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This home of two former presidents is now a holiday paradise

You can live like a leader in this historic Ecuadorian hacienda, two hours from the capital.

  • Mark Daffey

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Tim Bringer competes in the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza final during Crankworx in Rotorua, New Zealand.
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World of photos, March 9, 2025

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The majestic Vinicunca in the Cusco region of Peru, also Rainbow Mountain.

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Baltasar Ushca, the last ice merchant of Chimborazo and his daugther. He is showing a piece of natural ice from Chimborazo’s glacia, Ecuador.

The iceman of Ecuador cometh no more, ending 60-year tradition

At least once a week for more than 60 years, Baltazar Ushca trekked up Ecuador’s highest peak to harvest the glacial ice believed to have health-boosting properties.

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Beauty queen shot dead after octopus ceviche order led killers to restaurant

Police are investigating the brazen daylight shooting of 23-year-old Landy Parraga amid media speculation the hit was ordered over an affair with a drug lord.

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Archaeologists have uncovered complexes of rectangular platforms arranged around low squares and along wide dug streets at the Kunguints site, Upano Valley in Ecuador.

Ancient cities to rival the Romans emerge in Amazon rainforest

A little-known culture built arrow-straight roads and canals through thick jungle to connect urban settlements where they ate sweet potatoes and drank beer.

  • Simeon Tegel
Gunmen storm a studio during live broadcast in Ecuador.

‘Still in shock’: Masked gunmen storm Ecuador TV studio live on air

The people, wearing balaclavas and largely dressed in black, were seen on the live feed wielding guns and accosting huddled staffers.

  • Allen Panchana and Gonzalo Solano
A supporter plays with a cardboard cutout of Daniel Noboa as she celebrates the early election results in Quito, Ecuador.

35-year-old political novice, banana fortune heir, wins Ecuador vote

The experienced businessman but inexperienced politician achieved something his father, the richest man in Ecuador, tried and failed to achieve five times.

  • Regina Garcia Cano and Gonzalo Solano
Fernando Villavicencio speaks during a campaign event at a school minutes before he was shot dead.

Seventh suspect in assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate killed in prison

The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential run-off election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.

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