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The latest sordid massacre in Ecuador's interminable cycle of prison violence saw 20 inmates killed and some mutilated last Sunday at the El Turi penitentiary.
After another bloody year in Ecuador's interminable cycle of prison violence, authorities appear no closer to taking control.
Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon In the Ecuadoran Amazon, at least 447 flares have been burning gas for decades. Local communities say these flares are responsible for the high cancer rates in the area. The Sucumbíos Provincial Court ruled in January that the Ecuadoran state had ignored the rights of nine girls to live in a healthy environment. It also found that the government had violated their rights to good health by not providing clean technologies that would avoid contamination. “I’m very happy because, finally, justice has been served. We’re goin...