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1 week, 2 days ago

Ecuador orders the detention of 16 soldiers charged with the disappearance of 4 children

QUITO, Ecuador — An Ecuadorean judge Tuesday ordered the arrest of 16 soldiers charged with the disappearance of four children who went missing three weeks ago in the coastal city of Guayaquil. The case of the missing children has shaken Ecuador, a nation where the military has been increasingly deployed to patrol cities and fight drug gangs amid growing levels …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Ecuador international Angulo dies at 22, a month after car crash

The Hindu

Ecuador international Marco Angulo has died at the age of 22, a month after suffering critical injuries in a car crash, the Ecuadorean football federation said on Tuesday. Angulo was involved in a traffic accident on October 7 that also resulted in the death of his former youth team teammate Roberto Cabezas. Angulo had been playing for Ecuadorean league champions …

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6 months, 1 week ago

10 books to add to your reading list in July

LA Times

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your July reading list. The Coin: A Novel By Yasmin Zaher Catapult: 240 pages, $27 Birkin-bag economics meets colorism and racism and feminism and more — it’s beyond intersectionality — in Zaher’s stunning and surreal debut novel of a young Palestinian woman who lives and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Julian Assange timeline: A criminal or a hero?

Al Jazeera

The WikiLeaks founder is free after years-long legal battle that has stirred debate around the world on press freedom. June 2012 – The British Supreme Court rejects Assange’s final appeal and five days later he takes refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London and seeks political asylum, which Ecuador grants in August 2012. July 2021 – The High Court grants the …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with U.S. and be freed from prison

LA Times

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecuador hit by nationwide blackout, leaving 17 million in the dark

CNN

CNN — Ecuador was hit with an hours-long nationwide blackout on Wednesday that left the South American nation’s 17 million people without power. The blackout — which affected hospitals, homes, and a major subway system — was caused by maintenance and transmission issues in the country’s electrical system, authorities said. The latest saw Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa declare an energy …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Watch: Julian Assange’s wife and supporters speak ahead of extradition hearing

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Watch as Julian Assange's wife and supporters held a briefing …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Mexico asks U.N. to expel Ecuador over its police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito

LA Times

People protest Saturday outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in Mexico City. Ecuador’s police broke into the Mexican Embassy last week to arrest a former vice president who was seeking asylum. Mexico’s president said Thursday his country is demanding that the United Nations expel Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top U.N. court over Ecuador’s police …

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9 months ago

Mexico breaks ties with Ecuador after police storm its embassy in Quito to arrest politician

LA Times

A military vehicle transports former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas from the detention center where he was held after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest him in Quito on Saturday. Mexico’s government ended diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorean vice president, an extraordinary use of force that shocked …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Julian Assange appeals in ‘most important press freedom case in the world’

Al Jazeera

A court will decide if Julian Assange may appeal extradition to the US, where relatives say he could die in jail. London’s High Court has scheduled two days of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal a United States request for extradition to stand trial on espionage charges. Snowden called Assange’s case “the …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ecuador: As terror grips the streets, even the armed forces live in fear

CNN

Guayaquil, Ecuador CNN — Camille Gamarra and Diego Gallardo sat in their living room and watched as armed gunmen stormed a local television news studio, taking anchors and staff hostage during the live broadcast. Noboa, who had only been inaugurated two months earlier, declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country and ordered Ecuador’s armed forces to “neutralize” the members …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Argentina arrests, deports family of Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive

Al Jazeera

Drug boss Jose Adolfo Macias is at large after escaping from an Ecuadorean prison, triggering wave of gang violence. The wife and children of Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive, drug kingpin Jose Adolfo Macias, were arrested in Argentina and have been deported to Ecuador. The Los Choneros gang leader, known as “Fito”, escaped from a prison in the port city of Guayaquil …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

One of Ecuador’s most notorious gang leaders went missing from prison. What we know

LA Times

José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of Los Choneros, one of the Ecuadorean gangs considered responsible for a spike in car bombings, kidnappings and slayings, was discovered missing from the prison cell where he was serving a sentence for drug trafficking. It also led President Daniel Noboa to declare that the country had an “armed internal conflict.” Macías, who is known …

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1 year ago

No one hurt, 13 arrested after armed men storm Ecuadorean TV studio during live broadcast

LA Times

A masked armed man stands over journalists during a live broadcast from a TV studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Tuesday. “This is a turning point,” said Will Freeman, a political analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, adding that while gangs in Ecuador assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and set off car bombs in front of government buildings, Tuesday’s events …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Inter Miami settles for draw with Orlando City without Messi, Alba, Busquets

The Hindu

Inter Miami, without Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, battled to a 1-1 draw at Orlando City in Major League Soccer on Sunday. Miami can win its second trophy of the Messi era on Wednesday when it looks to add the U.S. Open Cup to the League Cup it won last month and with that goal in mind head …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Inter Miami Feel Absence of Lionel Messi as Atlanta Rout Herons

News 18

Inter Miami rested Lionel Messi and suffered their first defeat since the Argentine joined the club, with a 5-2 hammering at Atlanta United damaging their playoff hopes on Saturday. Miami coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino said after the loss that Messi and had been suffering from “muscle fatigue” and that it would have been “very reckless to bring him to play …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Messi-less Inter Miami crushed 5-2 by Atlanta United

The Hindu

Inter Miami rested Lionel Messi and suffered its first defeat since the Argentine joined the club, with a 5-2 hammering at Atlanta United damaging its playoff hopes on Saturday. Miami coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino said after the loss that Messi and had been suffering from “muscle fatigue” and that it would have been “very reckless to bring him to play …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Chelsea signs Caicedo from Brighton for British record fee

The Hindu

Chelsea has broken the British transfer record for the second time in a year after announcing the signing of Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton & Hove Albion on an eight-year contract on Monday. Financial details were not disclosed but British media said Chelsea will pay 115 million pounds, eclipsing the 106 million pounds record fee the London club paid …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Slain Ecuador candidate fearlessly took on drug cartels and corruption

LA Times

Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio waves an Ecuadorean flag during a campaign event at a school minutes before he was shot to death outside the campus in Quito, Ecuador, on Wednesday. “People need to know that his family’s in danger and we can’t go to such a big event,” the victim’s daughter, Tamia Villavicencio, told reporters outside the cemetery. Villavicencio began …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Ecuador: Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead after campaign rally

Deccan Chronicle

Quito : Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been shot dead at a political rally in Quito Wednesday night, The Washington Post reported. Few days before the general election in #Ecuador one of the Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been shot dead at a rally in Quito. Though not a front… pic.twitter.com/NvRHaAyGCE — Tehseen Poonawalla Official ðŸ‡®ðŸ‡³ August 10, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

For New York’s Ecuadorean diaspora, ecuavoley is a slice of home

LA Times

Four towering light beams flicker on Robert Banderas as he clutches a microphone. At night, Banderas transforms into “El Cuy,” one of the biggest boosters of ecuavoley in New York City. “That’s the beauty of this sport,” shared El Cuy, “one already carries it in the blood.” The rise of ecuavoley can be attributed to the growing Ecuadorean population in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Elderly Ecuadorean woman was being taken for burial. Then this happened

Hindustan Times

A 76-year-old Ecuadorean woman, who was declared dead at a hospital, was found alive after she knocked at the coffin on Friday last week. Retired nurse Bella Montoya stunned her relatives as she proved the doctor, at the Martín Icaza Hospital in Babahoyo, wrong. "My mum started to move her left hand, to open her eyes, her mouth; she struggled …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ecuador’s embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election

Al Jazeera

Guillermo Lasso’s announcement comes weeks after he dissolved the legislature amid prospect of impeachment. Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso, who dissolved the country’s National Assembly last month amid an impeachment process against him, has announced that he will not run in early elections set for August. “I want to be clear I will not accept the nomination as a candidate for …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ecuador’s president, facing looming impeachment vote, dissolves country’s national assembly

CNN

CNN — Ecuador’s embattled President Guillermo Lasso, who was facing a looming impeachment vote, has triggered a constitutional clause to dissolve government, a politically fraught move that could spark protests with the country already tackling a fragile security situation. Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who is a left-wing opposition leader, said on Twitter that Lasso’s move was “illegal” but also …

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Ecuador orders the detention of 16 soldiers charged with the disappearance of 4 children

Ecuador international Angulo dies at 22, a month after car crash

10 books to add to your reading list in July

Julian Assange timeline: A criminal or a hero?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with U.S. and be freed from prison

Ecuador hit by nationwide blackout, leaving 17 million in the dark

Watch: Julian Assange’s wife and supporters speak ahead of extradition hearing

Mexico asks U.N. to expel Ecuador over its police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito

Mexico breaks ties with Ecuador after police storm its embassy in Quito to arrest politician

Julian Assange appeals in ‘most important press freedom case in the world’

Ecuador: As terror grips the streets, even the armed forces live in fear

Argentina arrests, deports family of Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive

One of Ecuador’s most notorious gang leaders went missing from prison. What we know

No one hurt, 13 arrested after armed men storm Ecuadorean TV studio during live broadcast

Inter Miami settles for draw with Orlando City without Messi, Alba, Busquets

Inter Miami Feel Absence of Lionel Messi as Atlanta Rout Herons

Messi-less Inter Miami crushed 5-2 by Atlanta United

Chelsea signs Caicedo from Brighton for British record fee

Slain Ecuador candidate fearlessly took on drug cartels and corruption

Ecuador: Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead after campaign rally

For New York’s Ecuadorean diaspora, ecuavoley is a slice of home

Elderly Ecuadorean woman was being taken for burial. Then this happened

Ecuador’s embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election

Ecuador’s president, facing looming impeachment vote, dissolves country’s national assembly