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The Government of Colombia issues a formal apology to the indigenous communities of the Amazon basin for their enslavement and mistreatment during the Amazon rubber boom in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2024-04-24

One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador.
2022-07-14

Protests continue for a second consecutive day across Ecuador due to an increase in the price of gasoline, as president Guillermo Lasso orders the deployment of security forces to highways in order to maintain order. Lasso also calls on indigenous populations and civil society groups to engage in dialogue.
2021-10-27

The Government of Ecuador says that the three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by rebel members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 26 March have been murdered. President Lenín Moreno orders military operations on the Colombian border to catch the murderers, offering a reward of US$100,000.
2018-04-13

Ecuador evacuates several villages around the Cotopaxi volcano ahead of a possible eruption.
2015-08-15

Residents of the Galápagos Islands conduct a strike and protest over decisions by the Ecuador National Assembly to axe cost of living subsidies causing cancellation of flights to and from the islands.
2015-06-12

Ecuador vows to protect the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon basin after international donors contribute $100 million to a protection fund.
2011-12-30

A court in the city of Lago Agrio, on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorean people, orders United States oil company Chevron to pay more than $8 billion in environmental damages for dumping wastewater in the Amazon River twenty years ago.
2011-02-14

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee removes Ecuador's Galápagos Islands from its list of endangered World Heritage Sites.
2010-07-29

Philip Alston expresses concern at the rise in murders in Ecuador and the declining number of murderers being caught.
2010-07-16