I know the Panama Canal well – here’s why Trump wants it
The new US president has vowed to ‘take back’ the waterway, but there’s much more to this modern wonder than meets the eye ...
Ecuador’s conservative incumbent and a leftist lawyer are leading early presidential voting results
Ecuador is likely to choose its next president in a runoff election later this year as early results of a first-round vote Sunday showed a tight difference between ...
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Drug gangs in Ecuador turn to "death saint" for protection — and allegedly human sacrifices
The U.S. last year declared Los Lobos to be the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador. Duran and the nearby city of Guayaquil are at the epicenter of Ecuador's violence, due in part to ...
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Ecuador heads to run-off election between incumbent and leftist candidate
Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, according to results available on Monday, setting the stage for a ...
Reuters4d
Ecuador presidential race set for run-off as leftist outperforms
Difference of 1% between Noboa, Gonzalez Incumbent Noboa had been predicted to win Gonzalez had decried possibility of fraud QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador's presidential race will go ...
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Ecuadorian voters, many of them crime victims, head to the polls for presidential election
some voters in Guayaquil, the epicenter of Ecuador’s violence, prefer to cast blank votes to express their discontent. Resident Dario Castro plans to do that Sunday. Last year, he was robbed ...
The New York Times6d
Ecuador’s President Has Had a Year of Chaos. Why Is He Still So Popular?
Supporters holding cardboard cutouts of President Daniel Noboa during a campaign event on Wednesday in Quito, Ecuador.Credit ... down violence in cities like Guayaquil, but the sense of safety ...
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2 injured in 2-alarm Ocean View fire
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Two people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation following a two-alarm fire in the Ocean View area of Norfolk Tuesday, Norfolk Fire-Rescue said. The call for the ...
CNN4d
Ecuador votes for a new president after years of violence and blackouts
He has also advocated for the US to re-establish a military base in Ecuador to help fight the drug trade. He even attended US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January and later followed ...
Foreign Policy6d
Ecuador Holds Election With Security Crisis on the Ballot
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Toronto Star11d
The deadly children of Ecuador have shocked a violent country. Is a new law the way to fix the crisis?
In Ecuador, a murder is not a headline. Violence is so normalized that for one of the 6,964 homicides last year to make the news, it had to include an element that shocks the South American ...