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A community portal about Ecuador with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru... [more]
A community portal about Ecuador with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 965 kilometers west of the mainland. Ecuador is the Spanish word for equator. Ecuador straddles the equator and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers. Its capital city is Quito.
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Ecuador's defense minister Javier Ponce is scheduled to pay an
official visit to Peru to meet with his Peruvian counterpart,
Ántero Flores-Aráoz (right), on August 21.
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QUITO, Ecuador — An Air Force officer is assuming his post as the last chief of a drug-interdiction air base in Ecuador before its lease runs out next year. Lt. Col. Jared Curtis took command Wednesday in a ceremony at the base in the Pacific port ...
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QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Ivanhoe Energy Executive Chairman, President and CEO Robert Friedland confirmed today, in response to numerous enquiries and media reports, that the company, as previously disclosed, is in detailed ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian company Norberto Odebrecht SA should pay a fine of $24 million and invest around $24 million to repair the San Francisco hydroelectric plant, National Anticorruption Secretary Alfredo Vera said Tuesday.
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QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's exports to the Andean countries totaled $1.54 billion in the first five months of the year, an increase of 72% from the $896 million registered in the same period of 2007, the central bank said Tuesday. Ecuadorian imports ...
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QUITO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Support for Ecuadorean leftist President Rafael Correa continues to grow before a referendum to approve a new constitution that would expand his authority in the OPEC nation, polls showed on Tuesday. Independent pollster ...
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They lie some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. Most of the land is included in a national park, and the waters surrounding the islands form one of the ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's average oil output fell 2% to 498,315 barrels a day in July from 509,749 barrels a day in July of 2007, according to the Mining and Oil Ministry.
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It's not a journey to the center of the Earth, exactly, but if you're in Quito, Ecuador, with three or four hours to kill, you can take a cab ride to the Middle of the World. The country is, after all, named for the equator, and Quito makes the most of its proximity.
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The view is spectacular from a cable car that lifts you to the nearly 16,000-foot summit of Pichincha. Straddling two hemispheres at the equator - at least how the government defines it - the author visits Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World). The ...
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BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will set up a maintenance base at Ecuador with which it has secured an order to supply seven Dhruv - Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH). HAL Chairman Ashok Baweja said that the maintenance base to be set ...
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for up to $16 billion (18.6 billion pound) over environmental ...
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QUITO — Ecuador has enough evidence to halt payments on what it labels as "illegitimate" foreign loans but will not take "irrational" actions on the debt front, said the head of a government panel which will recommend how much of the country's US ...
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron Corp officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for up to $16 billion over environmental damages. Chevron ...
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Quito. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron Corp officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for up to USD 16 billion over environmental damages, Reuters reported ...
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QUITO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron Corp (CVX.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for ...
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron Corp (CVX.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for up to ...
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Lisa Norberg | Kalamazoo GazetteA narrow street provides a distant view of the Basilica del Voto Nacional in the colonial district of Quito, Ecuador. QUITO, Ecuador -- Touring Quito for just half a day might seem disrespectful, considering that it...
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Armando, from Mingasocial, a community-based “horizontalist” media organization in Quito, has taken it upon himself to guide me through the complexities of Ecuador. This includes, by necessity, the strange world of cuisine, or better put, home cooking, in the local Parque del Relleno...
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QUITO - Ecuador is willing to mediate a settlement between Chevron Corp and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the oil company for up to US$16 billion in environmental damages, the country's top attorney said Wednesday.
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Colombia national team coach Jorge Luis Pinto has announced his selection for the friendly match with Ecuador, scheduled to be played next Wednesday. ...
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QUITO, Ecuador (IICA) – The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture, Chelston WD Brathwaite, has been honoured by ...
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Quito, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) At least 128 Ecuadorian organizations and political parties began on Thursday an electoral campaign for a referendum about a new constitution, to be held on September 28. The TSE (Supreme Electoral Court), said that from ...
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QUITO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 10,000 gallons (37,854 ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's unemployment rate stood at 6.56% in July, down from 7.1% in June, the National Statistics and Census Institute, or Inec, said Wednesday.
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QUITO, Ecuador, August 12 (Compass Direct News) – Catholic authorities report death threats and several acts of vandalism of church property in response to ...
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Mindo Ecuador is a heaven for bird watchers it also appeals to photographers and explorers for its outstanding panoramic views. Learn more about this little paradise on Earth
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QUITO (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian Minister of Mines and Petroleum Galo Chiriboga has urged the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) not to change their oil output despite drop in international crude prices. The drop in oil prices reflects ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Support for Ecuador's proposed new constitution is rising, but there is still not a clear majority needed to approve it, a survey released Tuesday by pollster Informe Confidencial said.
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QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador's oil and mining minister says the country wants to work with Venezuela and Chile to explore for natural gas in the Gulf of Guayaquil. Galo Chiriboga says Ecuador wants to develop alliances to explore and extract the gas ...
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Quito, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) At least four international institutions participate in Ecuador as observers for the referendum on the new Constitution to be ...
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Around 10000 gallons of crude oil have spilled into the Aguarico river, on the Ecuador/Columbia border, after a tanker that was travelling from Shushufindi ...
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Ecuador recently reincorporated to the OPEC in which it is only a marginal producer, with some 510000 barrels per day (bpd). Chiriboga said Ecuador expects ...
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Quito, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will start a 48-hour official visit to Argentina and later attend the inauguration of ...
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador's oil and mining minister says the country wants to work with Venezuela and Chile to explore for natural gas in the Gulf of Guayaquil.
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QUITO, Ecuador : Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says a 2007 decree asking oil companies for 99 percent of their windfall profits is "excessive." Correa said Saturday on his radio show that he issued the ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the government will remain at arm's length from a lawsuit that Ecuadorian Indians are involved ...
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With pressure mounting from a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, Chevron has publicly rebuked one of its Washington lobbyists who had suggested "little countries" like Ecuador shouldn't be allowed by the ...
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Ecuador reached over 1.1 million internet users during the first six months of the year, according to data by Ecuador's telecoms supervisory body Supertel. ...
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's average oil output was down 4% to 494,732 barrels a day in June from 514,797 barrels a day in June 2007, data from the Mining and Oil Ministry showed Monday.
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Wood Group ESP has appointed Carlos Blum as Ecuador general manager. As general manager, Blum will oversee the day-to-day operations of Wood Group ESP business in Ecuador and be responsible for maintaining its growth over time.
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QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador's oil and mines minister says China's Andes Petroleum has agreed to change its drilling and exploration contract – and that Ecuador will get a higher economic return on crude oil production. Galo Chiriboga says that under ...
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by Steven Ertelt Quito, Ecuador (LifeNews.com) -- Catholic Church officials in Ecuador are facing death threats because they oppose a section of the newly ...
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QUITO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - OPEC does not need to change output levels, even though crude prices have tumbled more than $20 per barrel from record highs, Ecuador's oil minister said on Tuesday, adding the fall reflected the current reality of oil markets.
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AP QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuador's oil minister says Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras has agreed to renegotiate a 21-year drilling and exploration ...
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QUITO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - OPEC does not need to change output levels, even though crude prices have tumbled more than $20 per barrel from record highs, Ecuador's oil minister said on Tuesday, adding the fall reflected the current reality of oil ...
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(Updates with company comments and details.) QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's government and China-based oil company Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. have reached an agreement allowing the oil company to maintain its contracts, Oil and Mining Minister Galo Chiriboga said Friday.
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The media in Ecuador is frequent criticized for its content and its role in society.
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The Catholic bishops of Ecuador have issued a clear denunciation of the nation's new proposed constitution, which opponents are calling "abortionist". QUITO,Ecuador (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ignoring government warnings not to "meddle" in Ecuadorian ...
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Members of Christ Episcopal Church in Ansonia are on a mission to help people in a village on the west coast of Ecuador.
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QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Local and foreign oil companies operating in Ecuador owe the country's Internal Revenue Service, or SRI, around $200 million in outstanding taxes, SRI chief Carlos Marx Carrasco told Dow Jones Newswires Friday.
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In the signing ceremony, Eskandari said that some 600000 tons of bananas are consumed annually in Iran which could be imported from Ecuador since the ...
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By Alonso Soto QUITO (Reuters) - Brazilian oil giant Petrobras on Thursday agreed to switch to a new contract with Ecuador to make it only a contractor, ...
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QUITO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Friday that higher education for police and military officers will be free with the ...
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QUITO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol (REP.MC: Quote , Profile , Research ) agreed with Ecuador on Friday to start negotiations to switch to a service contract from a previous production sharing deal, the government and the company said ...
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - City Oriente, an oil company controlled by U.S. investors, ended its drilling and exploration contract with Ecuador's government 13 years early on Friday, transferring operations to a subsidiary of state-owned oil company ...
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That decree signed by Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa reiterated that slot machines could only be legally operated in registered casinos in four- or ...
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Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social
August 2008
The Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (LAES) is a collaborative research workshop directed by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr. for the Education Department of the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador (Central Bank Museum of Ecuador).
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HH THE Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani have cabled their congratulations to the president of Ecuador on his country’s national day.
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Iran, Ecuador ink MoU on agricultural cooperation Iran and Ecuador signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on agricultural cooperation. Minister of Agricultural Jihad Mohammad Reza ...
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Quito, July 31 (DPA) Ecuador has formally notified the US that it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when the lease expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of the plans, which have long been a pledge by President...
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QUITO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Thursday it would continue to invest in Ecuador, after agreeing with the government to switch to a new service contract, which means ...
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QUITO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - China's Andes Petroleum agreed on Friday to switch contracts to allow Ecuador to take all the oil the Asian company produces, Oil Minister Galo Chiriboga said on Friday, marking the second such deal by the leftist government ...
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QUITO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has agreed to switch to a new service contract with Ecuador, which means the company will be paid a service fee for extracting oil instead ...
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QUITO, Ecuador : Ecuador's national statistics institute says annual inflation reached 9.9 percent in July, led by rising food costs and a falling currency that has made imports more expensive. Consumer prices rose by 0.59 percent in July, the ...
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QUITO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote , Profile , Research ) has agreed to switch to a new service contract with Ecuador, which means the company will be paid a service fee for extracting oil instead of keeping ...
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QUITO, ECUADOR — A U.S. diplomat insists the United States "in no way" believes Ecuador's government has ties to leftist Colombian guerrillas.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government said Monday it would seize a family business group's stock shares in 58 companies to help recover debts generated ...
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Ecuador President Rafael Correa is forcing Ecuador to slide back into a socialist banana republic. He is a strong supporter of the plaintiffs’ case against ...
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By Anonymous ECUADOR'S MINING INDUSTRY came to a grinding halt in April, when the Ecuadorian Constitutional Assembly passed a Mining Mandate canceling ...
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - A new poll indicates that 47 percent of Ecuadoreans will back a new constitution in a September referendum, up from 37 percent in June. The draft constitution granting leftist President Rafael Correa the ability to dissolve ...
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Quito is not a shiny city. It's a bit shabby, with peeling paint, narrow twisty streets, buses belching fumes, and cheap gray tenements erupting all over the hillsides, and it is also far too churchy for my tastes. But man, it has character. It's a wonderfully lively place, and what it lacks in...
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