Ecuador
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LIFE
Amazon River’s Dark Secrets Emerge When Shuar Fishers Become Scientists Together
On Ecuador’s Santiago River, an Indigenous village mapped fish life science ignored. With cameras, nets, and a phone app, Kaputna’s…
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SPORTS
Ecuador Mourns A Defender As Guayaquil’s Violence Reaches Football
Mario Pineida, 33, was killed in an armed attack in northern Guayaquil, and his partner died with him. Barcelona SC…
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ANALYSIS
Ecuador On Edge As Noboa Balances War, Austerity, And Power
Two years into his presidency, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa faces his first political defeat, rising violence and public anger over austerity,…
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LIFE
Ancestral Land vs. a Prison State: The Huancavilca Commune’s Battle in Coastal Ecuador
In the lowlands of Ecuador's Santa Elena province, where the air smells of salt and dry forest resin, the Huancavilca…
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LIFE
Ecuador’s Hidden Guardians Chart a Future the World Can’t See
Along the Bobonaza River in Ecuador's Pastaza province, the Kichwa families of Pakayaku move by canoe and patrol with spears,…
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ECONOMY
Ecuador’s Boiling Point: Diesel, Dissent, and a Fight for the Nation’s Soul
Three weeks of bus strikes and farm roadblocks have pushed Ecuador to the edge. After President Daniel Noboa scrapped the…
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LIFE
The Colombian Farmer Who Taught Ecuador How to Taste Its Own Coffee
On a misty ridge near Quito, a Colombian migrant turned farmer built Finca Frajares into a living classroom for Ecuador’s…
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ANALYSIS
Ecuador’s Democracy on Edge as Anger and Austerity Collide
When Ecuador’s young president, Daniel Noboa, set out for a quiet rural town this week, he expected a ribbon-cutting ceremony.…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Ecuador’s Amber Windows Rewrite the Story of Flowers, Insects, and Where Life’s Partnerships Began
For more than a century, the tale of how flowers and insects struck their great evolutionary bargain has been told…
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AMERICAS
Ecuador’s Posorja Port Becomes Europe’s Cocaine Doorway Despite Scanners
A $1.2 billion terminal was meant to shield Ecuador's coast from traffickers. Instead, cocaine seizures have tripled, homicides have soared,…
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