Two of the most talked-about "characters" in recent months were at the center of a controversy just after the last holiday. The first is Bonil (Xavier Bonilla), one of the country's most renowned cartoonists, who has been highly critical of the government (as well as other authorities) and who works […]
From July 29th to September 28th, Ecuador has been observing its first closed season for tuna fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO). Purse seine vessels with a carrying capacity of more than 182 metric tons (IATTC capacity classes 4, 5, and 6) […]
Profiles of Our History is a new CIESPAL radio production featuring a series of 20 short episodes on the lives, work, and outstanding events of the most important figures who made history in our country. The lives of figures from Atahualpa, Rumiñahui, Abdón Calderón, Eugenio Espejo, Manuela Sáenz, Juan Montalvo, and Eloy Alfaro, to […]
Press Release: Amnesty International. Authorities are using Ecuador's judicial system to repress Indigenous and peasant leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting measures affecting their environment and lands, Amnesty International said in a statement.
Celebration of the Day for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem and the IV Congress of the Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem organized at C-CONDEM BY: P. Rasa Bihari D. To speak of the mangrove ecosystem is to refer to a complex system made up of mangrove forests, tidal beaches and other integrated habitats, which is located in the area […]
The largest global sporting event kicked off a few days ago, with thousands of athletes from around the world gathering in London, England, to compete in dozens of disciplines during the Olympic Games. Since 2010, when the organizing committee announced that the Games would be "the greenest in history," environmentalists from all over the world have […]
Although the news didn't receive much coverage at the time it broke, the truth is that since July 12, Ecuador joined the group of countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran that maintain some kind of obsession with controlling what their citizens […]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) today condemned Ecuador for granting an oil concession in the Amazonian indigenous territories of the Sarayaku Kichwa people in the early 1990s without conducting free, prior, and informed consultations, in accordance with international standards, in violation of the Sarayaku people's rights to […]
While everyone in the Valdivia commune was celebrating another of their traditional festivals a few days ago, amid joy, parades, and dancing, an event related to the INDUVAL case, involving harassment, insults, and beatings of the President of the Valdivia Commune, Pedro Borbor, marred these celebrations. The incident, which occurred on February 13th […]
The First Things First Manifesto was originally written in 1963 and caused quite a stir at the time. It attacked the consumerist culture that was only interested in buying and selling things, and championed the humanistic dimension of graphic design. It was updated by a new group of […]
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