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Ecuador

The World's Global Classroom
Ecuador’s first Indigenous university proves to be a big hit
5:43
China and India try to repair relations
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51:10
Ecuador’s first Indigenous university has proven to be a big hit
5:43
Sacred Nation
Evangelical churches flourish among Indigenous communities in Ecuador
6:20
Experts concerned over the state of international law
Full Episode
49:18
Indigenous evangelical churches grow in Ecuador
6:20
Alex Alvear’s quest to understand his musical roots
6:32
The World's Global Classroom
Latin American students consider options as visas are on hold
5:19
Latin American students consider options as visas are on hold
5:19
Elections
Security concerns to decide Ecuador’s presidential election this weekend
5:17
Security concerns are major issue in Ecuador’s presidential election this weekend
5:17
A presidential rematch in Ecuador
0:38
Rising crime and insecurity on Ecuadorian voters’ minds
4:26
Helado Negro explains how work inspired some of his recent tracks
7:11
Immigration
Closing the Darién Gap with a barbed-wire fence
5:20
Ecuadorian court rules that a river’s rights have been violated
4:07
Ecuadorians endorse tough new security measures to combat gangs
5:55
Mexico and Ecuador embroiled in diplomatic crisis following Quito Embassy invasion
4:24
People gather during the Kanua film festival in Ecuador.
Arts, Culture & Media
Film festival makes its way through Ecuador’s Amazon by boat
mopeds and motorbikes lined up outside of a hotel
Business, Economics and Jobs
A new underground gig economy is booming in New York City as migrants wait for work permits
Screenshot from "Cape Flats Kung Fu" by Eavesdrop.
Planet Hip Hop
‘Planet Hip Hop’: The music will always be the voice of the people, Samy Alim says
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. 
Planet Hip Hop
Ecuadorian group creates political hip-hop with bunnies and clowns
The capital Quito is the city in Ecuador that has received the biggest numbers of Venezuelan migrants. 
LGBTQ
As Ecuador’s political crisis deepens, Venezuelan LGBTQ migrants feel the pain
Urchin perch on live coral (left) with fossil coral, the foundation of the live reef, in the foreground, live reef in the background.
Climate Change
Galapagos discovery offers clues to climate impact on deep-sea corals
people outside building
Conflict & Justice
Impeachment trial begins against Ecuador’s President Lasso
Children play in a flooded area of Leticia, Colombia, Feb. 14, 2017, located by the Amazon River, on the border with Brazil and Peru.
Environment
Brazil’s neighbors wary of environmental impact of a Bolsonaro victory
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. 
Protest
‘We are here with one idea, one heart’: Ecuador’s Indigenous groups rally for rights in mass protests
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for their work to preserve the rainforest in Ecuador's Amazon.
Environment
Indigenous activists in Ecuador’s Amazon win major environmental award for reclamation of native lands
A major oil spill threatens hundreds of Indigenous communities who live along the Coca River that leads into Ecuador's Amazon.
Environment
‘We want justice’: Indigenous communities in peril after major oil spill in Ecuador’s Amazon 
A marine iguana crawls along the beach on Rabida Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Environment
‘Magical’ animal encounters on the Galapagos Islands
President Joe Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington
Top of The World
US and Chinese presidents strike conciliatory tone during hourslong meeting
A white ambulance is shown from the front with several people wearing military fatigues and carrying weapons standing nearby.
Top of The World
Gang riot in Ecuador prison leaves more than 100 dead, dozens injured
Cruise boats that used to take tourists around the islands now spend much of their time anchored at the main harbor in Puerto Ayora. 
Business
The Galápagos Islands needs tourism. Can herd immunity revive it?
A row of tall stainless steel centrifuges are shown.
Top of The World
Iran blames Israel for blackout, vows revenge
Presidential candidate Yaku Pérez greets supporters as he leads a protest march to Quito, in Latacunga, Ecuador, Feb. 22, 2021. Pérez, who came in a close third in the recent elections, has alleged fraud after the results indicated he had fallen just shor
Ecuador’s recent presidential election edges closer to resolution
Demonstrators wave a large rainbow flag outside congress in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires. 
Language
Royal Spanish Academy dismisses movement to make Spanish more gender-inclusive
Health workers instruct a woman before taking a swab for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test.
Business, Economics and Jobs
IMF reassures COVID-19 support after hundreds of groups push back against belt-tightening measures
Veronica Gomez, who was traveling with her partner and her son, receives backpacks from a humanitarian worker on Oct 1. The backpacks included energy bars, toiletries and ski masks, for the cold weather.
Migration
Amid pandemic, Venezuelans hit the road again in search of work
An image of blue water surrounding the Galápagos Islands.
Environment
Chinese fishing fleet threatens Galápagos Islands
Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a rally calling for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for ex-officials to be put on trial in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 21, 2019.
Protest
Protests that rocked The World in 2019
A crowd of people, some carrying Ecuadorian flags, protest in city streets
Ecuadorean protesters raise heat on defiant Moreno
Assange
Justice
A decade of WikiLeaks’ Assange, from allegations to arrest
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen with a long white beard, sitting and handcuffed in a police van.
Justice
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London
Former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort is shown wearing a suit and blue tie surrounded by cameras in Washington, 2017.
Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort denies ever meeting with Wikileaks’ Assange
A man stands in front of a window
Justice
US prepares criminal case against Wikileaks’ Assange
Infant formula shopping
Why did the US try to block a UN resolution encouraging breastfeeding?
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
Environment
Scientists detected a spike in ozone-depleting chemicals. They’ll use the Montreal Protocol to stop the pollution.
A close-up of a giant land tortoise in the Santa Cruz highlands of the Galápagos Islands.
Science
These kids are hoping to save Galapagos tortoises — and their own home — from climate change
Colorado River
Justice
Environmental lawyers seek legal rights for the natural world
British primatologist Jane Goodall
Science
Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’
Isabela pier, Galapagos Islands
Environment
Is tourism harming the Galápagos Islands?
Conservationists hope building a market for local, shade-grown coffee could help restore vital but degraded scalesia forests on Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos.
Business
Humans are damaging the fragile Galapagos ecosystem. Maybe coffee can help save it.
Ecuador election runoff
Global Politics
Leftist Lenin Moreno hopes to avoid runoff in tense Ecuador vote
Two men in suits walking down New York steet
Justice
Mr. Trump, I would be dead today if this country had not let me in
Woman with large green card poster yells
Global Politics
#7. @realdonaldtrump: In addition to undocumented immigrants, are you prioritizing deportation of lawful US residents? #100Days100Qs
Eljuri, one of the artists featured on The World this week.
Music
The World’s music features this week: Eljuri, Kady and Greg Lake
Man posing for camera, wearing suit
Justice
I know you voted for Trump for a better future. But please don’t forget my future.
Black and white photo of man standing in room
Justice
‘When I vote next week, I will be saying loud and clear, this is also my country.’
People walk past debris of a collapsed building
Development
Ecuador carries on amidst chaos and grief after weekend’s earthquake
Mateo Kingman
Music
Mateo Kingman makes hip-hop from his roots in the Ecuadorian Amazon