Latin America Archives - Page 78 of 469

“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.

Today’s featured band is The Latin-Jazz Coalition, led by Demetrios Kastaris from the US, with the song “Trombon con sazon” (2000).

The dictatorship accuses the university of “terrorism,” but the persecution & threats against it began in 2018. This is what you should know.

Another political leader was killed Monday, less than a week after the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

Presidential candidates participated in a debate Sunday night where they vowed to address violence and security issues…

Ecuador today is a country with a life-threatening wound, that requires an urgent national project of unity, peace, and reconstruction.

Dozens of asylum seekers, including children, have been severely injured. Last week the bodies of two migrants were found in the Rio Grande.

The former journalist was fatally shot after a campaign event in Quito 10 days before the August 20 election.

Dipak Mitry from England took our photo of the day “The Coolest Place To Be”, in Trinidad & Tobago.

The group stopped short of agreeing to a key Indigenous demand for all countries to join in Brazil’s pledge to end deforestation by 2030.