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Ecuadorian Anti-Mining Coalition Warns of Repression Under New Laws

Ecuadorian Anti-Mining Coalition Warns of Repression Under New Laws

Police repress protests in the Las Naves community, Ecuador, June 26, 2025. x/ @miningwatch July 3, 2025 Hour: 1:23 pm On Wednesday, Ecuador’s National Anti-Mining Front (FNA) denounced a smear campaign by mainstream media and multinational...

Peruvian Congress Moves to Revoke President Boluarte’s Salary Increase

Peruvian Congress Moves to Revoke President Boluarte’s Salary Increase

Peruvian lawmakers have introduced four bills to annul the decree that doubled President Boluarte’s salary, challenging its legitimacy and demanding accountability before Congress. President Dina Boluarte faces mounting criticism over her salary...

Government of Canada Extends MDA Space Contract Providing Continuous Space-based 'Maritime Awareness' and Security

Government of Canada Extends MDA Space Contract Providing Continuous Space-based 'Maritime Awareness' and Security

Government of Canada Extends MDA Space Contract Providing Continuous Space-based 'Maritime Awareness' and Security Richmond, BC, July 3, 2025--(T-Net)--MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA), a mission partner to the global space industry, today announced a...

Legal Pluralism in Practice:  Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government

Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government

In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right of indigenous peoples to establish autonomous territorial entities with their own...

Rafael Correa Exposes Transferable Ink Fraud in Ecuador’s Presidential Election with OAS Evidence

Rafael Correa Exposes Transferable Ink Fraud in Ecuador’s Presidential Election with OAS Evidence

Ecuador election controversy: Correa claims vote manipulation through transferable ink. Photo: @cnegobec/X. July 4, 2025 Hour: 10:21 pm Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa reveals evidence of ink transfer on ballots during the April 2025...

Young lawmaker, 19, sparks fury over video of his highly-inappropriate behavior on chamber floor

Young lawmaker, 19, sparks fury over video of his highly-inappropriate behavior on chamber floor

By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 11:07 EDT, 8 July 2025 | Updated: 11:24 EDT, 8 July 2025 The youngest member of Ecuador's Congress could face disciplinary action after he was recorded drawing during the middle of a speech. The bizarre...

Operation Green Shield dismantles criminal networks in Amazon, seizes $64 million in assets

Operation Green Shield dismantles criminal networks in Amazon, seizes $64 million in assets

ABU DHABI, 8th July, 2025 (WAM) -- In a major milestone for international environmental law enforcement, Operation Green Shield, led by the UAE Ministry of Interior through the International Initiative of Law Enforcement for Climate (I2LEC),...

Morocco, Ecuador Reiterate Willingness To Further Bolster Bilateral Ties

Morocco, Ecuador Reiterate Willingness To Further Bolster Bilateral Ties

(MENAFN- APO Group) The Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Ecuador reiterated on Friday in Rabat their mutual willingness to further strengthen the development of their bilateral relations. Following the meeting held between the Minister of...

Morocco: Ecuador Inaugurates Its Embassy In Rabat

Morocco: Ecuador Inaugurates Its Embassy In Rabat

(MENAFN- APO Group) Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates, Mr. Nasser Bourita, and Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Mrs. Gabriela Sommerfeld, inaugurated the Embassy of the Republic of...

Liberia, Ecuador Reaffirm Support for Morocco’s Sovereignty Over Western Sahara

Liberia, Ecuador Reaffirm Support for Morocco’s Sovereignty Over Western Sahara

Rabat – Liberia and Ecuador have both reaffirmed their strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara during official visits to Rabat on Friday. Liberia’s Foreign Minister, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, said her...

Alex Gimarc: Sustainable aquaculture in Alaska?

Alex Gimarc: Sustainable aquaculture in Alaska?

By ALEX GIMARC I received a heads up last week from Craig Medred, announcing a World Bank publication that spoke in glowing terms about the role aquaculture is going to play in feeding a growing worldwide population. It predicts as many as 22...

Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo.

Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo.

There’s a lot of mystery and secrecy that surrounds Santiago Caputo, the top strategist to Argentina’s President Javier Milei. On the rare occasions he’s been spotted in public, he’s often lighting up a cigarette in his signature Ray-Bans,...

Dominican Republic and Ecuador sign pact to boost trust in digital transactions

Dominican Republic and Ecuador sign pact to boost trust in digital transactions

Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Republic and Ecuador have signed a bilateral cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening legal security and trust in digital transactions through the mutual recognition of electronic signatures. The agreement was...

USNS Comfort Arrives in Manta, Ecuador

USNS Comfort Arrives in Manta, Ecuador

The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Manta, Ecuador for the third mission stop of Continuing Promise 2025 (CP 25), July 4, 2025. “We look forward to building upon our relationship with Ecuador through medical care and...

Three Tons of Cocaine Seized in Ecuador, Authorities: It Belongs to the Albanian Mafia

Three Tons of Cocaine Seized in Ecuador, Authorities: It Belongs to the Albanian Mafia

Three tons of cocaine have been seized in Ecuador, with authorities stating that the shipment belongs to the Albanian mafia, which is reportedly linked to Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. The narcotics were discovered on Thursday at a farm in...

Recognizing and supporting the transformative role of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in facing the climate crisis

Recognizing and supporting the transformative role of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in facing the climate crisis

In recent years, the effects of weather and climate phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean have rippled across the region—from the Andes to Patagonia, from cities to coastal towns—causing deep socio-economic and environmental disruptions....

Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reveals new wave of migrant’s deportation

Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reveals new wave of migrant’s deportation

(MENAFN) The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday that the United States has deported 3,977 Ecuadorian migrants without legal status during the first six months of 2025. This total includes 38 individuals who arrived on Monday in...

Peruvians outraged after president Boluarte doubles her salary to over $10,000

Peruvians outraged after president Boluarte doubles her salary to over $10,000

President of Peru, Dina Boluarte has doubled her monthly income to more than $10,000, sparking widespread outrage, with approximately 30% of the population still living in poverty. The Peruvian economy minister announced late Wednesday that...

world 'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary

world 'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary

LIMA — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte will double her salary to the equivalent of some US$10,000 (S$12,746) per month, angering many Peruvians who said the money would be better spent on alleviating poverty. The economy minister announced late...

Social Eyes: Week of July 10-16

Social Eyes: Week of July 10-16

THURSDAY, JULY 10 R&B SAMOHT Whether he’s on YouTube teaching his fans how to make his special Christmas Mojito or belting out a song in his home state of North Carolina, Samoht is probably wearing a Stetson. The R&B singer got his start just...

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