QUITO, ECUADOR – It’s 6.30pm in Quito, and Anamary Mazorra Vázquez’sflat has fallen into darkness after weeks of government-mandated power cuts to manage Ecuador’s electricity crisis. She puts clothes away by the light of her phone while her husband, Roberto Vaca,seated on the bed by the window, uses the streetlights to help feed their two-year-oldContinueContinue reading “‘I’m switched off’: frustration and fatigue as power cuts keep Ecuador in the dark (The Guardian)”
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‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence (The Guardian)
QUITO, ECUADOR – In a small corner of Ecuador’s Yasuní national park is the village of Llanchama. This Indigenous Quichua community is carved out of the dense Amazonian rainforest along the Tiputini River. But for nearly 10 years an entirely different development has been attempting to establish itself on the village’s borders: the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT)ContinueContinue reading “‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence (The Guardian)”
A month of war: How did once-serene Ecuador descend into a nightmare of narco violence? (Courthouse News)
QUITO, ECUADOR – In November, Juana Francis Bone’s 14-year-old niece went to the corner store for a minute and never came back. When her family filed a police report, they were told each officer had some 60 missing person cases on their shoulders. Her niece would be just one more. Francis is a law studentContinueContinue reading “A month of war: How did once-serene Ecuador descend into a nightmare of narco violence? (Courthouse News)”
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