With doors closed to the US, asylum-seekers turn to their Plan B: A new life in Mexico
After President Donald Trump effectively slammed the door on asylum-seekers crossing the U.S. southern border when he took ...
Who is Daniel Noboa? The conservative millionaire president seeking reelection in Ecuador
Daniel Noboa stunned voters when, with only a brief stint as a lawmaker and no established political machinery, he ...
Mongabay5d
Ecuador’s next debt-for-nature deal falls short of Indigenous involvement
Ecuador completed a debt-for-nature swap to support Amazon conservation through the creation of the Amazon Biocorridor. While ...
The American Conservative4d
The Tragic Collapse of Ecuador
Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by ...
AlphaGalileo5d
Conciliating a ‘Bearable’ Life? The Voice of Migrants in Ecuador in Ca’ Foscari’s First ERC PoC Project
In a new project funded by ERC anthropologist Valerio Simoni will bring together individuals with diverse migration paths to ...
BBC6d
Ecuador election ends in a 'tie' prompting run-off
Ecuador's presidential election will go to a ... donning T-shirts with his image and holding life-size cardboard cut-outs of the incumbent president. These cut-outs, depicting Noboa in various ...
The Manhattan Mercury6d
Violence-hit Ecuador chooses next president
Some 14 million Ecuadorans began voting under tight security Sunday, choosing who will lead their violence-wracked Andean ...
ricochet.media2d
Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon
Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.
El País in English6d
In Ecuador, Noboa and González will compete for the presidency after a tight first round
Abad came to fear for her life. Noboa is risking family pride in the next vote ... The winner of the runoff will have a lot of work to do. Ecuador has a public debt of more than $5 billion, which has ...
In Ecuador’s highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2 candidates they don’t trust
The two main candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in ...
PBS5d
Ecuador’s conservative incumbent will face leftist lawyer in presidential runoff
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will choose its next president in a runoff election in April between conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González. Neither won ...
Science Daily3d
Origin of Life News
How Life's Building Blocks Took Shape on Early Earth: The Limits of Membraneless Polyester Protocell Formation Feb. 6, 2025 — A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential ...