Ecuador
nation state
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| Location | South America |
| Leader | President of Ecuador |
| Type | nation state |
| Offered asylum to Julian Assange. | |
Ecuador is a nation state in South America.
Political asylum
Ecuador offered political asylum to Julian Assange, who was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for some years.
Rights of nature
Ecuador was the first nation state to recognize Rights of Nature in its constitution.[1]
Dead intelligence chief
In August 2026 Ecuador's intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi, his wife, fashion designer and US citizen Stephany Hollihan, and three others were killed in a helicopter that crashed at Mount Ololokwe in central Kenya. Michele Sensi-Contugi was a close ally of president (and alleged drug trafficker) Daniel Noboa. The Italian-Ecuadorean businessman had had close links to Noboa even before he was chosen to lead the intelligence agency. Supposedly the group was on holiday and the accident was a 'normal' one.[2]