Nokia Powers Ecuador’s 5G Rollout in Partnership with CNT E.P.

Nokia and Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones E.P. (CNT E.P.), Ecuador’s national telecommunications operator, have officially launched the country’s first commercial 5G network, marking a major step in its digital transformation. Powered...

Ecuador’s crackdown on gangs fractures criminal networks and fuels bloodshed

By Alexandra Valencia GUAYAQUIL/QUITO (Reuters) -The death toll of the March shoot-out in several houses in Nueva Prosperina, one of Guayaquil’s most violent neighborhoods, was 22. Police say the bloodshed was the local result of a national...

G Adventures Releases 2026 Travel List Based on Consumer Research

G Adventures has released its annual travel list, now with a twist. New this year, the small group tour operator conducted global research to get to the “heart” of where—and why—travelers travel. Titled “Travel your heart out: Happiness List...

Ecuador's banana sector seeks global leadership in sustainability

Ecuador's banana sector aims to implement a water and carbon footprint measurement tool developed by the FAO's World Banana Forum to obtain an accurate picture of its water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. This tool was...

Research vessel charting the Americas docks in Bermuda

Created: Oct 27, 2025 08:34 AM Mark Schrader, the captain of One Ocean for the Around the Americas expedition (Photograph from Facebook) A group of sailors circumnavigating the Americas is in Bermuda this week to offer free presentations on marine...

A Journey Through History: Ecuador’s Legendary “Devil’s Nose” Train Reopens After Five-Year Hiatus

Members receive weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Start your subscription today for just $1 for the first month. (Regular subscription options $4.99/month or $42/year/) Click here to subscribe. The reactivated route,...

Ancestral Land vs. a Prison State: The Huancavilca Commune’s Battle in Coastal Ecuador

In the lowlands of Ecuador’s Santa Elena province, where the air smells of salt and dry forest resin, the Huancavilca Indigenous commune says the government is building a fortress on their past—a maximum-security prison rising on ancestral soil....

Trust and science: the essential elements missing from plastics treaty talks

Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end plastics pollution. Instead, negotiators from...

Ecuador Vice President commends Vietnam’s role in global efforts to combat cybercrime

Vice President of Ecuador Maria Jose Pinto Gonzalez Artigas (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vice President of Ecuador Maria Jose Pinto Gonzalez Artigas has hailed Vietnam’s leadership role in the global anti-cybercrime efforts as the Southeast Asian...

Coffee Processor Gets More Efficient with Centrifuge Technology

As demand for coffee grows, processors must find ways to produce quality products. That often means possessing the right machinery. El Café, an instant coffee producer based in Montecristi, Ecuador, offers products nationally and internationally,...

What Scares a Scientist? Researchers Tell Their Terrifying Tales

As Halloween approaches, jack-o’-lanterns pop up in front of houses while cobwebs and skeletons decorate storefronts. In the spirit of all things spooky, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to tell us about their scariest professional...

Ecuador's President says they tried to poison him with jam and chocolate

Friday, October 24th 2025 - 19:47 UTC Noboa's safety has been questioned ahead of a Nov. 16 referendum to change the Constitution Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa insisted that he was the target of an alleged assassination attempt through...

In Ecuador, the river never forgets — nor do the communities

The oil slick flowed downstream for more than 80 km until reaching the Pacific Ocean, where it left at least nine beaches heavily polluted. Photo: Pontificia Universidad Católica Sede Esmeraldas (PUCESE), used with their permission. This story is...

Ecuador's Noboa claims poisoned chocolate in assassination plot

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa claims he was targeted in a poisoning attempt involving toxic chocolates and jam, as authorities investigate the incident and the local vendor denies any wrongdoing. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has alleged...

Ecuador's President Noboa reveals plot to poison him with toxic chocolate in second 'assassination attempt' weeks after his motorcade came under fire

By KEVIN ADJEI-DARKO, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 03:50 EDT, 24 October 2025 | Updated: 04:00 EDT, 24 October 2025 Ecuador's president, Daniel Noboa, has revealed a plot to poison him with toxic chocolate in a second assassination...

Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature

In 2008, Ecuador made history by enshrining the rights of nature in its constitution, recognizing ecosystems as living entities with legal rights. For nearly two decades, Indigenous communities and environmentalists have defended these rights,...

Ecuador suspends Quito Metro extension design tender

Irregularities halt a consultancy tender for an extension to Line 1 just as the contract is about to be awarded. ECUADOR’s National Public Procurement Service (Sercop) has suspended a tender for detailed engineering studies of an extension to the...

Dollarnomics 101 for gringos: Why dollars behave differently in Ecuador than they do in the U.S.

The other day an expat retired engineer at my patio de comidas table told me he did not understand why Ecuador’s interest rates never budge when the Fed raises its own. In that moment I realized most of us brought our dollars here without quite...

Ecuador: Abusive Response to Protests

(Washington, DC) – Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and at times used excessive force in their response to anti-government protests since mid-September, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Since September...

The three attempts to poison Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador

Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador, is in the news not for the political sphere, but because he has been "the victim of an attempted poisoning", as the president himself indicated in an interview with CNN last Thursday. Noboa said this was when he...