Ecuador News » Sucumbio News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Siona Indigenous Community Under Siege in Ecuador’s Sucumbíos Province
Indigenous people at the Colombia-Ecuador border are facing increased threats on their homelands Indigenous people at the Colombia-Ecuador border are reporting an increase in threats, extortions and ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán hail court-ordered end to mining on their land
A court in Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province has ordered that the mining concessions already in operation on territory claimed by the Cofán indigenous people, and those currently in the process of being ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Sucumbíos: Lawless Ecuador Border Province Is Sanctuary for Traffickers
In January 2019, heavily armed gunmen traveling in a truck and on a motorbike ambushed a small group of anti-narcotics agents in Sucumbíos, the Ecuadorean province that borders Colombia in the Amazon ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Ecuador: Tribe sees how oil industry affects forest on ‘Toxic Tour’
Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Ecuador region where Brit 'lynched and burned alive' locked in spiralling gang war
The region of the small nation where a man was lynched and burned alive by a gang of rioting locals is locked in a vicious spiralling gang war that has claimed hundreds of lives. The unnamed man, who ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: Ecuador imposes state of emergency before razor-close election
On the eve of a too-close-to-call presidential election, Ecuador declared a state of emergency Saturday in seven of its 24 provinces, including the capital Quito, saying it was needed to fight a ...
News Ecuador » Sucumbio: AMERICA/ECUADOR - Appointment of vicar apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Moacir Goulart de Figueredo, M.S.C., until now superior of the order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the province ...