The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has announced that he will return to Caracas on Monday. He called on the people to massively demonstrate on that occasion, in a message on...
On the Galapagos island of Fernandina a giant tortoise has been found that would have been extinct for more than 100 years. This is reported by the Ecuadorian Minister for the Environment Marcelo Mata. The minister placed on...
The Ecuadorian prosecutor is going to sue former president Rafael Correa for the failed kidnapping of opposition politician Fernando Balda in 2012. Judge Daniella Camacho announced on Wednesday that there is enough evidence that Correa was the supposed brain behind the kidnapping attempt to start a trial against him.
Ecuador will no longer mediate with the British government in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent six years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 'We are neither Mr. Assange's lawyers nor representatives of the British government,' Foreign Minister José Valencia told Reuters on Tuesday. 'Ecuador has no responsibility whatsoever to take further steps.'
In a bus accident in the Andes mountains in Ecuador at least eleven people were killed. Among the dead is a baby of less than a year old. In addition, at least 37 people were injured, reports the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
The Ecuadorian government creates a humanitarian corridor for refugees from Venezuela. Through this corridor, the refugees are taken to the border with Peru by buses. Many Venezuelans try to travel on foot through the Andes country to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
Ecuador has declared a state of emergency because of the unusually large number of Venezuelan migrants crossing the northern border with Colombia. The Venezuelans flee their country because of the economic crisis.
The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has decided that the extra security that is stationed at the embassy in London is immediately lifted. At the Embassy of Ecuador, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been living in exile for almost six years. For example, the Australian tries to prevent extradition to Sweden, where he has been charged with assault.
Ecuadorians have determined by a referendum on Sunday that the president can only stay in office for two terms. This in particular prevents a return of former President Rafael Correa.
A shooting in a bar in the Colombian town of Yarumal in the province of Antioquia has killed seven people. According to the police, five armed persons entered the premises and the fire opened to the customers. She suspects that it is about reckoning in the criminal circuit.
After five years of bivouacing at the embassy of Ecuador in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received a citizen service number from the South American country. Since Wednesday he is in the Ecuadorian population register with the number 1729926483. But whether he also got the nationality of the country is unclear. As well as what this means for the extradition issue.
The Colombian government and rebel group ELN have indicated that they want to extend the current truce. That said the Ecuadorian minister María Fernanda Espinosa (Foreign Affairs) in the run-up to the expiration of the cease-fire.
The Ecuadorian government is thinking to expel WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the embassy in London after he has been in a fight with President Lenin Moreno via Twitter.
The Vice President of Ecuador was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence on Wednesday. He was on trial for accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Twenty crew members of a Chinese ship have been convicted in Ecuador for years of cell punishment. The authorities previously caught the Chinese in the Galapagos Islands with about 300 tonnes of extinct extinct or endangered species on board, including about 6600 sharks.
Scientists have discovered a very special frog in the jungle of Ecuador. The skin on the abdomen and breast of the tiny animal is translucent, which makes the organs of the frog visible.
The government of Ecuador asked the United Kingdom on Friday to give WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a liberation to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange could then get asylum in the South American country.
The presidential elections in Ecuador have been won by the leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno Garcés. According to the electoral council has 51 percent of the vote. 94 percent of the votes counted.
The final results of the presidential elections on Sunday in Ecuador late in coming. The army has warned not to accept irregularities, reported El Comercio newspaper Tuesday.
The second largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has paved the way with the release of a kidnapped politician for peace negotiations with the government.
Ecuador is the second time within a day hit by an earthquake. The second quake, measuring Wednesday at the end of the morning (local time) took place, was with a magnitude of 6.8 a fraction more powerful than that of a few hours earlier, US seismologists report. The epicenter was again just northwest of the capital Quito, near to that of the previous quake.
The number of people according to the authorities, was killed in the earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 413. Also, definitely got more than 2,600 people injured in the quake on Saturday night.
The number of people killed by the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday, has risen to certainly 350. More than 2000 people were injured by the quake, which had a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. President Rafael Correa said Monday he fears that the death toll will rise further.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday, has risen to 272. The president of the South American country, Rafael Correa Delgado, has said this on the night of Sunday to Monday. It is feared that the death toll continues to rise. More than 2527 people were injured.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday, has risen to 233. The president of the South American country, Rafael Correa Delgado, said this Sunday. It is feared that the death toll continues to rise.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday will advance rapidly. The counter is now at 77 dead and more than five hundred wounded, said Vice President Jorge Glass. The government expects the death toll during Sunday continues to rise.
At least 28 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake off the coast of Ecuador. The death toll is likely to rise further. Saturday night around 20:00 (local time) an earthquake was of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale measured.
