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The Ecuadorian government extends the country's state of emergency by a month.
2023-10-8

Ecuador declares a state of emergency in all prisons after gang clashes that killed 18 prisoners.
2023-07-25

Four people are killed after a boat sinks in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
2022-09-26

Ecuador declares a state of emergency over increases in migrant entry from Venezuela.
2018-08-9

Ecuador declares a state of emergency over increased activity at the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito. Its last major eruption was in 1877.
2015-08-16

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

A state of emergency in place in Ecuador after the 2010 Ecuador crisis is extended to Friday.
2010-10-5

A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état.
2010-09-30

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

New Zealand's Chatham Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands are among the other world areas struck by the resulting tsunami as the "biggest tsunami warning in history" gets underway.
2010-02-27