QUITO, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday ratified the U.S. dollar as the nation's official currency and sole means of payment, the government announced.

Last October, Ben, the six-year-old Andean bear, came to the zoo with what they thought was a minor hotspot in his front right foot. But after monitoring it, the zoo said the hot spot was a ...

A German court on Monday resumes hearing a landmark case brought by a Peruvian farmer who argues that the German energy giant RWE’s emissions have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers ...

Roaming charges for cell phone communications is about to become a thing of the past for countries of The Andean Community (CAN - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Effective Jan. 1 ...

Six tourists wearing hard hats and heavy overalls sit, cramped up in a narrow mineshaft, with barely enough space to kneel.

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- The following introduces some pavilions expected to draw attention at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. Chile's indigenous-inspired pavilion to feature "Makun" textile ...

Legend has it that an indigenous Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa made the initial discovery of Cerro Rico's rich silver resources around 1545. Spanish colonists, who had just recently arrived ...

smuggling and organised retail theft from Panama to Brazil and along the Andean corridor, Latin American police officials say. Led by Hector "Nino" Guerrero, who escaped from the Tocoron prison in ...