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Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that Ecuador has replaced Colombia as the world’s largest exporter of cocaine and claimed that government officials and judges in Ecuador are working “hand-in-hand” with drug traffickers.
He added that Ecuador has also overtaken Colombia for the title of “murder capital of Latin America.”

There are certain dishes that arrive not as recipes, but as recollections, and Sauerbraten is one of them, because I did not so much learn it as absorb it, at the age of fifteen, in a part of Germany where the forests were black, the food was serious, and the map had a sinister border.

It was my first time on an airplane, one of those British European Airways liners wi...

Antigua and Barbuda has ​nominated Ecuador’s Maria ‌Fernanda Espinosa as candidate to be the next United ​Nations Secretary-General, ​a U.N. official told Reuters ⁠on Tuesday.

Maria ‌Fernanda Espinosa

Espinosa, a ​former foreign affairs minister ​and defense minister in Ecuador, was president of the U.N. General Assembly ​in New Yo...

By Zeynep Tufekci

There’s no question that another pandemic will strike, but no one knows when or which virus will be the cause. What we can determine with pretty good clarity is how ready we’ll be, how well we’re constructing obstacles to slow the path of emerging threats and how fast we’re learning lessons from painful experience.

As ...

Former President Lenin Moreno was in court Monday in Quito to face charges that he, his wife and daughter received millions of dollars in bribes from Sinohydro, the Chinese contractor for the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project. Moreno was vice president at the time the project was under construction.

Moreno and his family returned from their current home in Parag...