AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoEcuador Government Reshuffle: President Daniel Noboa announced a second major cabinet reorganization in under a year, merging eight ministries and secretariats into three new portfolios and cutting the state ministry count from 14 to 10, with changes spanning economy/productive development, infrastructure/tech, and labor/human development. Ecuador Prisons Crisis: A new investigation reports at least 1,220 inmate deaths in Ecuadorian prisons in 2025, driven by disease and lack of medical care amid hunger and limited transparency, with families alleging delays in information and irregular access to basic goods. Ecuador Security & Crime: Analysis highlights how Noboa’s military pressure is reshaping Ecuador’s criminal landscape—more fragmentation, more smaller armed groups, and rising violence across additional localities. U.S.-Ecuador Trade Fallout: The U.S. proposed Section 301 forced-labor tariffs that include Ecuador, placing it among countries accused of failing to effectively enforce forced-labor import prohibitions, setting up new compliance pressure for exporters. Colombia Election Spillover: In the runoff build-up, Ivan Cepeda and former President Ernesto Samper criticized Trump’s endorsement of far-right Abelardo de la Espriella, framing it as an interventionist threat to Colombian sovereignty.
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