Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration ...
Ecuador’s April 11 election that led to a 5-point victory by conservative banker Guillermo Lasso over progressive candidate Andrés Arauz was not what it appeared to be. On the surface, it was a surprisingly clean ...
In Ecuador’s presidential election held on February 7, 2021, Andrés Arauz won the largest number of votes but could not prevail in the first round against 15 other candidates; he won 32.71 percent of the vote, short ...
An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela. In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade ...
A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz—who ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken ...
Will there be room to start a conversation now about the divergence between IMF policy and democracy? Each year, the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathers at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This ...
As Ecuador endures a financial crisis, protesters took to the streets to express their anger at newly imposed IMF-forced austerity measures. An International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed austerity program that cut a decades-long fuel subsidy and ...
After 70 days in preventive detention without formal charges, Ola Bini’s request for habeas corpus was granted, and shortly after, he was released from prison. (By Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch) Privacy activist and software developer ...
Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno has tried to settle the controversy and denied the possibility of a foreign military base in the country. (Peoples Dispatch) On June 17, dozens of environmentalists and citizens demonstrated in front ...
Free software developer and privacy activist Ola Bini, who is in prison in Ecuador, reflects on the responsibilities of privilege, his commitment to privacy and the risks poses by the rise of surveillance. (Peoples Dispatch) ...
“I’m confident it will be obvious that there’s no substance to this case, and that it will collapse into nothing.” On April 11 Ecuadorian authorities arrested the Swedish cryptographer and privacy advocate Ola Bini in ...
Embassy ouster was a long-reported condition for pact. (By Jason Ditz, AntiWar) WikiLeaks has long reported that the $10 billion IMF bailout for Ecuador was closely related to complying with US demands, in particular on revoking the ...
If found guilty, top executives in two big oil companies could go to jail and the companies risk enormous penalties, including relinquishing an oil-rich region. In what is now one of the biggest corporate corruption ...
Despite having massive oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy is still stuck in a downfall. Since 2014, the economy of Venezuela has been in a free-fall. The once vibrant economy that was also once the largest in ...
An international arbitration court made the latest ruling in favor of Chevron in the never-ending legal case between Chevron and Ecuadorian residents who claim their land and water was contaminated by the company over a period ...
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