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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday signed the Lima 2026 Presidential Declaration in Lima, agreeing to strengthen bilateral cooperation on security, trade and energy integration.

Diesel supplies are not meeting demand, the Chamber of Petroleum Distributors said Tuesday, forcing gas stations and supply centers to ration sales.

CNN’s recent report from Haiti describes American security entrepreneur Erik Prince helping local police fight gangs with foreign mercenaries, helicopters and exploding drones, and Ecuadorians have good reason to read it closely.

By Mary Cunningham Anthropic is sounding the alarm about a new risk posed by artificial intelligence: Self-replicating “AI worms” could soon infest your “smart” home devices.

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As the Constitutional Court begins its review of the proposed trade agreement between the U.S. and Ecuador, legal experts say some provisions of the deal violate Ecuador’s constitution.

At Ecuador’s Mazar reservoir, stranded boats and threatened crops reveal another side of the electricity crisis.

By Natalia Senanayake Decades ago, the founder of the clothing brand The North Face began acquiring land in Chile with his wife.

Industries and large businesses face a second week of 72-hour electric disconnections as Ecuador’s power crisis continues.

A Catholic priest died Saturday in Guayaquil when a large crucifix fell on him as he was leading mass in Guayaquil.

What is the difference between an attorney, a lawyer, and counsel?

By John Olson Before Driving Miss Daisy became an Academy Award-winning film, it was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

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Former Energy Minister Fernando Santos claims the current energy crisis could have been avoided if the Noboa government had followed through on projects approved and funded by the outgoing Lasso administration.

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Looking back at the Covid years is rather like looking back at a war.

By Breakthrough News staff October 9 will be the last day that Expreso, one of Ecuador’s largest and longest-running newspapers, is distributed in print.

The Colombia Energy Ministry announced Monday that it is ending all electricity transfers to Ecuador.

Ecuador is among the countries in Latin America facing the greatest economic losses from the El Niño, according to a report by the World Bank.

By Michael Torney Asunción is in a pre-gentrified condition with new hotels beside old dirty concrete shells, it’s difficult to know if they’re being built or torn down.

“This is something we have not seen before,” says meteorologist Bolívar Erazo, referring to the high temperatures of Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Ecuador and Peru.

Shortly after seven on a January evening in 2015, a computer at Banco del Austro sent an instruction to Wells Fargo in the United States to the effect: “Send lots of money to Hong Kong and Dubai!”

By Annie Correal and Eric Schmitt In a sign of the Trump administration’s new focus on combating Latin American cartels, the U.S. military has moved a number of MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to Colombia and Ecuador, U.S. officials said.

By Daryl Austin Many of us can relate to tripping while climbing stairs, slipping on a wet floor or misjudging the height of a curb.

Beginning October 6, privately purchased equipment that generates and stores electric power will be exempt from the Value Added Tax (VAT), import fees and the tax on the ISD tax.

The National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) has declared a state of emergency in Muisne and Eloy Alfaro cantons in Esmeraldas Province following two weeks of heavy rain.

Tom was drinking his morning coffee when Elaine opened the refrigerator.

By Nathan Strout U.S.

Weekend rains increased electric generation at the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant west of Quito.

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Three times they prepared to hang John Lee, but three times the trapdoor refused to open.

Only a day after the Energy Ministry extended 24-hour electric disconnections for large energy consumers to 48 hours, it extended them again to 72 hours.

Ecuadorian immigration authorities ordered the deportation of Swedish programmer and digital-rights activist Ola Bini early Friday, barring him from returning to the country for 10 years after the government revoked his visa on national-security grounds.

By Tom Metcalfe An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured in one of history’s great anthropological debates.

The government announced this week it will proceed with trials against 88 crew members of five fishing vessels bombed by U.S.

Quite a lot, actually I have been watching the revived version of Time Team on YouTube, including an episode in which a small group of archaeologists investigates a mysterious standing stone in a cleared forest in Derbyshire, England.

By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Sometimes a miserable bout of diarrhea is caused by nothing more than nerves or a 24-hour stomach bug.

By Marina Wright and Ricardo Pérez Ecuador’s government and oil executives are gathering this week for the XXI Encuentro Anual de Petróleo y Gas (ENAEP 2026), the country’s premier oil and gas summit, to push for new investment, increased production, and…

The government is extending the disconnections of large electricity consumers from 24 to 48 hours a week.

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By Michael Torney Buenos Aires is a capital city swarming with 20-storey buildings that glower over the narrow one-way streets, the other lane often occupied by restaurant terraces.

By Dan Restrepo and Ricardo Zuniga Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their countries.

In an analysis of the impact of El Niño, the Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs reported Tuesday that Ecuador will suffer the largest social and financial losses in Latin America.

A medieval monastery needed more than prayer.

The United States has placed visa restrictions on citizens of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, who it accuses of having contributed, through practices of corruption or drug trafficking activities, to weaken governments that emerged from the polls and…

The light to moderate rain that fell in Cuenca Saturday night and Sunday will provide temporary relief for the Mazar reservoir but engineers at the hydroelectric complex said the drop in water level is likely to resume early this week.

Tom walked into Carlos’s bakery carrying a large umbrella in one hand and a blue water container in the other.

By Sheera Frenkel OpenAI said on Monday that it would not release its newest artificial intelligence model because of security concerns raised by its researchers, in the company’s latest move to slow down the pace of its technology.