How ‘Green’ Water Concessions Are Failing Ecuador
The Hidrotambo hydroelectric dam threatens one of Ecuador’s richest food-producing regions, without reducing Ecuador’s reliance on fossil fuels ...
Oil Politics in Ecuador: Saving Yasuní, Without Chevron’s Blood Money
Two precedent-setting environmental challenges in Ecuador—an initiative to save the Yasuní rainforest, and a landmark lawsuit against Chevron Oil for ...
Ecuador: Oil Up for Grabs
After the triumph of Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the country established a state socialist regime based on the Soviet model. This ...
Colombia’s Magic Laptops
In September, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it was designating one former and ...
Ecuador’s Popular Revolt: Forging a New Nation
Ecuador was in a festive mood May 1 as tens of thousands rallied in Quito to celebrate International Workers’ Day ...
ECUADOR An Unquiet Disappearance
At 9:30 in the morning on January 8,1988, 17-year-old Santiago Restrepo and his 14-year-old brother Andr6s left their home in ...
Perils of Nationalism: The Peru-Ecuador Conflict
The treaty ending the border conflict divided public opinion in both Peru and Ecuador, fanning the virulent flames of nationalism ...
A Sense of Possibility: Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes Center Stage
At about 9:45 on the morning of January 21, a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people from the Ecuadorian highlands, burst ...
