Ecuador declares national emergency as wildfires, drought intensify
Ecuador's government declared a 60-day national emergency due to raging forest fires made worse by severe drought conditions, ...
Ecuador Declares Emergency For Forest Fires, Water Shortages
Ecuador on Monday declared a national emergency due to water shortages, drought and forest fires that have consumed more than 10,000 hectares in the south of the country so far this month.
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Quito fires lead Noboa to cancel UN engagements and return to Ecuador
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Wednesday halted ... Noboa insisted that the wave of fires shaking his country was a tragedy “as a country, not as a government or as a municipality, but as ...
The endless drought in South America
The consequences of climate change are already taking a toll in Latin America, with an extended drought. A worst-case ...
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Ecuador prison violence kills at least 15
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fight among inmates has left at least 15 people dead and 14 injured at Ecuador's largest prison, authorities said Tuesday. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal city of ...