Ecuador

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 10, 2012 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Paolo Mietto C.S.I, Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Napo (Ecuador), as Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (Ecuador). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 13/2/2012)  

Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador has become the door of South America to Haitian immigrants who want to go to Brazil in search of a better life than living in their country, devastated by the earthquake of 2010, because the Andean nation does not ask for visa: this is the information released from the NGO, "the Jesuit Service for Refugees and migrants" (SJRM) in Quito. In early January, in just three days, 500 Haitians arrived in Brasileia, a...  

(AP) QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's foreign minister says police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in diplomatic mail sent to the Mediterranean country and two suspects have been arrested. Ricardo Patino said Thursday that the ...  

She was wearing a bright red apron and carrying a huge black plastic garbage bag filled with medicinal herbs and flowers. Since mama didn’t speak any English it had been explained to me she would be administering my limpia, which is a spiritual cleansing ...  

Interested in adventure and exploring new places? An international magazine is looking for volunteers to spend a month in Cuenca, Ecuador to test its potential as a retirement destination. Applicants must be near retirement age, from the United States or ...  

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador will investigate and act forcefully against any clinics found to be trying to force homosexuals to change their sexual orientation, a Health Ministry official said Thursday. Gay rights activists in the South ...  

QUITO, Ecuador - An Ecuadorean judge ordered two journalists to pay $1 million each to President Rafael Correa, finding them guilty of defamation for reporting that he knew about contracts his older brother had with the state. Quito Judge ...  

The clinics, often run under the guise of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, have been thrust into the international spotlight, pitting gay rights activists against the government in this tiny Andean nation. Homosexuality has been a point ...  

QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's Minister of Non Renewable Natural Resources Wilson Pastor said that contracts signed last week with consortia led by Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) and Argentina's Tecpetrol could be renegotiated in five years. Ecuador's ...  

CUENCA, Ecuador — Now, here's a country to get used to. From its rich indigenous heritage to its incredible biodiversity, the small parcel of land of Ecuador - a little more than 105,000 square miles total - boasts an impressive array of ...  

Quito Judge Mercedes Portilla levied the fines against Juan Carlos Calderon and Cristian Zurita on Monday in a case brought by Correa over their 2010 book "The Big Brother." The two said they would appeal. Calderon called the ruling "a way of punishing the ...  

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Chevron Inc. says it has no intention of apologizing for the environmental damage to Amazon rain forest for which an Ecuadorean court ruled it responsible. Attorneys for both sides have said that if had Chevron apologized, its  

With assistance from Dominic Carey in Sao Paulo. Editor: Richard Jarvie, Philip Sanders To contact the reporter on this story: Nathan Gill in Quito at ngill4@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at ...  

Gas Natural Recovery’s innovative technology earns new contract in the Americas. Located on the northern edge of the major central Ecuadorian gas fields, the Nauther gas field depletion compressor project will extract the remaining natural gas from a ...  

QUITO, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador on Thursday called on the Syrian government and opposition forces to negotiate an immediate ceasefire and an end to the 10-month long violence in the Middle East country, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.