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Political Landslides: Water and the Environment in Ecuador’s Presidential Elections
On February 12, a wall of rocks and mud buried Chanchán, a small community in the Andean province of Chimborazo in central Ecuador… Read More Political Landslides: Water and the Environment in Ecuador’s Presidential Elections

Reserva Ecológica Antisana
The Reserva Ecológica Antisana, located in the Andean cordillera southeast of Quito, is one of the few remaining areas in the Ecuadorian highlands where relatively large populations of endemic plants and animals continue to thrive. … Read More Reserva Ecológica Antisana

IMF Approves $2 Billion Loan for Ecuador to Shore up Economy
The International Monetary Fund approved $2 billion to help Ecuador “restore macroeconomic stability and pursue the unfinished structural agenda” … Read More IMF Approves $2 Billion Loan for Ecuador to Shore up Economy

The Tablet of Disgrace
“esta es una placa de la ignominia, esta es una placa en donde consta y queda constancia para las futuras generaciones que los más altos personeros de un país cometieron un delito: recibieron coimas y con esas coimas se beneficiaron personalmente o pretendieron perennizar a su movimiento político en este país.”… Read More The Tablet of Disgrace
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Survival and Subjugation in Colonial Latin America
Indigenous elites stood at the intersection of political subjugation and cultural survival in Spanish and Portuguese America.… Read More Survival and Subjugation in Colonial Latin America

Peasant Power in Andean History
Like many global hot spots of the twentieth century, the Andes is marked by its history of structural inequality, racial conflict, and legacies of poverty and violence. … Read More Peasant Power in Andean History

Between Two Worlds: Andean Haciendas in Colonial History
When historian James Lockhart published “Encomienda and Hacienda” in 1969, the modern historiography on the topic was already more than forty-years-old.… Read More Between Two Worlds: Andean Haciendas in Colonial History
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Cayambe Mitma Sites After Incan Conquest: Map
Long before the Spanish conquest, an invading army of soldiers fighting for the Inca state conquered what is today northern Ecuador. … Read More Cayambe Mitma Sites After Incan Conquest: Map

Geographic landmarks and cultural sites at Guachalá: Map
Geographic landmarks and cultural sites around Guachalá, including Pambamarca complex and territory southeast of the Río Pisque. … Read More Geographic landmarks and cultural sites at Guachalá: Map

Plotting Pachakuti: Incan Conquest Sites in the Galvin Murúa
Martín de Murúa was a Basque Mercedarian friar who wrote the Historia General del Piru (c.1580-1616), an illustrated history of what are today the South American nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. … Read More Plotting Pachakuti: Incan Conquest Sites in the Galvin Murúa
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Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia: Paige
Paige, Jeffery M. Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020.… Read More Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia: Paige

Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito: Fine-Dare
Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.… Read More Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito: Fine-Dare

Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito: Gomezjurado
Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Amor y sexo : en la historia de Quito. Quito: PPL Impresores, 2019.… Read More Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito: Gomezjurado
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Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Lewis
Lewis, Tammy L. Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, 2017.… Read More Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Lewis

Investigación Subacuática en las Lagunas de Yahuarcocha: Echeverría and Athens
Echeverría-Almeida and Athens underwater survey of the Laguna Yahuarcocha (Lake of Blood) builds on earlier subaquatic research performed in the lake in the early 2000s.… Read More Investigación Subacuática en las Lagunas de Yahuarcocha: Echeverría and Athens

The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic: Crawford
Matthew Crawford’s The Andean Wonder Drug is a fascinating history of quina, the medicinal tree bark of the chinchona tree, native to the Andean forests of South America. … Read More The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic: Crawford
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Flattening the Curve: Ecuador and Brazil Pull Ahead in August
Ecuador virus cases plunged 37% in August, the most in South America after Brazil (40%), according to the WHO.… Read More Flattening the Curve: Ecuador and Brazil Pull Ahead in August

Ecuador Credit Talks Silent on Debts to History
Ecuador won approval to restructure about a third of its international bonds this week, alleviating part of the fiscal hangover from the Correa administration’s ruinous decade in power.… Read More Ecuador Credit Talks Silent on Debts to History

Quitoloma: Commanding Sites in Forgotten Places
Quitoloma is an Incan fortress on a hill above El Quinche, east of Quito. The site was part of what is known as the Pambamarca fortress complex, thought to be the largest pre-Colombian military site in the Americas. … Read More Quitoloma: Commanding Sites in Forgotten Places
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