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Forensic report confirms Guayaquil children were executed by shots to the head

The report also suggests that there could be signs of torture. The relatives of the murdered children have requested an expansion of the autopsy as the trial against 16 military personnel moves forward.

IACHR condemns the murder and torture of the four children in Guayaquil

The ruling calls for the urgent clarification of the crime and strongly requests that the Ecuadorian State protect the lives of all people, regardless of their social or ethnic status.

Ecuador’s presidential candidates debate security, sovereignty, and neoliberalism

In the debate that lasted almost four hours, the 16 candidates had to present their best offers. In this article, we present the candidates’ general proposals and some impressions from last Sunday’s discussion.

Bodies of disappeared Afro-Ecuadorian minors were found incinerated near an army base

Forensic analysis revealed that the bodies found outside of an airbase in Taura, correspond to the four children captured and disappeared by a military contingent on December 8.

Ecuador’s Noboa on the back foot amid protests and diplomatic flops

While thousands of demonstrators came out to oppose Noboa’s government, the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State hosted by Ecuador did not achieve the desired prestige.

Ecuador in the dark: Daniel Noboa increases power cuts to 14 hours a day

The contradictions in the government’s discourse on the electricity crisis reveal the absence (and possibly the will) of a plan to improve Ecuador’s electricity system. A very serious deepening of the economic crisis is foreseen.

Is Noboa’s “War on Gangs” working?

Eight months since Ecuador’s president declared an internal armed conflict and began to heavily militarize the country, what has this strategy been able to achieve?

Ecuador in crisis: five points to understand a country broken by neoliberalism

Some clues to unravel how in a few years Ecuador went from being a peaceful country to becoming a territory governed by organized crime.

New wave of violence in Ecuador’s prisons leaves 19 inmates dead in four days

According to official data, 442 prisoners have been killed in different massacres in prisons since January 2021

No end in sight for Ecuador’s prison crisis

A riot took place in Ecuador’s Bellavista prison following the latest massacre of 44 inmates on Monday May 9. Human rights organizations have called on the government to address structural problems facing the penitentiary system

Ecuador’s neoliberal government announces state emergency to impose austerity

The declaration of a state of emergency by Guillermo Lasso is more likely about quelling opposition than guaranteeing security for Ecuadorians

State of exception declared following massacre inside prison

Ecuadorian authorities stated that 116 were killed in the massacre in the Litoral penitentiary, making it the worst in the country’s history