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A man who made clandestine video recordings used to discredit Ecuador in a $27 billion oil contamination lawsuit is a convicted felon with a history of legal troubles, The Associated Press has learned.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday called new arms and energy deals between Russia and Ecuador just a beginning as Moscow strives to deepen ties in Latin America.
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.
Robert F. Kennedy's daughter sided with Ecuadorean Indians and farmers in their $27 billion environmental lawsuit against oil giant Chevron, saying Thursday after visiting former Amazon drilling sites that the case compares unfavorably to the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill.
When Daniela Lopez visited her parents' hometown in Ecuador this summer, she talked to her mother every night on the phone.
Ecuador says it will consider changes to draft mining and water laws that provoked a clash with Indians last week that claimed a protester's life.
An Ecuadorean court has said it will allow a judge to withdraw from overseeing a $27 billion lawsuit charging the Chevron Corp. with environmental damage in the Amazon rain forest.
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 bloody melee that left one Indian dead and at least 40 police injured.
Ecuador on Thursday rejected as an inappropriate last-ditch effort Chevron Corp.'s attempt to force it into international arbitration so it might share liability in a $27 billion lawsuit over environmental damage in the Amazon rainforest.
Chevron Corp. sought Wednesday to force Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations, an apparent effort to protect itself against a feared negative ruling in a $27 billion lawsuit over environmental damage.
The last 15 U.S. troops left Ecuador's Pacific Manta air base on Friday, officially closing the U.S. military post in what Ecuador's government calls a recovery of sovereignty.
Ecuador and Colombia will hold direct talks to mend diplomatic relations that ruptured a year-and-a-half ago after a cross-border military raid that killed Colombian rebels inside Ecuador, officials said Monday.
Police in Ecuador say they have seized a half-ton of processed cocaine disguised as a shipment of fertilizer.
The Ecuadorean government says President Rafael Correa's chief of security has died of swine flu.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says he will seek to have a television network suspended for airing a taped conversation between him and a legislator.
The Ecuadorean judge presiding over a $27 billion environmental lawsuit against Chevron recused himself Friday amid an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing.
Chevron Corp. says it will oppose a judge's ruling expected later this year in a $27 billion environmental lawsuit in Ecuador. Here's why.
Chevron said Tuesday that it would not pay damages, as much as $27 billion, if it loses an environmental lawsuit now before a judge in Ecuador.
Ecuador's president is threatening to close a major television network after it aired a tape of a conversation between him and a member of the assembly that drafted a new constitution last year.
Ecuador wants to create local citizen committees that would defend the government and its "revolution" — sparking criticism that the president aims to control opponents in a system reminiscent of Cuba or Venezuela.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says "many" radio and TV frequencies will revert to state control due to what he's calling irregularities.
Ecuadorean officials say there's new hope that famed Galapagos giant tortoise Lonesome George, believed to be the last of his species, could soon be a father.
Rescuers found three U.S. college students Monday evening after they went missing during a weekend hike in Ecuador's northern Andes mountains.
President Rafael Correa made a direct plea Thursday to leaders of Colombia' main leftist rebel army to confirm whether they contributed to his 2006 election campaign.
A U.S. anti-narcotics force flew its last surveillance mission from Ecuador's Pacific Coast on Friday.
Fidel Castro: ALBA countries to defend humanity at Copenhagen & survival of the species Quote: "no longer "Homeland or Death"; it is truly and without exaggeration a matter of "Life or Death" for the human race...In Copenhagen, the ALBA and the Third World countries will be struggling for the survival of the species."
A Review of "Through Gates of Splendor"Although it was released more than 50 years ago, Elisabeth Elliot's "Through Gates of Splendor" is one of those books that every generation should take the time to read.
Chavez and the Latin Left: Muzzling the Media? But in recent months, ChÁvez and his allies from Argentina to Nicaragua have taken steps that critics say make them walk too Cuban for comfort - especially when it comes to independent media, an institution critical to the region's modernization.
Ayatollahs cast growing shadow in Latin America; terrorist infrastructures growing | ajc.comThe Obama administration must take note. Ahmadinejad's regime promises to have strategic repercussions in America's neighborhood. The expansion of Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere — diplomatic, economic, military and terrorist infrastructure — has been rapid.
Scene & Heard: CrudeMosaec.com's Scene & Heard Q&A with Joe Berlinger, the director of Crude.
Latin America Gangs Up On Colombia; Chavez gloatsColombia now finds itself in exactly the state of isolation that Chávez warned would result at the UNASUR meeting.
Chevron - To Refuse Payment for Environmental Damages in Ecuador Even if it Loses LawsuitNEW YORK (AP) -- Chevron said Tuesday that it would not pay damages, as much as $27 billion, if it loses an environmental lawsuit now before a judge in Ecuador.
Venezuelan "Peace Bases" to Counter U.S. Military Buildup in Colombia with Binational ReconciliationIn a movement to counter the expansion of the United States military presence on Colombian bases, Colombian and Venezuelan civil society organizations and government officials are collaborating to organize spaces of binational reconciliation called "peace bases."
China wants oil, Ecuador wants moneyEcuador features in the latest episode of the "China resources grab!(TM)".
Honduras Coup D'etatIf this coup d'état works, it will serve as a threatening signal to Latin America that the old days of military dictatorship are back. Already there are frictions between the army and the heads of state in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.
RP economy faces worst decline in years[Manila, Philippines]REMITTANCES, investments, production all falling down. The Philippine economy is facing its worst decline in more than 20 years, with production, investments and even overseas remittances falling in the first quarter of 2009.
Correa calls for new finance systemThe president of Ecuador has criticised capitalism for its role in the global financial crisis, in a speech to delegates attending a United Nations conference on the state of the world economy.
Food Poisoning Prompts Emergency Landing A Delta flight made an emergency landing at Orlando International Airport on Friday after several passengers became ill.
UNODC Training Leads to Drugs Seizure at Ghanaian PortThe cocaine, with a street value of around US$ 7 million in Europe, was uncovered in an operation by Ghanaian police and customs, working together in a Joint Port Control Unit established with the support of UNODC in 2008.
Are we loving the Galapagos to death?160,000 visitors a year, a permanent population of 30,000, introduced species that compete with endemic fauna... can the Galapagos survive? REvista showcases Darwin and Galapagos.
Alternative to 60 Minutes' Chevron/Ecuador CoverageMy purpose here is not to make their case or to suggest that Texaco operated the Ecuadoran fields in the 1960s, '70s and '80s to the standards that prevail today, decades later.
60 Minutes Exposes Chevron's Environmental Atrocity in the AmazonActually, we first learned about Chevron's South American shenanigans from our friends at Amazon Watch, who produced this brilliant parody about the oil company's Amazon antics, including petroleum profiteering and wide scale environmental abuses in Ecuador.
Amazon Crude - CBS NewsThe people who live in a remote region of Ecuador are suing Chevron, saying reckless oil exploration poisoned the most important rain forest on earth.
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Saving the Galápagos means rebuilding natureSaving the Galapagos means rebuilding nature Conservation in Darwin's lab isn't about preservation – it's now an epic experiment in restoration. By Sara Miller Llana and Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
The Backroom - Apartment for sale in Spain @ 1 EuroHis idea is making him famous. Ecuadorian Mauricio Coyago 41 is now a familiar face through many Spanish media sources.
Volunteering Abroad 2008 Abroaderview.orgVolunteer Abroad International Programs Overseas Facebook: abroaderview Twitter: @abroaderview Youtube: abroadervieworg
Overfishing threatening stocks of sea cucumbers, warns UN reportStocks of sea cucumbers, found on the ocean bed worldwide and a staple in diets across Asia, are increasingly in trouble from overfishing, according to a new United Nations report released today.
Galápagos Islands: Is there room for humans in 'nature's laboratory'? | csmonitor.comIs there room for humans in nature's laboratory as the Galápagos Islands are known? Ecuador's government is trying to control migration because overpopulation is one of the reasons UNESCO placed the islands on the list of endangered world heritage sites.
Canadian Mining Firm Financed Violence in Ecuador: Lawsuit..."three villagers from the valley of Intag in northwestern Ecuador are suing Copper Mesa Mining Corporation (TSX:CUX) and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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