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One person is injured and many buildings are damaged after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Muisne, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
2023-06-27

Fifteen people are killed and 21 others injured when a prison riot open fire in a mass shooting in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador.
2022-10-3

A judge in Ecuador rules against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who had contested new rules imposed on him in the country's embassy in London. Assange had argued that the conditions violated his "fundamental rights and freedoms", and were intended to force him to leave. His lawyers have appealed against the ruling. Assange took refuge in the embassy six years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden in a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.
2018-10-30

A meeting is held in Lima attended by representatives from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, to develop requests for aid in regards to Venezuelan immigrants, which will be sent to organisations including the United Nations and International Red Cross. Yesterday, there was a similar meeting in Bogotá. A larger meeting has been set-up to be held in Quito in early September, to be attended by representatives from 14 countries and 10 international organisations.
2018-08-29

People in Ecuador start burying their dead as the death toll from the earthquake passes 500.
2016-04-20

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

Ecuador recognises Palestine as an independent state within its 1967 borders.
2010-12-25

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

Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law.
2010-07-21