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Riots ensued in multiple prisons across Ecuador. [28] A series of attacks took place, including attacks with explosives on businesses and private vehicles and an explosion near the house of the president of the National Court of Justice . [29] On the night of 8 January, four police officers were kidnapped in Quito and Quevedo. [15]
Ecuador was hit with a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, leaving the South American nation’s 17 million people without power.
Ecuador is reeling from a fresh wave of violence that has shaken the South American nation, with President Daniel Noboa launching a military crackdown on gangs after criminal groups took more than ...
8–15 September – 53rd International Eucharistic Congress at Quito [29] 13 September – María Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador, is shot dead in a vehicle by gunmen believed to be working for drug gangs. [30]
A political crisis began in Ecuador on 17 May 2023 as a result of the impeachment trial against President Guillermo Lasso.The impeachment inquiry began in the National Assembly on 9 May and lasted until 17 May when Lasso dissolved parliament through the constitutional provision known as muerte cruzada (' mutual death ').
Ecuador's Minister of Energy Roberto Luque said in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the failure was reported by the country's National Electricity Operator and caused “a cascade ...
Ecuador is struggling to bring spiraling violence under control, with mayors fearing for their lives and the national government recognizing an increase in extortion and kidnapping amid a 90-day ...
Ecuador–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Ecuador and Russia. Both nations are members of the United Nations . Ecuador was one country of the countries that offered Edward Snowden political asylum while he was in Moscow 's Sheremetyevo International Airport .