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QUITO, ECUADOR I helped CBC out with this episode of The Current, collecting testimonies from people on the streets of Quito and their reaction to the violence in the country. In short: people are worried.Jordan, 23, from Esmeraldas said several of his childhood friends were killed last year. Others have stopped going out alone or going …
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QUITO, ECUADOR - A few months ago, the California based World Affairs podcast contacted me to talk about a previous article I had written about Carmen Carcelen, an Ecuadorian woman who lives in the small town of Juncal, near the border with Colombia, and turned her home into a shelter for Venezuelans migrating through. By …
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QUITO, ECUADOR - In May, Al Jazeera interviewed me for their podcast The Take about how indigenous communities in Ecuador's Amazon were forced to deal with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, lock down, environmental disasters, and oil spills in their communities all at once. This is the podcast that resulted from that talk. (Photo Credit: Jeronimo …
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This was a live TV spot. I spoke with Turkish television station TRT World about the national strike and protests that began October 3. Thousands of people across the country partook in these protests, angry over a series of labor and tax reforms, and the cutting of gas and diesel subsidies that saw the price …
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My first live TV news spot. I spoke with TRT World about Ecuador enforcing their new policy for Venezuelans trying to cross the border, now requiring their passports. This was put into effect Saturday, Aug 18 and is going to make things a whole lot worse for a lot of people before it makes things …
RAMBUCHE, ECUADOR - A new step in sustainable architecture - After the major earthquake hit Ecuador in 2016, many people on the coast are still living in tents or makeshift homes out of scraps of wood and metal sheets. But some organizations are helping rebuild homes out of bamboo - a flexible material that´s resistant to …
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QUITO, ECUADOR - Ecuador's 2017 Elections have elected their first President in a wheelchair. And it seems fitting in a country that has some progressive voting rights laws for the disabled.
QUITO, ECUADOR - Ecuadorians elected a new President Sunday, voting to keep the current left-wing party of President Rafael Correa in power. Correa's former Vice-President Lenin Moreno won the election with 51% of the vote over his opponent, Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing CREO Party, who finished with 49%. Hundreds of supporters gathered at the …
EL DIAMANTE, COLOMBIA - En la vÃspera de la firma de los acuerdos de paz, las FARC abrieron su campamento de El Diamante, Caquetá. Charlamos con los guerrilleros para conocer sus sueños y sensaciones ahora que se acerca la paz. (Translation: On the eve of the signing of the peace accords, the FARC opened their …
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CALI, COLOMBIA - After over 50 years of civil war, the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas are closer than ever to signing a final peace deal. But some people in the country support the peace process more than others, mainly the countryÂ’s black and indigenous populations – Those who have been the most affected …
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Kimberley (Michelle) Brown 