Read the latest news from regional and global sources, presenting different voices and perspectives.
Ecuador: CONAIE Accuses Noboa of Undermining Constitutional Court’s Independence
teleSUR
·
Constitutiona Court headquarters in Quito, Ecuador. X/ @Expedientes_ec August 6, 2025 Hour: 1:32 pm On Wednesday, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) accused President Daniel Noboa of attempting to delegitimize and...
On the ground with the gangs, generals and families caught in Ecuador’s drug war
Yahoo News
·
He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug trade plaguing the country. “Yes, I’m part of...
Ecuador Sets Sail for La Mar de Músicas 2026
World Music Central
·
August 6, 2025
The 31st edition of La Mar de Músicas will take place in Cartagena from 17 to 25 July 2026, with Ecuador as the guest country. The announcement came during the closing night of the 2025 festival, which focused on South Korea, following the...
El Paso’s Fort Bliss to become largest immigration detention facility in US
Roswell Daily Record - New Mexico
·
El Paso’s Fort Bliss is set to become the site of the largest immigration detention facility in the United States, as the administration of Donald Trump expands its nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration. The detention center on the U.S. Army...
Newark Latin Festival sends merengue music into the air of state’s largest city (PHOTOS)
NJ.com - New Jersey
·
August 17, 2025
Merengue music filled the air in Newark on Sunday, when revelers with roots in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ecuador and other Spanish-speaking homelands took to the streets for the city’s sixth annual Latin Festival. The day-long...
Utah Latino leaders air concerns in meeting with Sen. Escamilla amid immigration crackdown
Deseret News - Utah
·
August 9, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY — Seeking an outlet to air their concerns amid the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration, representatives from several Latin American organizations in Utah turned last week to Utah Sen. Luz Escamilla. “We just wanted to create a...
Abuja Original Inhabitants: Group Urges FG To Ratify ILO Convention On Indigenous People
New Telegraph
·
August 9, 2025
Abuja Original Inhabitants: Group Urges FG To Ratify ILO Convention On Indigenous People Anayo Ezugwu The Network of Journalists on Indigenous Issues (NEJII) has urged the Nigerian government to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
NIA arrests 2 more in ‘donkey route’ probe as Karnal immigration agents surface in ED investigation too
The Print
·
August 9, 2025
New Delhi: Further unravelling the web of agents behind illegal immigration of Indian youths to the United States through ‘donkey’ routes, the National Investigation Agency arrested two immigration agents 7 August. The arrested were identified as...
Paterson to Celebrate Ecuadorian Independence with Flag Raising Ceremony
RLS Media - New Jersey
·
August 9, 2025
Paterson By: Richard L. Smith The colors of Ecuador’s national flag will fly proudly over Paterson this weekend as the city comes together to honor the nation’s independence and the vibrant Ecuadorian community that calls Paterson home. According...
Too much tolerance risks violence and anarchy. Britain's turning somersaults to accommodate cultures whose values are opposite to our own: ROBERT TOMBS
Daily Mail
·
August 9, 2025
The great essayist Michel de Montaigne, writing a few decades after Columbus discovered the West Indies, was fascinated by reports of what the indigenous people ate there. Mice, lizards, bats and grasshoppers were considered delicacies. A toad,...
Trine engineers return to Ecuador to assist with clean drinking water
KPC Media Group - Indiana
·
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...
Ecuador and U.S. Strengthen Security Ties with New Agreement
The Cuenca Dispatch
·
August 4, 2025
Members receive weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Start your subscription today for just $1 for the first month. (Regular subscription options $4.99/month or $42/year/) Click here to subscribe. Biometric data sharing...
Americas: Regional Conference on Women must act as a safeguard against attacks on gender equality
Amnesty International
·
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
·
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
·
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
·
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
·
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...
Evangelical churches flourish among Indigenous communities in Ecuador
PRI - The World
·
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
·
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
·
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...