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Washington (AFP) - Democracy faced sharp, widespread setbacks worldwide in 2023 with violence and manipulation marring a series of elections, Freedom House said Thursday. In its annual report, the US-funded pro-democracy advocacy and research group switched classifications for two countries, downgrading Ecuador from free to partly free and upgrading Thailand from not free to partly free. Overall, political rights and civil liberties declined in 52 countries and only 21 countries saw improvements, the 18th straight year that global freedom has declined and a much more lopsided trend than a year...
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Mexico City (AFP) - When a dozen Latin American presidents and foreign ministers meet on Sunday in Mexico, they'll face a huge task: finding a solution to migration flows roiling two continents as people make their way to the United States. This year alone, 1.7 million migrants arrived at the Mexican-US border. Immigration is becoming a huge political issue in both nations, which each have presidential elections next year. September alone saw 60,000 migrants arrive in Mexico from Venezuela, along with 35,000 Guatemalans and 27,000 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government. "It is very dif...
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Puerto Ayora (Ecuador) (AFP) - With a long grey beard and old-school brown suit, a Charles Darwin lookalike observes marine iguanas and the blue-footed booby - an iconic bird on the Galapagos Islands. Two centuries after the British biologist visited the archipelago which inspired his theory of evolution, a retired US professor has tracked part of his journey all while dressed as his 19th-century hero. Kenneth Noll, 66, professor emeritus in microbiology at the University of Connecticut, has dedicated himself to keeping Darwin's memory alive. For the past eight years, he has adopted a British ...
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Paris (AFP) - Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead Wednesday at an election rally in the nation's capital. Here is a look at other recent major political assassinations worldwide. Shinzo Abe, 2022In a drama that sent shock waves through a country with low gun crime, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who had resigned from his position in 2020 but remained a key political voice, was campaigning for his ruling party when a lone gunman killed him on July 8, 2022. Abe's accused killer targeted the former leader believing he had ties to the Unification Church,...
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Latacunga (Ecuador) (AFP) - At least 15 prisoners died Monday in the latest riots to strike Ecuador's troubled prison system, officials in the South American country reported. The riots left 15 people dead and 21 injured, said a statement from SNAI, the agency that manages Ecuador's prisons. The SNAI had earlier announced that tactical units were continuing operations to regain control of the facility, located in the southern Ecuadoran city of Latacunga. The prison, which houses about 4,300 prisoners and is one of the largest in the country, has been the site of seven major outbreaks of violen...
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Panama City (AFP) - The United States will increase aid to Latin America to combat HIV/AIDS, First Lady Jill Biden said on Saturday during a visit to Panama. Biden made the announcement while visiting the Casa Hogar el Buen Samaritano -- "The Good Samaritan Home" -- a shelter east of Panama City for people living with HIV. Biden's spokesman Michael La Rosa said in a statement that the United States will send an additional $80.9 million to Latin America, $12 million of which will go to Panama. "The State Department is making an announcement for increased funding for PEPFAR," Biden said, referri...
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Quito (AFP) - The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 22 people in Quito, inundating homes, swamping cars and sweeping away athletes and spectators on a sports field, officials said Tuesday. Twenty people are missing and 47 injured, Ecuador's SNGRE emergency service said on Twitter. Video footage showed torrents of water carrying stones, mud and debris down streets in the Ecuadoran capital, as rescuers helped inhabitants wade through the fast-running currents to safety. Many in the city of 2.7 million people were taken to shelters. Rain that drenched Quito for 1...
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Quito (AFP) - The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 18 people in Quito, washing away cars, damaging homes and sweeping away volleyball players and spectators on a sports field, officials said Tuesday. Sixteen people have been reported missing and 46 injured, six of them critically, Ecuador's SNGRE emergency service said on Twitter. Video footage shows torrents of water carrying stones, mud and debris down streets in the Ecuadoran capital as rescuers help inhabitants wade through the fast-running currents to safety. Many were brought to shelters. The deluge da...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Tuesday to Ecuador and Colombia in a bid to support and broaden ties with Latin America's democracies, amid a new spike in tension with Venezuela. In both Ecuador and Colombia, Blinken will meet right-leaning elected leaders, part of President Joe Biden's push of promoting democracy but also keeping up the pressure against leftist strongmen in Latin America. Blinken "will highlight how specifically countries like Ecuador and Colombia have been able to build on their democratic values and commitment to benefit their peoples," said B...
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Quito (AFP) - Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso on Monday declared a state of emergency in the country grappling with a surge in drug-related violence, and ordered the mobilization of police and military in the streets. "Starting immediately, our Armed Forces and police will be felt with force in the streets because we are decreeing a state of emergency throughout the national territory," said the president in a speech broadcast by the state channel EcuadorTV. "In the streets of Ecuador there is only one enemy: drug trafficking," declared the right-wing leader, adding that "in recent years ...
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