America Ecuador Scientists in the country have discovered 6 new species of rain frogs, and immediately recommended that they all be added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list of threatened species
America Ecuador The anti-corruption department is currently going through a crisis as the Secretary of Anti-Corruption, Luis Verdesoto, has resigned after an investigation was opened against him for alleged illicit activities committed within the electric sector
America Ecuador Evidence against President Guillermo Lasso’s relatives being involved in corruption has caused the government to hold a new investigation of all public entities, with help from the Interpol in order to detect all people possibly involved in corruption
America Ecuador A free-trade agreement has been successfully signed with China for Ecuador's exports up to USD$1 billion yearly, agreeing also to the protection of Chinese goods in the industrial, manufacturing, and livestock sectors
America Ecuador The country has signed an agreement with Colombia to neutralise the drug trafficking groups’ confrontations that take place in their shared border, which includes merging their soldiers and deploying almost 4.000 of them into the area