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Security concerns to decide Ecuador’s presidential election this weekend

Elections

Ecuadorians head to the polls this Sunday, in one of the most hotly contested elections in decades. Thirty-seven-year-old President Daniel Noboa, the son of a banana tycoon, is facing off against former National Assembly member and leftist Luisa González. Security is the top issue on the table, as both candidates promise to tackle the rising narco-gang violence that has given Ecuador one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America. Michael Fox has the story from the capital, Quito.

Paul Moposita (wearing blue tracksuit), his daughter Sisa and some of the members of Mugre Sur, a band he started more than 20 years ago. 

Ecuadorian group creates political hip-hop with bunnies and clowns

Planet Hip Hop
Demonstrators ride trucks as they arrive to the capital to protest against the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, June 20, 2022. 

‘We are here with one idea, one heart’: Ecuador’s Indigenous groups rally for rights in mass protests

Protest
A crowd of people, some carrying Ecuadorian flags, protest in city streets

Ecuadorean protesters raise heat on defiant Moreno

Since 2002, scientific data pointed to a slower decline of CFC-11, one of several chemical substances banned by the Montreal Protocol in 1987. The amount of CFC-11 found in the atmosphere has actually gone up during that time, prompting the United Nations

Scientists detected a spike in ozone-depleting chemicals. They’ll use the Montreal Protocol to stop the pollution.

Environment
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Mateo Kingman

Mateo Kingman makes hip-hop from his roots in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Music

Mateo Kingman grew up in a small town deep in the Amazon. He didn’t know the depth of his connection to the jungle until it moved to the city, where music helped him cope.

Reproductive rights in Ecuador

As Pope Francis visits Ecuador, women there say they’re losing ground

Belief

Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa may be best known in the US as a self-described socialist. But he’s also a conservative Catholic. On the eve of the first papal visit since the 1980s, women in Ecuador say they’re losing hard-won rights under Correa’s administration.

The World

Attempted coup in Ecuador ends in violent rescue of president

Conflict & Justice

The day before yesterday, life was normal in Ecuador. But by this morning, the country had plunged into chaos. For the latest, we speak to journalist and TV director Tomas Ciuffardi, of Ecuavisa News television, who is on the ground in Quito.

A Canadian court is allowing Ecuadorians to pursue their long-running pollution suit against Chevron

Environment

A group of Ecuadorians is fighting the American oil company in a Canadian court, trying to collect pollution damages that were awarded to them by a court in Ecuador.

As Conservation Plan Fails, Ecuador OK’s Amazon Oil Drilling Plan

Environment

Ecuador has pulled the plug on a groundbreaking plan to have outside donors pay to protect an oil-rich swath of the Amazon. The plan failed to draw anywhere near the financial support the country had hoped.

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