On December 7, 2025, in Joya de Los Sachas, Ecuador, @aletita_alegre shared a humorous video capturing a fishing mishap at a fish pond. In the clip, Orlando, 34, and Jorly, 21, throw an atarraya ...

A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation ...

A decision by the Ecuadorian government to pay Chevron roughly $220 million following an investor-state arbitration ruling has ignited intense criticism from Indigenous communities, human rights ...

By the early 2010s, however, the sector faced significant risks. Overfishing, fueled by strong global demand for tuna ...

In 1998, the Balao Maritime Terminal—the port in Esmeraldas from where part of Ecuador’s oil is exported—witnessed one of the ...

Ecuador’s shrimp exports soared by 35% in October with shipments reaching 116,109 tonnes, lifting the total January-October ...

SAN MATEO, Ecuador — Oswaldo Angulo is a born fisherman, like generations before him. The oldest of his brothers, he dropped out of high school in Ecuador to learn the trade with his father. When he ...

In Ecuador, gangs have unleashed a wave of violence and extortion, spurring an unprecedented exodus. For Anthony Angulo, that meant fleeing his fishing village for factory work in New Jersey and ...

Ecuador's fishing, aquaculture, and agricultural industries faced over 900 extortion threats between mid-July and August 2024, according to a report to a report by the National Chamber of Aquaculture ...

ABOARD THE HUALCOPO, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy is ready to protect the seas around the Galapagos Islands from illegal fishing by foreign ships whose annual visits threaten marine wildlife in ...

Ecuador’s navy protects the Galapagos from illegal fishing, conducting training since 2018. The Chinese ship Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 was captured with 300 tonnes of fish and renamed Hualcopo. Involved U.S ...