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Ecuador Declares State of ‘Internal Armed Conflict’ to Fight Criminal Networks
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared a state of “internal armed conflict” against transnational criminal networks after a wave of street violence swept the South American country.
Nature Wars is a newsletter about bond markets, oil, and mining in Ecuador. Published by N. H. Gill, PhD, the newsletter provides expert analysis and insight into the conflicts — political, economic, social, and environmental — driving risk in the South American nation.
Political Landslides: Water and the Environment in Ecuador’s Presidential Elections
On February 12, a wall of rocks and mud buried Chanchán, a small community in the Andean province of Chimborazo in central Ecuador
Ecuador Credit Talks Silent on Debts to History
Ecuador won approval to restructure about a third of its international bonds this week, alleviating part of the fiscal hangover from the Correa administration’s ruinous decade in power.
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In 1586, a 32-year-old Franciscan friar named Luis Gerónimo de Oré began his first job in an Indigenous parish in the Colca Valley in the Peruvian Andes as an “outsider and perhaps more alone among the ‘others’ than he had been at any time in his life” (p. 91). When…
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