Ecuador

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

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

Moscow has partially prohibited imports from Quito under suspicion that the Soviet-origin weapons to be exchanged with Washington for ‘modern’ materiel will end up in Ukraine

Paola Roldán is pleased that now she will not have to flee her country to have a dignified death

The mushroom was named after Paul Stamets, the most famous mycologist in the world

A study published in ‘PLOS One’ that various Ecuadorian scientists participated in warns of the high levels of contamination in the penguins’ ecosystem

Two children were murdered every day in 2023 in Ecuador, which is suffering a wave of violence due to drug trafficking: ‘The state, society, and family, we have all failed them,’ says an expert