Ecuador
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AMERICAS
Ecuador’s ‘El León’ Lands in New York, but His Narco Empire Still Roars at Home
He once ruled a prison like a five-star hotel, but this week, Ecuador's most feared drug lord, José Adolfo "Fito"…
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How Colombia and Ecuador Are Rewriting Law to Listen to Nature Itself
In Colombia and Ecuador, rivers and forests can now sue for their survival. By granting ecosystems legal rights, two Andean…
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ANALYSIS
Untold Silence: How Latin America’s Bloodshed Became Background Noise
From Ecuador's exploding homicide rate to Haiti's near-total collapse, Latin America's bloodshed is real, rising, and relentlessly ignored. As our…
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AMERICAS
Dynamite Buried in the Rainforest: Ecuador’s Explosive Indigenous Betrayal
In the depths of Ecuador’s Amazon, children chase each other across the forest floor—blissfully unaware that beneath their feet lie…
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AMERICAS
Untold Details of Ecuador’s Marble-Bunker Takedown and the Cocaine War Still Raging
Just before sunrise on June 19, Ecuadorian commandos smashed marble tiles inside a seaside mansion and dragged the country’s most…
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LIFE
In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood
Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but…
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AMERICAS
Fito’s Fall: Ecuador’s Drug War Hits a Turning Point
At dawn in the coastal city of Manta, soldiers stormed a marble-clad mansion—and ended the six-month flight of Adolfo “Fito”…
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LIFE
Ecuador Solstice Warriors Dance Harvest and History in Cotacachi
Drumbeats bounced off sun-bleached peaks in Cotacachi, Ecuador, on Tuesday as thousands of Kichwa men and women poured into the…
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ANALYSIS
Ecuador Must Deny Soldiers’ Impunity for Killing Guayaquil Children
When 11-year-old Steven Medina and three teenage friends vanished after a December military roundup in Guayaquil, Ecuador's army claimed it…
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Ecuador Confronts Crime, Debt, And Jobs As Noboa Seeks Stability
President Daniel Noboa begins a full term facing three problems that keep most Ecuadorians up at night: violent gangs, strained…
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