Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention of leftist presidential candidate
Luisa Gonzalez, who lost to right-wing president Daniel Noboa in 2023, has called the arrest political persecution.
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Ecuador defends US sinking of vessels as joint anti-drug operation
Relatives of detained crew say US forces acted without evidence, claiming the men were fishermen, not smugglers.
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Ecuador sentences ex-president Moreno to five years in jail in bribery case
Lenin Moreno, 73, has also been permanently barred from holding any public office in the future.
US military says strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat kills two
US Southern Command says Sunday’s strike targeted vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes.
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Is Trump making Latin America great again?
A right-wing wave is sweeping through the region and that is not good news.
Guyana’s Rodrigues Birkett leads informal poll in race to be next UN leader
Guyanese diplomat emerges narrowly ahead as the council works towards consensus before Guterres departs.
Seven people, mostly foreign tourists, killed in helicopter crash in Kenya
Ecuador’s intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and NBCUniversal journalist Jose Suarez are among the dead.
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Half a tonne of Erling Haaland branded cocaine seized in Ecuador
Erling Haaland’s name and image turned up on hundreds of cocaine bricks seized by Ecuadorian police.
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Colombia declares emergency after magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills 132
Urgent search for survivors in Colombia after strongest quake of the century brings down buildings in western provinces.
Civilians faced attacks, abuse in joint US-Ecuador operations, HRW says
Report presents evidence civilian farmers, fisherman were caught up in anti-drug crime operations from January to March.
US designates Ecuador’s Chone Killers gang as ‘terrorist’ organisation
Ecuador’s government praises the US for backing President Noboa’s campaign to dismantle gang-crime networks.
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