2024 in Ecuador
Ecuador-related events during 2024
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Events in the year 2024 in Ecuador.
Incumbents
- President:
- Daniel Noboa
- Vice President:
- Verónica Abad Rojas
Events
January
- 9 January – 2024 conflict in Ecuador: President Daniel Noboa declares a state of emergency following the escape of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros drug cartel, from prison. The gangsters storm a TC Televisión newsroom in Guayaquil and launch a series of riots, kidnappings and explosions across the country.[1]
- 11 January – Researchers discover the Upano Valley sites, a network of ancient cities that is the oldest known settlement in the Amazon.[2]
- 14 January – 2024 Ecuadorian conflict: All 178 prison employees held hostage in at least seven prisons are released.[3]
- 15 January – Forty-three prisoners escape a prison in Esmeraldas.[4]
- 18 January – Public prosecutor Cesar Suarez who was investigating the gang attack on TC Television, is killed.[5]
- 22 January – 68 gang members are arrested after storming a hospital in Yaguachi.[6]
February
- 7 February – The Supreme Court of Ecuador decriminalizes euthanasia, becoming the second Latin American country to do so.[7]
- 9 February – Naranjal councilwoman Diana Carnero is killed.[8]
March
- 24 March – San Vicente mayor Brigitte García, the youngest mayor in the country, and one of her advisors are found shot dead in Manabí Province.[9]
- 31 March – Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil.[10]
April
- 4 April – Ecuador orders the expulsion of the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes comments deemed inappropriate on the effect of the Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio on the 2023 Ecuadorian general election.[11]
- 5 April – Former vice president Jorge Glas is arrested by Ecuadorian police after they raid the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he had sought asylum. In response, Mexico announces that it will break off relations with Ecuador, saying that some its diplomats were injured in the raid.[12]
- 6 April – Nicaragua suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito.[13]
- 16 April – Venezuela closes its diplomatic missions in Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy.[14]
- 21 April – Ecuadorian constitutional referendum: A majority of voters approve proposed constitutional changes by the government.[15]
- 27 April - An MI-171-E helicopter of the Ecuadorian Army crashes in Tiwino, Pastaza Province, killing eight people.[16]
May
- 3 May - One person is killed and several others are injured in a road collision involving five vehicles in Machachi, Pichincha Province.[17]
Scheduled events
- 8–15 September – 53rd International Eucharistic Congress at Quito[18]
Deaths
- 9 January: Diego Gallardo, 31, singer-songwriter, shot[19]
- 17 January: César Suárez, 38, prosecutor[20]
- 7 February: Diana Carnero, 29, politician, shot.[21]
- 9 February: Jenny Estrada, 83, journalist, writer and historian.[22]
- 28 February: Félix Aráuz, 88, painter.[23]
Holidays
Source:[24]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 12–13 February – Carnival
- 29 March – Good Friday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 24 May – Battle of Pichincha
- 10 August – National Day Holiday
- 9 October – Independence of Guayaquil
- 1 November – All Souls' Day
- 3 November – Independence of Cuenca
- 25 December – Christmas Day
References
- ^ "Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate". AP News. 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ "Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon". 2024-01-11. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador prison staff held hostage by inmates all freed". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
- ^ "Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured". MercoPress. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV studio shot dead". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Ecuador police arrest gang members who stormed hospital". 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador becomes second Latin American state to decriminalise euthanasia". 2024-02-08. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Ecuador's youngest mayor found shot to death alongside staffer". Reuters. March 25, 2024.
- ^ "Zeker dertien mensen doodgeschoten door gewapende bendes in Ecuador". nos.nl (in Dutch). 2024-03-31. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Ecuador declares Mexican ambassador persona non grata and says she will leave 'shortly'". Associated Press. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Mexico's president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador, after police raid embassy". Associated Press. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ "Nicaragua cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after raid on Mexican embassy". Associated Press. April 6, 2024.
- ^ "Venezuela closes its embassy in Ecuador to protest the police raid on the Mexican Embassy there". Associated Press. April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Ecuadoreans give nod to tightened security amid persisting gang violence". Al Jazeera. April 22, 2024.
- ^ "¿Quiénes eran los militares que murieron en accidente de helicóptero en la Amazonía ecuatoriana?" (in Spanish). El Universo. April 27, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
- ^ "Choque múltiple ocasiona una muerte y deja varios heridos en Machachi" (in Spanish). Vistazo.com. May 3, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Ecuador. Inicia la preparación para el próximo Congreso Eucarístico Internacional" [Ecuador. Preparation begins for the next International Eucharistic Congress] (in Spanish). Vatican News. October 26, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ^ "El músico Diego Gallardo falleció por una bala perdida en medio del caos de violencia en Guayaquil". www.ecuavisa.com (in Spanish). 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ecuador prosecutor investigating TV studio attack shot dead in his vehicle, attorney general says - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ K.G. (2024-02-08). "A manos de sicarios murió Diana Carnero, concejal de Ecuador". www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ha muerto la periodistan Jenny Estrada". La República EC (in Spanish). 2024-02-09. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Fallece Félix Aráuz, el 'artista de las caritas', a los 88 años". El Universo (in Spanish). 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ecuador Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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