in the murderer of the former Ecuadoran presidential candidate on July 12, 2024

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Five handed hefty jail terms for 2023 murder of Ecuador candidate

An Ecuadorian court sentenced a gang member to nearly 35 years in prison Friday for plotting and ordering from his cell the murder of...

AFPJuly 12, 2024

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Hefty jail terms for suspects in 2023 murder of Ecuador candidate

Five suspects in the assassination of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, shot dead last year just before the country’s election, were handed hefty prison...

AFPJuly 12, 2024

A fisherman looks at a colleague painting a boat on the beach at the Santa Rosa fishing port in Salinas, Ecuador, in June 2024

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‘If you protest, you die’: drug gangs recruit Ecuador’s fishermen

With its idyllic, hotel-dotted coast, Ecuador’s beach town of Salinas is the setting of a brutal war that most tourists never get to see....

AFPJuly 11, 2024

Cocoa prices skyrocketed in March after a poor harvest in West Africa, and remain at record-highs since partially sliding back

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Hot cocoa prices bring sweet profits, danger to Ecuador producers

Julia Avellan had been tempted to quit the cocoa business before prices unexpectedly exploded on the international market this year, bringing historic profits to...

AFPJune 25, 2024

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa speaks during the launch of construction of a maximum security prison for 800 prisoners in the coastal town of Santa Elena

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Ecuador starts building prison for narco bosses

Ecuador on Friday began building an 800-person maximum security prison that will house the most dangerous drug lords in the country which has declared...

AFPJune 21, 2024