List of Ecuador articles
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Solar technicians from Alianza Ceibo/Amazon Frontlines help members Ecuador’s Distant Dream of a Green Recovery
The debt-saddled country is struggling to meet its climate goals under IMF austerity.
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Guillermo Lasso celebrates after runoff elections on April 11 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ecuador Just Voted Against Populism, but Its Democracy Is Far from Healthy
Conservative Guillermo Lasso will take office as an isolated president with a weak mandate, tasked with restoring faith in the country's institutions.
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Residents of the Galápagos Islands hold a demonstration outside the court where the crew of a Chinese-flagged ship confiscated by the Ecuadorian Navy is attending a hearing, on Aug. 25, 2017. China’s Hunger for Seafood Is Now Latin America’s Problem
Massively in debt to Beijing, countries in the region can’t stand up to China to protect their coasts.
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Pope Francis receives a plant offered by an indigenous woman from the Amazon as he celebrates the closing mass of the Synod on the Amazon on October 27, 2019 at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Catholicism’s Civil War Spills Into Bolivia
The pope is reaching out to indigenous people, and the right aren’t happy.
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A demonstrator waves a Chilean flag at a barricade during a protest against the government's economic policies in Santiago on Oct. 29. Latin America’s Protests Are Likely to Fail
The popular uprisings in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Haiti have many different causes and one thing in common: If history is any indicator, the outlook for genuine, lasting change is grim.
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View of a burnt area of forest in Altamira, Pará state, Brazil, on Aug. 27. This Isn’t the First Time Fires Have Ravaged the Amazon
Here’s why now can be different from the 1980s.
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article-amazon The Amazon Is on Fire
Who lit the match, and who can put out the blaze?
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Organization of American States Secretary-General Luis Almagro (left) listens while Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno speaks at the OAS in Washington on April 17. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) For Ecuador’s Lenín Moreno, Evicting Julian Assange Is Only the Beginning
The Ecuadorian president is seeking to broadly reverse Rafael Correa’s legacy.
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(iStockphoto/Foreign Policy illustration) Ecuador’s All-Seeing Eye Is Made in China
The country's pioneering surveillance and response system is entirely Chinese-built and funded.
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Zaitchik_1 How Conservation Became Colonialism
Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises his fist prior to addressing the media on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London on May 19, 2017. Ecuador urged Britain today to "grant safe passage" out of the country to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after Sweden dropped a warrant that drove him to take refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. in ‘Cat and Mouse Game’ With Julian Assange
The Swedish arrest warrant is gone, but WikiLeaks founder is far from being free.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 05: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange prepares to speak from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy where he continues to seek asylum following an extradition request from Sweden in 2012, on February 5, 2016 in London, England. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has insisted that Mr Assange's detention should be brought to an end. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Ecuador’s Presidential Elections Could Decide Julian Assange’s Fate
A leading presidential candidate has vowed to end Assange’s asylum if elected.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 19: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Equador embassy in Knightsbridge on August 19, 2012 in London, England. During his speech, Mr Assange called for the United States to bring an end to its 'Witch Hunt' against Wikileaks staff and supporters. He is currently living inside Ecuador's London embassy after being granted political asylum whilst facing extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault. It has been suggested by Ecuador's president Rafael Correa that Mr Assange might co-operate with Sweden if they promised that he would not be extradited to a third country. (Photo by Rosie Hallam/Getty Images) Why It Makes Perfect Sense for Ecuador to (Kind of) Turn Its Back on Assange
Cratering oil prices and the collapse of 21st century socialism has left Quito vulnerable.
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GettyImages-469913232 crop Correa’s Gamble
Ecuador’s president has been nibbling away at democracy for years — now he’s going for broke.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY GUILLERMO BARROS A refugee claimant Colombian woman poses with her daughter at her home in the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador, near to the border with Colombia, on November 08, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Eitan Abramovich (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images) For Colombia’s Displaced, a Peace Deal Doesn’t Mean a Path Home
Homecoming is still a long way off, for those who even want to return.
