This article describes the diplomatic affairs,foreign policy and international relations of Ecuador
Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978. In 1951,he co-founded a political party,the Social Christian Party. In 1991,he left the Social Christian Party and formed a new conservative group,the Republican Union Party (PUR),before running for president for the third time in 1992.
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017,Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally,he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017,he has been living in exile in Belgium.
Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador,from 2017 to 2021. Moreno was vice president from 2007 to 2013,serving under President Rafael Correa.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ecuador since 8 July 2019 in accordance with a Constitutional Court ruling issued on 12 June 2019 that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional under the Constitution of Ecuador. The court held that the Constitution required the government to license and recognise same-sex marriages. It focused its ruling on an advisory opinion issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in January 2018 that member states should grant same-sex couples "accession to all existing domestic legal systems of family registration,including marriage,along with all rights that derive from marriage". The ruling took effect upon publication in the government gazette on 8 July.
The Revolutionary and Democratic Ethical Green Movement (MOVER,Spanish:Movimiento Verde Ético Revolucionario y Democrático) is a centre to centre-right neoliberal and environmentalist political party in Ecuador. In 2016,it had 979,691 members. Until 2021 it was known as the PAIS Alliance (Proud and Sovereign Homeland) (PAIS,Spanish:Alianza PAIS (Patria Altiva i Soberana)).
The 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off involving the South American countries of Ecuador,Colombia and Venezuela. It began with an incursion into Ecuadorian territory across the Putumayo River by the Colombian military on March 1,2008,leading to the deaths of over twenty militants,including Raúl Reyes and sixteen other members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This incursion led to increased tension between Colombia and Ecuador and the movement of Venezuelan and Ecuadorian troops to their borders with Colombia.
The foreign policy of the Rafael Correa administration (2007-2017) was the policy initiatives towards other states by the former President of Ecuador,as differed to past,or future,Ecuadorian foreign policy. Correa's foreign policy was somewhat similar to that of the other leaders of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) such as Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales. This entailed a rough division between relations with other states of the Americas and the rest of the world.
The 2010 Ecuadorian crisis took place on 30 September 2010,when National Police operatives blockaded highways,occupied the National Assembly,blocked Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito and JoséJoaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil,and took control of the premises of Ecuador TV,in what they claimed was a strike to oppose a government-sponsored law that supposedly reduced their benefits. Unrest and looting were reported in seven provinces of the country because of the lack of law enforcement.
Ricardo Armando Patiño Aroca is an Ecuadorian politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador from 2010 until 2016,under the government of President Rafael Correa. Previously he was Minister of Finance and Minister of the Coast. He is one of the ideologists of The Citizens' Revolution who with Correa wanted to gradually introduce a democratic socialist government in Ecuador. On 4 March 2016,he was named as Defense Minister by President Correa.
The Embassy of Ecuador in London is the diplomatic mission of Ecuador in the United Kingdom. It is headed by the ambassador of Ecuador to the United Kingdom. It is located in the Knightsbridge area of London,in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is in an apartment building which also houses the Embassy of Colombia as well as a number of residential apartments,near Harrods,Hyde Park,and Hans Place,at 3 Hans Crescent at the intersection with Basil Street,and it is close to Knightsbridge Underground station.
María Isabel Salvador is an Ecuadorian politician,diplomat and professional in the tourism industry. Currently,she serves as the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Haiti,appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in March 2023. She has served in two administrations as Minister of Tourism,Minister of Foreign Affairs,Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the Organization of American States,Parliamentarian at the Andean Parliament,and President of the Governing Council of the Galápagos. Before the public service chapter of her life she worked in the tourism industry as CEO of Air France in Ecuador and vicepresident of the national tourism chamber of commerce CAPTUR.
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza is an Ecuadorian businessman,banker and politician who served as the 47th president of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023. He was the country's first conservative president in nearly two decades,marking a shift in the country's electorate.
JoséSerrano Salgado is an Ecuadorian politician. He was President of the National Assembly between 14 May 2017 and 9 March 2018. He was Minister of the Interior from 13 May 2011 to 15 November 2016. He previously held other cabinet posts.
Johana Farina Pesántez Benítez is an Ecuadorian politician,she was Minister of Justice,Human Rights and Religious Affairs between 13 May 2011 and 18 June 2013. Since 24 May 2017 she has been judicial advisor to President Lenín Moreno.
Gabriela Alejandra Rivadeneira Burbano is an Ecuadorian politician. She was President of the National Assembly of Ecuador between May 2013 and May 2017. Previously she was Governor of Imbabura Province from 2011 to 2012.
On 17 January 2019,a vehicle was driven into the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá,Colombia. The truck forced its way into the facility,hit a wall and detonated,killing 22 people and injuring 68 others. Suicide attacks are unusual in Colombia. The car contained about 80 kilograms (180 lb) of pentolite. It was the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since the 2003 El Nogal Club bombing and the first terrorist attack on the capital since the 2017 Centro Andino bombing. The National Liberation Army (ELN) accepted responsibility for the attack and justified it as a response to the bombings made by the Colombian government during the unilateral ceasefire.
Ola Bini,is a Swedish programmer and Internet activist,working for the Digital Autonomy Center in Ecuador on issues of privacy,security and cryptography. He has been in Ecuador since 2013.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020,when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus. Ecuador was described in April as emerging as a possible "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America,with the city of Guayaquil overwhelmed to the point where bodies were being left in the street.
Andrés Arauz Galarza is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who ran for Vice President of Ecuador in the 2023 election. Arauz served as Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent in the Rafael Correa administration from 2015 to 2017. He also briefly served as President of the Citizen Revolution Movement from five months between December 2020 to May 2021.
