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

Extraordinary and exotic: Why now is the time to visit South America

There are more flights and South America remains better value than Europe or the US. Here is our beginner’s guide to travelling around this continent of extremes.

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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.

Landy Parraga posted her lunch location to her 173,000 followers on Instagram.

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.

  • James Badcock
Emma Pidden waits for her bus on Congress Street in Portland, Maine following a spring snowstorm.
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World of photos, April 6, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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
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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.

Andrea Gonzalez, running mate of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, has been named leader of the Build party.

Party of assassinated presidential hopeful picks replacement

Ballots have already been printed, but votes for the slain Fernando Villvicencio will automatically transfer to Andrea Gonzalez, who was to be his running mate, as the new leader of the party.

  • Reuters
A soldier pats down a driver at a road block in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Organised crime gang members arrested over assassination of presidential candidate

Six Colombian nationals with gang links have been arrested over the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

  • Alexandra Valencia

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