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Ecuador's borders will be closed from Saturday to next Monday, President Daniel Noboa said in a post on X on Monday, while also ratcheting up the military's presence at the borders and at ports.
The Ecuador–Peru border is an international border separating Ecuador from Peru. ... The border was closed from 2020 to early 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Peru: Prime Minister Alberto Otarola declared an emergency along the border with Ecuador and ordered the deployment of the Peruvian army to bolster National Police units [41] sent there by Interior Minister Víctor Torres Falcón. [96] [97] Russia: The country warned its nationals against traveling to Ecuador. [92]
On election day, the government deployed soldiers to secure polling booths while the country's land borders were closed. [85] In Guayaquil, one person died inside a voting centre after suffering a heart attack before he could vote. [86]
More than 80 illegal migrants nabbed under President Trump’s border crackdown were recently loaded onto a C-17 military plane in El Paso, Texas, for a one-way flight back to Ecuador.
Peru's government announced immigration measures similar to Ecuador's on Friday, with passport requirements for Venezuelans beginning on Aug. 25.
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.
Ecuador is located on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2,237 km of coastline. It has 2237 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north (708 km border) and Peru in the east and south (1,529 km border). 283,561 km 2 (109,484 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km 2 (2,595 sq mi) water. Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in South America ...