In an 11-question referendum, the president fared worse on two economic issues, but received backing to allow the Armed Forces to carry out operations with the police without needing to declare a state of emergency
The majority of 11 questions posed to voters focus on tightening security measures
William J. Burns invoked the agency’s statutory privileges to avoid giving a New York judge details of the spying operation that was revealed by EL PAÍS in 2019
President Daniel Noboa has suspended work and school on Thursday and Friday, and accuses the outgoing energy minister of having hidden the problem
In under a year, two mayors and four councilors have been killed, while another 30 local officials faced threats and assassination attempts
The attack on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador highlights a turbulent panorama in which diplomatic crises and bilateral tensions threaten regional integration
Mexico will take Ecuador embassy raid to the International Court of Justice and asks the United Nations to suspend the Andean nation
Judges deemed the arrest ordered by President Noboa to be arbitrary, but they also denied a request by Glas’ defense to take him out of La Roca prison and send him back to the diplomatic mission
Daniel Noboa’s government described Jorge Glas’ asylum at Mexican legation as a provocation and justified the assault as a necessary step to prevent impunity
The former Ecuadorian vice-president, arrested after the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, has pursued his career in parallel with the ex-president in foreign exile
Congress is rearming itself around an opposition bloc, arising from its rejection of President Daniel Noboa’s decision to order the raid to detain former vice-president Jorge Glas
The former vice president has been transferred to a prison in Guayaquil reserved for the most dangerous criminals
Officers entered the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito on Friday night to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas
Ecuadorian police forces burst into the site with armored cars and arrested former vice president Jorge Glas, who is convicted in two cases of corruption and had been granted political asylum by Mexico. President López Obrador has described the assault as a ‘flagrant violation of international law and sovereignty’
The Mexican president suggested that his Ecuadorian counterpart Daniel Noboa was elected due to the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio
The climate crisis’ impacts on major African producers has seen cocoa prices soar by over 150%
The recent killings have once again focused attention on the strategy of Daniel Noboa’s government to combat an epidemic of violence in the country
An Ecuadorian program established 20 years ago and recently implemented by a British county sets the standard for basin conservation models
The organization 1800 Migrante claims that a police raid caused the migrants to flee and regain their freedom. The criminal group tried to get money from the families of the people being held
Eight women’s organizations launch the National Just Freedom Movement to fight for the legalization of abortion and file a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court
Three sources told EL PAÍS that officials are taking samples from prisoners, claiming it helps with identification in case of violent death
Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal failed to heed warnings after the 2022 world championships held in Eugene, Oregon, to improve no-notice testing ahead of the 2023 edition, the Athletics Integrity Unit said
In 2023, 100,000 kilos of cocaine were seized in Spain. According to police sources, this was more than double what was confiscated the previous year. The reasons for the drug avalanche are on the other side of the Atlantic
In the face of multiple global crises that disproportionately affect women, integrating the commitment to inclusion and equity into public budget planning in Latin America and the Caribbean is key for regional development
The testimony of a protected witness indicates that the logistics of the murder committed last August in Quito were in the hands of members of the Lobos gang while they languished in Cotopaxi prison
EL PAÍS visited one of the penitentiaries that President Daniel Noboa is trying to control — thus far unsuccessfully — by applying Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s approach
These are some of the lessons that can be learned from three countries with experience of a dollar-based economy if Argentina, Latin America’s third-largest economy, chooses to adopt the currency as legal tender
