Since colonial times, Black bodies have been viewed as mere labor, rather than as subjects with full rights. The four Afro-descendant children who were murdered in Ecuador were victims of structural racism. The notion of serving without a master means embracing practices of care and creation that don’t answer to state hierarchies or the market. It’s about serving the community — serving life — without being accountable to visible or invisible patterns
The first anniversary of the forced disappearance of Nehemiah, Steven, Ismael, and Joshua brought together family members and neighbors, who are anxiously awaiting a verdict in the case
As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis
From the United States to the Andes or Brazil, the project brings together portraits of older people living in regions affected by global warming and explains how they are coping with it
The head of UN Women argues that, in the face of political setbacks, the region’s feminist movement offers many reasons for hope
A journey to the world’s third largest exporter of the flowers reveals long working hours, pesticide exposure, illness and oftentimes-dismal wages for laborers
The Manhattan courthouse, where over 1,000 people and recently entire families have been arrested while attending routine appointments, is the epicenter of Trump’s immigration offensive
The US president signs trade agreements with Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador that ‘will bring prices down very quickly’ according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
International cooperation is one of the most successful methods in the fight against drug trafficking, with detection of ships by the US and UK proving fundamental
Roque Sevilla is the first Ecuadorian to receive the International Union for Conservation of Nature award
At least one of the attacks took place off the coast of Colombia, amid escalating tensions between Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro
The president has unsuccessfully tried to quell the social protests with heavy military deployments and economic announcements
Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 950,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela
Murders of minors have risen by 50% in a country wracked by violence and drug trafficking
Renato Ortuño has become the second person to legally claim his right to a dignified death in Ecuador
Gangs that rob gadgets are looking for new ways to extract more value from them. An expert analyzed the work of one organization as it was dismantled by the police
The US Secretary of State will also stop in Ecuador to advance his government’s ‘key priorities’ in the region
Doctors report that the health system is experiencing one of its worst crises due to budget cuts and a lack of supplies
What was once a free municipal procedure in the city of Guayaquil is now a shadow business without state control
In the Kamchatka region, the Pacific plate moves eight centimeters each year, causing major earthquakes such as a magnitude 9.0 in 1952
The earthquake, measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale and with its epicenter on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has placed nations including Japan, the United States, Mexico, and Chile on alert
His extradition is being viewed as a victory by the Daniel Noboa administration, but it also evidences a lack of confidence in the local justice system
José Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared gang Los Choneros, is the first local drug kingpin to be handed over. His trial is raising expectations in Ecuador over the potential revelations that could emerge in the courtroom
Indigenous teachers pass on their native language at Michigan State University as a way to resist cultural displacement
EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.
President Daniel Noboa announces the end of a 17-month manhunt that exposed the vulnerability of the country’s security and prisons system
Solanda, south of Ecuador’s capital, is experiencing a wave of murders as a result of turf wars between criminal organizations
