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Armed Forces ( Armed Forces ) personnel had a confrontation with dissident groups of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ), in Mataje-Esmeraldas. This event occurred this Thursday, August 18, 2022. The military entity indicated that the soldiers found seven armed...

With the aim of strengthening the strategies and actions that are being implemented against deforestation in the Amazon, the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition together with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) formalized the channeling of USD...

The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) confirmed the detection of 16 patients with monkeypox in the country. Two of them are minors. This was reported by the Undersecretary of Epidemiological Surveillance, Francisco Pérez. They are the first cases in children registered in the...

The investment is around USD 6,430,000. The Municipality of Guayaquil announced that it will install 24,000 surveillance cameras with panic buttons in 6,000 public transport units in the city. The security monitoring system will include urban buses , taxis and school buses. The...

A healthy population of land iguanas, including males, females and even hatchlings, roam Santiago Island, which was their home more than two centuries ago. Three different species of land iguanas live on the Galapagos Islands, but only one is closely related to Darwin’s...

Ecuador is the third country with the highest volume of drug seizures , only behind Colombia and the United States, according to the World Drug Report 2022, presented this Monday, August 8, in Quito by the United Nations Office on Drugs ( UNODC ). This was stated by Antonio Di...

The Ministry of Health reported that the last patient, aged 29, was detected in Machala, capital of the province of El Oro. Worldwide, the disease exceeds 23,000 infections. The United States declared a health emergency. Ecuador added a new confirmed case of monkeypox, which...

The State Attorney General’s Office announced the decision of the Court of Appeals of the Third District of Florida , in the United States, before the appeal presented by the Ecuadorian State in the case of the brothers William and Roberto Isaías Dassum. In a Twitter...

Japanese popular belief states that oarfish bring bad omens. The animal species, which lives in waters over 1,000 meters deep, is associated with the appearance of possible cataclysms such as earthquakes, tidal waves and hurricanes.  Since the previous week, three sightings of...

The Minister of Health, José Ruales, confirmed that only one of the five cases of monkeypox confirmed in Ecuador remains hospitalized. According to the head of the State portfolio, the patient is isolated in a health home due to isolation, “not because there is any...