Daniel Alarcón

Ecuador’s role in the World Cup depends on where Byron Castillo was born.

How Ecuador’s largest city endured one of the world’s most lethal outbreaks of COVID-19.

The uncertain future of the Arecibo Observatory, and the end of an era in space science.

Even when there was, objectively speaking, very little to celebrate, supporting the Peruvian national team felt necessary to me, a way of reminding myself who I was.

Gangs like Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are destroying the country. But what happens when you give the police unlimited power to fight them?

This is how my biculturalism manifests in sports: I sit down to watch Peru play against Brazil, believing against all reason that we will win.

“We had to fall into the mud,” a lifelong fan of River Plate, Argentina’s most successful soccer club, said. “We had to begin again.”

Sports writers ran out of superlatives years ago, so I’ll keep it simple: there is no player like Lionel Messi.

On the occasion of the release, in France, of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, “The Skin I Live In” (which will be screened in October at the New York …