In December 2024, the bodies of four minors were found dismembered and burned. On Thursday, the Guayas Court’s Chamber for Criminal, Military Criminal, Police Criminal, and Traffic Matters upheld the pretrial detention of 16 members of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces. RELATED: Ecuadorian President Seeks Foreign Forces to Combat Drug-Related Insecurity On the night of December […]

Cases of police and military abuse notoriously affect marginal neighborhoods where black populations are concentrated. This week, the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDH) reported 27 cases of enforced disappearance and another killing of an Afro-descendant child by the military in Ecuador. RELATED: Ecuadorians To Elect Their President on Sunday CDH attorney […]

On Dec. 8, soldiers arrested four Black boys in Guayaquil and took them to the Taura military base. On Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office requested preventive detention for 16 Ecuadorian soldiers involved in the disappearance of four black children who were arrested in the Malvinas neighborhood, in the coastal city of Guayaquil, on December 8. RELATED: […]

For decades, he demanded the truth about the forced disappearance of his children. On Tuesday, Pedro Restrepo, the father of Colombian youths Andres and Santiago, who disappeared nearly 37 years ago in Ecuador, passed away at the age of 81. RELATED: Forced Disappearances in Guayaquil: UN Demands Immediate Responses from the Ecuadorian State “His fight […]

On Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemned El Salvador for the forced disappearance of Patricia Cuellar, Mauricio Cuellar, and Julia Perez, which occurred in 1982 in a context of state persecution against groups considered subversive. RELATED: El Salvador: Concerns About Constitutional Reform “The Court considers that the State is responsible for the […]