As part of the country’s plan to regularise prison information and possibly release inmates to ease prison population, the government just conducted the first penitentiary census in its history

Mining reform and Law on Sustainability and Efficiency of Spending by Decentralized Autonomous Governments faced 34 lawsuits alleging unconstitutionality; the latter is second most challenged proposal by Noboa after the repealed Public Integrity Law

Trade unions in Ecuador have called a national strike against a government labour decree allowing the 40-hour workweek to be reorganised into shifts of up to 12 hours a day, arguing it undermines workers’ rights

Ecuador has recorded a historic high of 29.402 million dollars in non-oil exports in 2025, up 18% from 2024, driven by strong growth in shrimp, cacao and banana sales to markets such as the EU, US and China, boosting diversification beyond crude oil