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Explosive devices disguised as USB flash drives are sent to least five news organizations in Ecuador; one journalist at Ecuavisa in Guayaquil suffers minor injuries.
2023-03-20

The Ecuadoran environmental ministry reports that approximately 2 ha of the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve have been contaminated following an oil spill attributed to a ruptured pipeline.
2022-01-31

Aid starts to flow in after an earthquake kills over 270 people in Ecuador.
2016-04-18

At least eight children have died in the past few weeks in Ecuador's Amazon basin after being bitten by rabid bats.
2011-12-3

Ecuador throws its support behind Peru in their demands for the return of over 40,000 Machu Picchu artifacts taken by US explorer Hiram Bingham III, and now in Yale's possession.
2010-10-26

All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead.
2010-10-20

46 police officers in Ecuador are arrested on suspicion of involvement in last week's uprising.
2010-10-6

Philip Alston, the international law scholar who recently stepped down as the United Nations's senior official on extrajudicial killings, calls for the UN to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan and to convict those responsible.
2010-09-26

42 killed, 11 injured in bus crash 55 miles south of Quito, Ecuador.
2010-08-30

Ecuador says it will not drill for oil in the Yasuni National Park for at least a decade after being provided with $3.6 billion (£2.26 billion) - half the money it would receive from selling the oil - in a deal signed with the United Nations.
2010-08-3