Interviews Archives - Page 20 of 149

“Ecuador has been taken over by drug trafficking”

Reporter Juan Carlos Calderon analyzes insecurity in Ecuador and talks about the impact of candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s murder.

During the raid of the offices, police seized reporters’ personal cellphones, computers, the newspaper’s file server & other equipment.

The above photo was taken some years back. A young woman holds up a blackened hand and looks straight at the camera without smiling.

Increased remittances, tax extortion, & exports to the US are not sustainable in the medium term in the face of corruption and internal unrest

“I really am a friend of the Cuban people and I’m going to be there with whatever needs to be done, right to the last consequences.”

Hundreds of migrants have opted to move to other states. The construction trade has been one of the sectors most affected.

From exile, different natives of Nicaragua’s Carazo department speak about the protests, the government attacks, and the massacre…

Within this plural space, there is a general recognition that it has to be strengthened to include sectors or people not yet represented.

Each desertion demoralizes even more a police force that has become the armed body obeying the Ortega dictatorship.

“Investors see that that they’re not only confiscating those involved in politics or the NGOs, but they’re attacking company owners as well.”