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One of the most extraordinary people I have met in 10 days of travelling around Peru and Ecuador has been Alberto Costa. He’s head of Ecuador’s leading research group now, but until 2007 was the second most powerful man in the country after the...
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Mugabe’s health has found its way into the headlines once again.
Hardly surprising, since he is 86 years old and really should have retired years ago. But...
made popular Sep 28 2010
A second migrant survived the massacre of 72 Central and South Americans near the border with the U.S., Mexican authorities confirmed Wednesday, and they said he has...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Ecuador’s president and Mexican officials confirmed Wednesday that a second person, a Honduran, had survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico last...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Four children have died and more than 500 people have been attacked by vampire bats in a remote Amazon region in Peru.
The country’s health ministry has rushed...
made popular Aug 16 2010
A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Ecuador and parts of Peru Thursday, but its epicenter was deep underground in a remote Amazonian region and only one injury and...
made popular Aug 13 2010
It is a call you would expect from Fidel Castro or Hugo Chávez: soak Latin America’s rich to help the poor and build a fairer society. “In many places it...
made popular Jun 9 2010
An Ecuadorian court sentenced three men to 16 years in prison for last September’s death in Quito of French scientist Charlotte Mazoyer.
The court ruling establishes...
made popular Apr 29 2010
Banco Pichincha, Ecuador’s largest, announced Wednesday that it will become the first Latin American commercial bank in Spain after clearing a final regulatory...
made popular Mar 25 2010
Organizations representing Ecuador’s indigenous peoples announced the rupture of the dialogue that they had been maintaining with government representatives and...
made popular Feb 23 2010
The Ecuadorian government has said it has overcome an electricity crisis and may even be in a position to export power to Colombia and Venezuela.
made popular Feb 19 2010
Two fire-red birds swooped screeching through the forest, flared their yellow and blue wings and alighted on the upright trunk of a dead palm tree. In the green...
made popular Nov 23 2009
TENS of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Ecuador’s president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve.
Germany...
made popular Oct 27 2009
The mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador’s Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a...
made popular Oct 2 2009
Ecuador refuses to consider Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC terrorists, its Defense Minister said Monday. Quito prefers using the term “irregular...
made popular Aug 18 2009
Brazil, Chile and Spain have challenged a US decision to use and expand military bases in Colombia, saying they fear heightened tensions in Latin America.
President...
made popular Aug 4 2009
A diary reported to have come from a top Colombian guerrilla leader killed last year says key officials in Ecuador accepted money from the rebels and had connections...
made popular Aug 3 2009
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Ecuador President Rafael Correa Sunday said if Colombia carries out another cross border attack like that on a FARC camp in 2008, Ecuador’s response will be...
made popular Jul 27 2009
In May, I went to Guayaquil, with sewage as my calling card!
Guayaquil is Ecuador’s largest city and center of commerce and shipping, located at the mouth of the...
made popular Jun 10 2009
The payments on the $246.9 million loan were made on Thursday, the foreign ministry said in a statement. As a result, Brazil will now send back its ambassador to the...
made popular Jan 12 2009
Costa de Sauipe (Brazil), Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) The leaders of the Latin American countries discussed steps to deal with the global financial crisis at the 36th summit...
made popular Dec 17 2008
Brazilian construction company Odebrecht says it has accepted terms from the Ecuadorean government to end a dispute over a troubled hydroelectric plant.
made popular Oct 4 2008
Vijender Kumar created history on Wednesday after he became India’s third medal winner at the Beijing Olympics. Vijender defeated Carlos Gongora of Ecaudor, assuring...
made popular Aug 20 2008
The government of Rafael Correa took over 3 television stations and nearly 200 private companies including TC Television, TC Noticias, as well as insurance,...
made popular Jul 14 2008
A new inalienable right could be enshrined soon in Ecuador’s constitution: the pursuit of sexual happiness for women.
made popular May 5 2008
The teenage survivors of a bus crash that killed five young women on a gap-year adventure in Ecuador were preparing to return to Britain last night after telling their...
made popular Apr 14 2008
If your grocery bill is going up, you’re not alone.
From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers...
made popular Apr 12 2008
# Ecuador and Venezuela have announced they are sending troops to their borders with Colombia, in response to the killing of a FARC leader in Ecuadorian territory.
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made popular Mar 3 2008
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Ecuadorians cast their ballot during Ecuador’s presidential election in Madrid, Sunday, April 26, 2009. About 400,000 Ecuadorians live in Spain. President Rafael Correa was widely favored to win re-election Sunday. He might even have a shot at becoming...
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