Source: Ecuador and the United Arab Emirates will begin negotiations for a trade agreement
La Hora
February 28, 2024
Translated by appThe Government of the United Arab Emirates would be interested in investing in logistics services and the creation of a regional distribution hub in Ecuador.
This February 28, 2024, the Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, Sonsoles García , spoke with Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Commerce of the United Arab Emirates , about the potential of the commercial relationship between both countries.
As noted many times in the past, the Arabs and the Latin American nations do a lot of business together. And they are interested in economic alliances.
As for Ecuador, at the time of this post, Wikipedia reports that Ecuador has only about 2,000 Muslims out of a country of over 16 million – or roughly only 1 out of 9,000 people.
The (Christian) Lebanese demographic is about 100,000 though, about 50 times the number of Muslims. Again, as noted, that vast majority of Arabs in Latin America are Christian. The Lebanese came to Ecuador fleeing the tyranny of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.
Yet, amazingly, Ecuador has had three presidents with Arab ancestry.
What we see is that the Arabs tend to be elites in South America.
Yes, I know that – at the time of this writing – Ecuador is having a national crisis over gangs, but that does not change the fact that Arabs have done well in Ecuador.