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Ecuador and U.S. Strengthen Security Ties with New Agreement
The Cuenca Dispatch
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August 4, 2025
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Trine engineers return to Ecuador to assist with clean drinking water
KPC Media Group - Indiana
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TUNTATACTO, Ecuador — For the second time, Trine University engineering students are working to help improve an Ecuadorian community’s access to clean drinking water. Students from the university’s Engineers Without Borders Student Chapter...
Americas: Regional Conference on Women must act as a safeguard against attacks on gender equality
Amnesty International
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August 8, 2025
The XVI Regional Conference on Women, the main United Nations forum on gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, will be held in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, from 12 to 15 August 2025. Thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing action plan, which...
Tens of thousands expected at Newark’s Ecuadorian fest Sunday
NJ.com - New Jersey
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August 8, 2025
Newark will alight with the colors of red, yellow and blue this weekend in celebrations of Ecuadorian independence, with an official flag raising on Saturday followed on Sunday by a parade and all-day festival in the city’s Ironbound section....
Amazon rainforest is threatened by the axing of ministries, say indigenous Ecuadorians
World Energy News - Connecticut
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Ecuador places Environment Ministry under Energy and Mines Ecuador increases oil drilling in Amazon Indigenous groups claim that the move hurts them and rainforest By Dan Collyns Noboa announced that in July, more than a half dozen ministries...
US Attorney’s Office starts August with 231 new federal immigration cases in the Western District of Texas
Odessa American - Texas
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August 8, 2025
SAN ANTONIO United States Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas announced Friday, that federal prosecutors in the district filed 231 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from Aug. 1 through 7. Among the new...
WNCC women’s soccer team open practice with talented team
KNEB 960 AM - Nebraska
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August 8, 2025
The Western Nebraska Community College women’s soccer team won just three matches a year ago and this year the record could be reversed as the Cougar women opened pre-season practice over the weekend with plenty of talented players. Women’s soccer...
NYC student, 7, and family detained by ICE: 'Should be getting ready for school'
KRQE - New Mexico
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August 17, 2025
QUEENS, N.Y. (WPIX) – ICE is detaining a 7-year-old girl and her immediate family, sources confirmed to Nexstar’s WPIX Saturday morning. The 7-year-old, a student at a New York City Public School, and her mother were sent to an ICE detention...
Evangelical churches flourish among Indigenous communities in Ecuador
PRI - The World
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July 28, 2025
On a Sunday evening in downtown Quito, Ecuador, near the city’s main square, places shut down early. But just two blocks away, the “El Tejar” Quichua Alliance Church was bustling. The church is squeezed into a block of old buildings with a...
A life unravelled and rebuilt: One woman’s journey from the US to Ecuador to the Algarve
The Portugal News
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Alicia, a Latina writer and executive coach originally from the United States, did not leave to escape or chase a fantasy. She left because the life she had built, successful on the surface, no longer felt aligned with who she truly was. Today,...
4 More Illegal Immigrant Child Predators Busted In NJ, ICE Says
Daily Voice
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August 7, 2025
The sweep, carried out by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark, targeted criminal non-citizens across Bergen, Hudson, Essex, and Sussex counties, the Office of Homeland Security said in...
Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
teleSUR
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Signs read, “Ancestral Women,” and “For the Future of Indigenous Girls,” Brasilia, Brazil. Aug. 7, 2025. X/ @PTnaCamara August 7, 2025 Hour: 1:11 pm On Thursday, Indigenous women protested in Brasilia for the sixth consecutive year against...
Ecuador: Violence causes increase in child deaths
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 2, 2025
Amid the security crisis affecting this South American nation, 294 cases of child homicides have been recorded in the last six months, while between January and June 2024 there were 196. Figures from the Ministry of the Interior released this...
Program guide: Ecuador celebrates National Day with a floral exhibition in Budapest
Daily News Hungary
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August 7, 2025
On the occasion of the First Cry of Independence, Ecuador’s National Day, celebrated every year on August 10, the Embassy of Ecuador in Hungary has the honor to invite the public to experience a special floral installation in the heart of...
Brazil clinch 9th Women’s Copa America title as off-field issues linger
Sabah
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August 7, 2025
Brazil clinched their ninth Women’s Copa America crown in Ecuador after surviving a dramatic 4-4 draw and edging Colombia 5-4 on penalties in a pulsating final capped by a vintage Marta performance. But while the football delivered fireworks,...
ICE has a new courthouse tactic: Get immigrants’ cases tossed, then arrest them outside
Nebraska Examiner
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August 6, 2025
Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new twist, the Trump administration has begun using an...
Ecuador is open to accepting Venezuelans living in US illegally: Sec. Noem
The Blaze
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August 1, 2025
QUITO, Ecuador — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Blaze Media on the last day of her South American tour that Ecuador's president said he would consider accepting Venezuelans who are in the United States illegally. Noem visited and...
Ecuador joins regional push to control NGO funding
United Press International (UPI)
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Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa's proposal would create a mandatory registry for nonprofit entities, require regular financial reporting and allow the government to suspend or revoke operating permits if NGOs engage in “activities incompatible...
Women's Copa America criticised after Euros success
BBC
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August 1, 2025
While this summer's Euro 2025 was marked by record attendances, a smooth operation and memorable performances capped by England's triumph, the women's Copa America has suffered in comparison. As Brazil and Colombia prepare for Sunday's final, the...
Immigrant Advocates Rally in Queens to Protest TPS Revocations
Documented - New York
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August 1, 2025
As the Trump administration moves to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, dozens of community leaders, advocates and TPS holders gathered at Queens Borough Hall earlier this week to send a message of...