More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

Argentina and Spain have returned 567 heritage objects to Ecuador, the country’s minister of culture and heritage, Guillaume Long, announced at a press conference on 3 February. The formal handover took place in Quito, the country’s capital, in the presence of Argentina’s ambassador to Ecuador, Alberto Alvarez Tufillo, and the Cultural Counselor of the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador, Luis García, who said: “The protection of the heritage goods is a pressing need, beca