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Noboa said the borders would be closed over the weekend, when he is facing 15 opponents in a Sunday presidential election, due to "attempts by armed groups to destabilize the country."
Ecuador’s ports are now a major exit point for South American cocaine headed to North America and Europe, the UN says. This newfound position in the international drug trade has sparked a ...
By 15 September, 222 fire emergencies were reported, the largest of which were detected in the departments of Amazonas, Ancash, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, San Martin, and Ucayali. Peru's civil defense reported that as a result of the widespread wildfires, at least fifteen civilians were killed and 134 more were injured.
In August 2024, multiple wildfires started in Ecuador. [1] What they resulted from is currently unknown. Some cities in Ecuador such as Loja, Quito and Guayaquil have been affected by forest fires to such an extent that the Peruvian government has been forced to send personnel and support aircraft to stop the forest fires.
Due to better control of the Colombian government over transportation hubs, drug trafficking from Colombia decreased and its operations moved to Ecuador. [ 17 ] According to Vox , the lower demand for cocaine in the United States alongside the Colombian peace process created a power vacuum that saw Albanian, Mexican and Venezuelan criminal ...
Within a day of the raid, every government in Latin America that issued a statement had condemned Ecuador’s actions as a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Article ...
Ecuador has the sixth largest concentration of Venezuelan migrants. Ecuadorian officials and nongovernmental organizations that assist migrants estimate that 475,000 Venezuelans live in Ecuador. Of those more than 231,000 live permanently and legally there, according to Ecuador’s 2023 census.
Since mid-September, Ecuador has established an electricity rationing system of up to 10 hours a day in some cities, but the power cut hours announced Thursday are the most extreme so far. The drought affecting several countries in South America has been linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon. 10/25/2024 12:25 -0400