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Ecuador–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Ecuador and Russia. Both nations are members of the United Nations . Ecuador was one country of the countries that offered Edward Snowden political asylum while he was in Moscow 's Sheremetyevo International Airport .
Border incident between Peru and Ecuador of 1978 (1978) Ecuador Peru: Defeat [3] The base and the camp set up by the Ecuadorian troops are now controlled by the Peruvian Army; Paquisha War (1981) Ecuador Peru: Defeat. Status quo of 1942 in favor of Peru; Cenepa War (1995) Ecuador Peru: Both sides claimed victory. Brasilia Presidential Act
The Ecuadorian Drug War (Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en Ecuador, transl. 'War against drug trafficking in Ecuador') is an internal conflict in Ecuador waged by the Ecuadorian security forces against criminal groups since the beginning of 2018.
On 10 April, by a near unanimous vote (Ecuador voted against, El Salvador abstained, and Mexico was absent), the Permanent Council adopted a resolution "strongly condemn[ing] the intrusion into the premises of the Embassy of Mexico in Ecuador and the acts of violence against the well-being and dignity of the diplomatic personnel of the mission".
8–15 September – 53rd International Eucharistic Congress at Quito [29] 13 September – María Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador, is shot dead in a vehicle by gunmen believed to be working for drug gangs. [30]
On 9 March, Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol; Associated Press journalists on the scene took photos and videos of multiple bloodstained, pregnant mothers leaving the blown-out maternity ward. [15] One pregnant woman and her baby died after the bombing. [15] Russian officials provided different, shifting stances on the bombing. [16]
On 6 March 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama, invoking, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act, signed an executive order declaring a national emergency and ordering sanctions, including travel bans and the freezing of U.S. assets, against not-yet-specified individuals who had "asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without ...
The Paquisha War, Fake Paquisha War or Paquisha incident (Spanish: Guerra de Paquisha, Conflicto del Falso Paquisha o Incidente de Paquisha) was a military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.