International Relations in India & Beyond
An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country’s environmental ministry said Monday. Nearly two hectares (five acres) of a...
The final days of the Trump administration were marked by a largely unnoticed announcement which could turn out to be a milestone in the US-China competition for economic influence in Latin America and possibly...
However, these are not the last of the Venezuelans’ problems; the nations to whom the refugees sought to escape to are closing their doors on their faces – literally. Sunday saw Ecuador closing border crossings with Colombia to people who don’t have passports. This was seen as a certain way to reduce the bulk of refugees from entering other countries as passports are fairly difficult to obtain amidst the economic and political chaos.
In what appears to be a massive abusive of immigration procedures, dozens of fleeing Venezuelan migrants appeared to be openly violating regional migration laws, by crossing the border from Colombia into Ecuador, without holding...
On Wednesday, Ecuador officially declared a state of emergency in three of their provinces over serious security issues faced due to an unusually high number of Venezuelan migrants crossing over the border, attempting to...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told the leaders of three Central American nations Thursday that they must do more to stop the flow of migrants who enter the United States illegally. “This exodus must...
QUITO, Ecuador Ecuadoreans this Sunday voted to reverse a 2015 constitutional amendment that abolished presidential term limits, a result broadly seen as strengthening the power of President Lenín Moreno while dealing a potentially fatal...
