Ecuador

October 14, 2019
Wilma Salgado

The recent protests in Ecuador represent more than just fuel subsidies, but a stagnant economy leaving all but the rich behind. 

September 23, 2019
Jeffery R. Webber

Political theorist Mabel Thwaites Rey discusses the rise and decline of progressive governments in Latin America, dynamics that spurred the “end of the cycle,” and characteristics of the new Right.

March 13, 2019
Timm Benjamin Schützhofer

In Ecuador, President Lenín Moreno has allied with his political opponents to implement a conservative economic agenda, threatening to undo the country’s strides in tackling poverty and inequality over the past decade.

September 27, 2018
Moira Birss and Carlos Mazabanda

The recent approval of a new oil concession in Ecuador fails to fulfill Indigenous rights enshrined in the country’s 2008 Constitution

November 3, 2017
Lindsay Ofrias

For twenty years, Chevron-Texaco dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into Ecuador's northern Amazon. How have communities responded?

July 19, 2017
Linda Farthing and Thea N. Riofrancos

Part 1 in our two-part discussion on the state of the Left in Latin America, originally presented at Left Forum in a panel sponsored by NACLA and Jacobin Magazine in New York City on June 2, 2017.

April 20, 2017
Douglas McRae

This winter's El Niño Costero has ravaged both Peru and Ecuador. Why have the impacts in Peru been so much more destructive?

April 11, 2017
Gregory Wilpert

Ecuador’s president-elect Lenín Moreno defeats neoliberal candidate Guillermo Lasso amidst an economic downturn and political controversy.  

January 26, 2017
Moira Birss

From attempts to close Ecuador’s leading environmental rights NGO to megaprojects on indigenous lands, Rafael Correa’s government continues to criminalize and threaten environmental activists and indigenous people. 

October 17, 2016
Helen Hazelwood Isaac

A NACLA Radio interview with Manuel Pérez-Rocha on his article, "Free Trade's Chilling Effects," from the latest NACLA Report, Free Trade 2.0. and one way that free trade agreements enrich foreign companies at the expense of poor countries. 

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