Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Ecuador’s Military Detained an 11-Year-Old Boy. Then He Was Found Dead.

Facing surging gang violence & drug-linked crime, Ecuador’s government launched a military crackdown that critics allege has ‘disappeared’ innocents, including 11-year-old Steven Gerald Medina Lajones ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN

In Ecuador port city, residents divided over possible return of US military

This Sunday, Ecuadorans will vote on whether to allow foreign military bases to return to the country. About 61 percent of ...
KRDO

They left the US for Ecuador for a better life. Then the country was plunged into a state of emergency

(CNN) — When Ruth Harrison and Dan Phillips relocated from the US to Ecuador two years ago, their main goal was to enjoy a peaceful retirement. Life had other ideas. Just as the couple – who have ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Ecuador in Transition: Marcel Mettelsiefen on Documenting a Nation in Crisis

Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen talks about making the documentary ‘Drug War in Ecuador,’ an on-the-ground look at the country’s ongoing crisis.

Ecuador, not Everest, is the closest place on Earth to outer space; here’s the reason

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's ...