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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

Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso declares a nationwide state of emergency, citing an increase in drug-related crime.
2021-10-18

Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices. The protests have crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
2019-10-4

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

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