Ecuador

Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote

Associated Press · April 12, 2021 3:16 am

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno talks to the press before meeting with delegates of social groups at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Moreno is preparing to announce economic measures to help prepare for the fall in the price of oil, his nation's main export, triggered by the new coronavirus, which the vast majority of people recover from.

Ecuadorian president makes emergency landing in Washington

Zach Halaschak · January 30, 2021 9:45 pm

Trump supporters rally in Miami, decrying election fraud and thanking the president for his four years in office Jan. 16, 2021.

Miami Trump supporters fear communism and call president their ‘titan’

Abraham Mahshie · January 16, 2021 10:11 pm

SOUTHCOM Commander ADM Craig Faller speaks during a briefing at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Florida.

National Security

Combatant commander insists Pentagon turnover won’t disrupt relations

Abraham Mahshie · November 11, 2020 10:01 pm

Naval forces from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and the United States commenced UNITAS LXI, an annual multinational exercise, November 2, in Manta, Ecuador.

National Security

US Southern Command naval exercise strengthens formerly strained relationships

Abraham Mahshie · November 5, 2020 10:00 am

Coronavirus detected in China on chicken wings and shrimp packaging from South America

Zach Halaschak · August 13, 2020 2:43 pm

Ecuador ‘on alert’ as hundreds of Chinese fishing ships near Galapagos Islands

Zach Halaschak · July 28, 2020 9:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

The UN botched the pandemic. Now, it’s pushing abortion in national aid packages

Zachary Faria · July 15, 2020 3:49 pm

An E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, aircrew member boards the surveillance aircraft at the former Forward Operating Location Manta in Ecuador before a mission to search for illegal drug runners over the eastern Pacific Ocean Aug. 1, 2007.

Ecuador ‘bluff’ buys goodwill from US, not military hardware

Abraham Mahshie · June 3, 2020 4:01 am

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a prison van traveling to Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Assange is expected to appear in person before Westminster Magistrates in a private hearing related to a Spanish criminal case about alleged surveillance at the Ecuador embassy.

Julian Assange claims Trump offered pardon if he denied Russian involvement in DNC hack

Spencer Neale · February 19, 2020 6:02 pm

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a prison van traveling to Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Assange is expected to appear in person before Westminster Magistrates in a private hearing related to a Spanish criminal case about alleged surveillance at the Ecuador embassy.

Reporters Without Borders demands immediate release of Julian Assange

Spencer Neale · December 27, 2019 8:53 pm

VIDEO: Crane accident causes hundreds of gallons of oil to spill into waters near Galapagos Islands

Tim Pearce · December 23, 2019 11:15 pm