Desirée Yépez is a journalist, fact-checker and author. Yépez, who is from Ecuador and resides in Palo Alto, California, ...

Ecuadorian music is far from a monolith. The heavily indigenous Andes and coastal cities like Ezmeraldas, with a sizable Afro-Ecuadorian population, have very different rhythms and styles. Molina ...

The wife and young son of Afro-Ecuadorian professional soccer player Jackson Rodríguez were safely rescued by police April 24, authorities confirmed, following a harrowing kidnapping from their ...

The report said some Afro-Ecuadorian families, including children as young as 12, were doing “work remunerated significantly below the minimum wage in a form of debt bondage.” ...

De Schutter met with President Guillermo Lasso, representatives of his administration, members of the Afro-Ecuadorian community and indigenous groups, among others.

Afro-Ecuadorians in a community are grieving after four Black boys were killed in December, allegedly following an encounter with the country’s military. The four boys were last seen alive after ...

She lives in Esmeraldas, a largely Afro-Ecuadorian city on the coast of Ecuador, today considered one of the most violent in Latin America. News of decapitated bodies in the streets, shootouts between ...