Since I moved to Ecuador a dozen years ago, I’ve made a point of visiting my friends in Vilcabamba at least once a year. I was enchanted with this peaceful, isolated valley the first time I saw it in 1998 and even considered settling there until business considerations – I need to be c... [More]

The Ecuadorian government needs to decide how it will treat the debts, which accounted for two-thirds of the $10 billion the country owed last December ahead of its second default in a decade, Correa said yesterday in Quito. As with the defaulted bonds, criminal acts were committed by previous gov... [More]

Concerns about data storage and privacy were among the issues that held up the transfer of name-matching duties from the airlines to the government, which was mandated by Congress in 2004. While many of those objections have been addressed by narrowing the scope of the information collected,... [More]

World Trade Organization members agreed on Thursday to allow Ecuador to impose temporary import restrictions because of balance of payments problems. The move was hailed by rich and developing countries as proof that the rules-based trading system umpired by the WTO was working well despite ... [More]