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Ecuador’s first Indigenous university proves to be a big hit

The World's Global Classroom

In the coming weeks, roughly two dozen students will become the inaugural graduates from Ecuador’s first public Indigenous university. Students and professors say they are finally receiving higher education in sync with their worldviews. They believe the university is poised to have a significant impact on the country’s future.

Evangelical churches flourish among Indigenous communities in Ecuador

Sacred Nation

Security concerns to decide Ecuador’s presidential election this weekend

Elections
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

Thousands of protests filled the streets and shut down much of Ecuador during a national strike.

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

Those who have watched over the Montreal Protocol since its formation have never had to take significant measures to enforce it — until now.

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.