Ecuador

More than half of the cases are located in Colombia, and the rest in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, the United States, Mexico, and Venezuela

PhD candidate Marta Miñarro discovered a rare specimen that lays large eggs and cares for its tadpoles once they hatch

The decision by Daniel Noboa’s government comes after statements by Colombian president Gustavo Petro, who called former Ecuadorian VP Jorge Glas a ‘political prisoner’

More than 200,000 passengers a day travel underground in Ecuador’s capital. Above ground, the city has begun to revive

A genetic analysis finds that nearly 47.42% of corvina samples collected from various markets contain shark meat 

The arrest of ‘Lobo Menor’ in the Mexican capital sheds light on the criminal relationship between the three countries, connected to cocaine trafficking

The Colombian president claimed there were 27 charred bodies on the border, drawing a denial from Daniel Noboa, who said narco-terrorist groups were being targeted

Witnesses and dozens of messages prove that a security company based in southern Spain spied on the founder of WikiLeaks, as revealed by EL PAÍS

Jonathan Obando, a Colombian citizen, survived one of the 41 deadly attacks conducted by Washington against alleged drug-trafficking boats. His father tells his son’s story for the first time

Drug trafficking is transforming the Los Ríos and El Oro regions into zones of homicides, kidnappings, and extortion

The YouTuber has uploaded a video in which he shows off having built up to 10 education centers on three different continents

Nearly 30,000 minors have crossed into the U.S. in the last decade, pushed by violence and faced with an increasingly hostile migratory policy

Once at the helm of the city of Mérida, he now faces possible deportation to Ecuador, where he has no ties, despite having gone through the legal asylum process in the US

The Democratic Socialists of America candidate promises to fight against Donald Trump’s policies: ‘I am ready to defend my immigrant community, even if it requires putting my body in the line of fire’

The five-year-old remains in a center with his father in Texas. His case has reignited the debate about the conditions of juvenile detention in the United States

Los Choneros, the reigning criminal organization in Manabí, Ecuador, is linked to shark hunting and finning, complimentary activities to its primary trade of drug and fuel trafficking

William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, head of Los Tiguerones, was released from prison after a deadline to file pre-extradition safeguards expired. ‘The legal authority decided to set a terrorist free in Spanish territory,’ said Ecuador’s interior minister

A book that compiles the recovery of ancestral recipes from the Americas, from Canada to the Amazon, maps strategies in the face of climate change and agribusiness

Community leaders denounce environmental damage, restricted movement, and militarization following the launch of one of the Ecuadorian government’s flagship projects

The assassination of footballer Mario Pineida exposes the growing violence in Ecuador, where sports betting mafias have made players targets for hitmen

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