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Colombian singer Juanes said yesterday that “important threads are moving” to build peace in his country. In an article he wrote for the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo he recounted his experience with former Colombian guerrillas. The artist said “this is a unique moment...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, announced that his country will sadly retreat itself from the “notorious” Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and called for the creation of State Council to investigate this matter. Chavez stated that “it’s a mechanism used by the...

Colombian singer Shakira just uploaded to the web a short preview of what will be the video of her “Addicted To You” song. The full version will be presented on Wednesday May 2. At the moment there is the opportunity to download the track now from iTunes...

Xavier Bonilla, known as Bonil, won the first honorable mention in Humor Free category in the World Press Cartoon 2012. The Ecuadorian cartoonist who collaborates on the editorial pages of El Universo journal, won the award with the work called Virtual Reader, published in...

Thousands of Spaniards marched the streets nationwide last Sunday to slam Madrid’s austerity program, which will take a $13 billion bite out of the country’s education and healthcare budgets. “It’s a crime to cut healthcare!” read numerous banners across...

Jacqueline Traide, 24 years old activist for animal rights, underwent the same interventions that live animals undergo for experimentation and testing of cosmetics. Traide, volunteered to make a public display at Lush cosmetics shop, in London, to make a wake-up call about the...

A six-degree seism in the Richter scale was felt in the regions of Coquimbo and Antofagasta, in the North of Chile. However no damages were reported. According to the Seismology Institute of the University of Chile the tremor was located at 07:39 (GMT) and its epicenter was under...

Activists are stepping up their campaign against the London 2012 corporate sponsors’ dubious environmental credentials. They accuse the companies of paying for their “green” status. Environmental protesters and human rights activists have launched a new campaign entitled...

Shokri Ghanem, the former Oil ministry of Libya was found dead last Sunday in the Danube River in Vienna, Austria. Ghanem was a member of Moammar Gadhafi government, however he deserted the country after the opposition and NATO cornered the deceased Libyan leader. Ghanem corpse...

To celebrate the international day of dance, ecuadortimes.net interviewed prominent dancers of different genres in Guayaquil. Our first interviewee was Margit Peguero, better known as “Mayita”, a ballet dancer from Cuba. She has lived in Guayaquil for 17 years with...