UK: Julian Assange, hiding inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost two years, may remain there indefinitely, the Ecuadorean ambassador said, adding “it’s a pity” that UK citizens have to cover the growing policing bill.
The 67 year old diplomat, Juan Falconi Puig said that Assange was “suffering” in custody but could remain there for a long time after the Wikileaks founder lost a Supreme Court bid to stop his extradition to Sweden, where the 42-year-old Australian is wanted for questioning over rape allegations, The Times reports. Read Article
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Reuters.com reported the cellphone provider Claro has been ordered to pay back taxes in the amount of $123 million dollars. THis amount is per a settlement over a six-year legal battle with the government of Ecuador. Ecuador’s Supreme Court issued the final decision. Claro has also been ordered to pay 29 million USD in worker […]
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telegrafo.com.ec reported 12,425 accidents and 872 deaths through April of 2014. The highest number of deaths were recorded in Pichincha (186) and Guayas (161) provinces. Azuay (Cuenca) number of fatalities have doubled to 52. The cause of accidents is blamed on driving inexperience, speeding, and intoxicated drivers. SAFETY AND SECURITY IN ECUADOR – READ THIS […]
profit.ndtv.com/Thomson Reuters reported El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, can trigger floods and drought in different regions, hitting production of key foods such as rice, wheat and sugar. Weather forecasters are increasingly predicting it will return in 2014 for the first time in five years. “On land, the volumes of food […]
adweek.com reported… Chevron believes that last week’s Twitter hijack against the brand from activist group Toxic Effect is actually part of a more elaborate plot involving the Republic of Ecuador, Adweek has learned. On May 28, Toxic Effect—a self-proclaimed environmental group in Latin America—bought the Promoted Trend #AskChevron on Twitter to protest the oil company’s […]
Fortune.com reported…For the second time in just a few years, the small South American country has outwitted Wall Street at it its own game, at least according to Ecuador. Goldman Sachs should have been wary of Ecuadorians bearing gold. On Tuesday, Ecuador announced that it had swapped 466,000 bars of gold with Goldman. The gold […]
petergreenberg.com reported…Guayusa is cherished by locals for its health benefits: Ecuadorian native tribes traditionally drink the tea early in the morning as a communal ritual. A cup is believed to have as much caffeine as one cup of coffee, with double the antioxidants of green tea. While it’s not marketed as an appetite suppressant, Ecuadorian […]
WSJ.com/Mercedes Alvaro reported Ecuador expects its first large-scale mining operation to start within three years as a Chinese-owned copper project moves forward, a high-level government official said. The Minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, Pedro Merizalde, said that the Mirador project, owned by Chinese mining company Ecuacorriente is expected to start production in 2017. “Works are […]
bloomberg.com/Nathan Gill reported Ecuador agreed to transfer more than half its gold reserves to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for three years as the government seeks to bolster liquidity. The central bank said it will send 466,000 ounces of gold to Goldman Sachs, worth about $580 million at current prices, and get the same amount back […]
phys.org reported that President Correa had charged on March 27 that his Twitter account (@MashiRafael) had been hacked, blaming the attacks on “extreme right” opponents. The government last year also reported that Correa’s email had been hacked. Correa has said NSA documents leaked by former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden show that the United States […]
theecologist.org reported two indigenous representatives from the Ecuadorian Amazon travelled to the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas to present a gift – poster-sized photographs of rainforest contaminated by oil spills and debris. Humberto Piaguaje and Robinson Yumbo, from the Secoya and Cofan nations, offered their donation to the museum’s executive director, Kathy Shannon. […]
According to elciudadano.gob.ec President Rafael Correa warned today that the regrouping of local and international right wing, as well as the extreme left, with the complicity of some media outlets, to prepare a “soft coup” along the lines of the one going on in Venezuela for more than one hundred days. “Fellow citizens, comrades, some […]
According to Janes.com Ecuador plans to reorganize the country’s armed forces. The goal is to reduce the number of personnel and to better equip the military and to expand the reserves system. A segment of the plan is to increase operations from border surveillance to support law enforcment objectives. It is believed that the current […]
richmondstandard.com reported… When Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin returned from a six-day excursion through Ecuador to tour sites of environmental devastation in September, she told the media she benefited from a broadened perspective and steeled resolve to continue her struggle against big oil, including her city’s biggest taxpayer, Chevron’s Richmond refinery. She also said the trip […]
FROM INTERPOL WEBSITE MAHUAD WITT, JORGE JAMIL Wanted by the judicial authorities of Ecuador for prosecution / to serve a sentence Identity particulars Present family name : MAHUAD WITT Forename : JORGE JAMIL Sex : Male Date of birth : 29/07/1949 (64 years old) Place of birth : LOJA, Ecuador Language spoken : Spanish , […]
wsj.com/Mercedes Alvaro reported Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said Saturday he would ask his legislative block to introduce an amendment to the nation’s Constitution to allow indefinite re-election of all elected officials, including the presidency. “I have decided to request to our block in the Assembly that the Constitution be amended to establish indefinite re-election in […]
washingtonpost.com/ap reported earlier this month, Ecuador’s electoral council declared invalid a petition drive seeking to prevent drilling in the 6,500-square-mile Amazon reserve. Environment Minister Lorena Tapia said on state television that with Thursday’s signing of the permit camps and access roads can now be built. Production could begin as early as 2016. Read Article
SAFETY AND SECURITY IN ECUADOR Tourists killed near Quito in route to the Amazon Eluniverso.com/ap reported three foreigners were killed Thursday in a car accident in an area close to Quito, and five others were injured, reported the emergency operations Committee. The director of that agency, Christian Rivera, speaking to the AP, said that the […]
vtv.gob.ve reported the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced on Wednesday that the Government planned preventive actions to reduce the impact that may have the climate phenomenon known as “El Niño”. “Better to prevent than cure. We will not be able to remedy everything for the next El Niño phenomenon, that it is true that […]
theadvocate.com reported Ecuador will outfit 4,000 of the boats in its fishing fleet with Covington-based Globalstar Inc.’s satellite tracking and emergency notification devices. Globalstar’s devices will link to Ecuador’s National Emergency Response System, and be outfitted with a proprietary panic button that sailors can activate discreetly for rescue. Read Article SAFETY AND SECURITY IN ECUADOR […]
Vistazo.com reported…The “Galapaface I” ship ran aground in an area near Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, capital of San Cristobal and the island province of Galápagos. Quito-the Ecuadorian authorities have suspended tourism activities on two beaches in San Cristobal Island, in the Galápagos archipelago, the risk posed by a cargo ship that ran aground there on May […]
Ecuador, the small South American country is the only Andean Community Nation (CAN) that has yet to sign a trade pact with Korea. Other CAN members are Colombia, Chile and Peru. Worries already have become a reality as the Ecuadorian producers of 15 commodity goods were hit hard after Korea’s FTA with Chile and Peru […]
dailymail.co.uk reported there are few things more humiliating than when a pickpocket makes a monkey out of you . . . it’s only worse when that pickpocket’s a monkey. That’s what happened to photographer Pete Oxford, from Torquay, Devon, when he visited a market in Puerto Misahualli, in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. He said it came […]
reuters.com reported Ecuador’s announcement that it plans to return to global financial markets following a 2008 default has been met with strong interest by sovereign bond investors, the South American nation’s ambassador to the United States said on Thursday. “There is great appetite and strong demand … to buy Ecuadorean debt, there’s a lot of […]
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s No. 1 carmaker, said Tuesday it will launch its popular Sonata hybrid in the Latin American market this year, with the first vehicles to be sent to Ecuador. Approximately 3.42 million new cars are expected to be sold in the Latin American market this year, with 3,500 to be hybrids. […]
Chinese banks ignore pleas of Ecuador mining campaigners chinadialogue.net – David Hill writes the failure to respond to an NGO letter challenging investment in the Mirador mining project has played to Ecuadorian fears about China’s growing clout. The Mirador copper mining project in Ecuador’s richly biodiverse Cordillera del Condor is under the control of Chinese […]
Officers of the Gang Suppression Unit have detained an Ecuadorian man believed to be a fugitive in that country. They report that they conducted a search at a house on Teacher’s Street in Belize City where they found a man identifying himself as Christian Ebanks. After a search of Ebanks home, police also recovered an […]
variety.com reported the Ecuadorian film biz is on the upswing, punctuated by recent triumphs on the festival circuit and a boost in production. Spurring growth is the tripling of the national film fund from its original amount of $700,000 in 2007 to its current $2.4 million. When the fund grew to $1.1 million last year, […]
Vistazo.com reported – Quito-Ecuador authorities declared emergency in the Galapagos Islands the presence, on the island of San Cristobal, a stranded vessel that “could result in environmental damage and an alteration to the fragile ecosystem”, said today the Galapagos special regime governing Council. Galapaface I, the Ecuadorian flag vessel, ran aground last Friday in Puerto […]
WSJ.COM REPORTED…A coalition trying to halt oil drilling in one of Ecuador’s most environmentally sensitive spots submitted an appeal Wednesday to force a referendum on the future of the area. The YasUnidos coalition submitted the appeal after Ecuador’s electoral council rejected a request for a referendum on whether to drill in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini, or ITT, […]
myews3.com/AP reported Paraguayan authorities state they have expelled the father of Ecuador’s vice president. Jorge Glas Viejo was deported to Ecuador. He is wanted in Ecuador on charges of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl. The director of Interpol’s Paraguay office said Jorge Glas Viejo was detained for violating immigration laws.Read Article
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By Christian Tym Ecuador’s Amazonian indigenous community of Sarayaku is in a state of rebellion against the central government after refusing entry to a police contingent arriving by helicopter on the morning of May 6. The helicopter landed, but was barely able to stay five minutes after being threatened by 300 people carrying machetes, muskets […]
PLENGLISH.COM REPORTED:President Rafael Correa warned today that the state of emergency could be decreed if the indigenous community of Sirayacu again prevents Police from entering the area to arrest three opponents wanted by the country”s justice. “We are going to enter again with National Police, saying please hand over the fugitives, and if they prevent […]
newsok.com reported the possibility that someone has recently seen a missing Oklahoma City man in Ecuador, where he vanished while vacationing with his family nearly a year ago, delivered a dose of hope to those trying to find him. Photo – August Reiger Reiger, who graduated in May 2013 as a valedictorian from Classen School […]
Washington (AFP) – The United States will end decades of anti-drug trafficking assistance to Ecuador this month, pulling its staff from the INL office in the South American nation, a top official said. “I am quite prepared to acknowledge right now the INL section, which has been in Ecuador now for more than 30 years, […]
martinoticias.com reported in Guayaquil, a port city of Ecuador, police arrested five Cubans with passports and false identities, waiting to travel to the United States. The first of them had been captured overnight on Tuesday, in the Guayaquil airport, and their track led to the other four Cubans, who were in a hotel awaiting his […]
Washingtopost.com reported…Chevron and Patton Boggs have settled disputes linked to long-running litigation over toxic drilling waste pits in Ecuador by Patton Boggs agreeing to pay Chevron $15 million, issue a statement of regret and withdraw from the Ecuador case. Chevron agreed to release all claims against Patton Boggs and its partners. THINKING OF MOVING TO […]
Vistazo.com reported the inflation rate ending April 2014 posted a rate of inflation at 0.30 percent. Annual inflation is currently stated at 3.23% reported by the Institute of statistics and census. The Institute explained that the inflation was primarily due to price increases in food and non-alcoholic beverages followed by education costs. Esmeraldas Province had […]
Ecuador (+118 percent) – Accounting for 20 percent of air bookings to South America, it has less than five percent of the continent’s population. travelpulse.com reported Leading luxury travel network, Virtuoso, harnessed the data of its worldwide travel agency members to reveal 2014’s top destinations during its annual Symposium taking place in Berlin this week. […]
commercialobserver.com reported the Consulate General of Ecuador in New York has paid $8.24 million for an office condominium at 800 Second Avenue, according to public records. The seller of the unit, Suite 200, was Philips International. The deed was signed by Jorge Lopez, the Consul General of Ecuador in New York. The buyer currently leases […]
bbc.com reported that Ecuador has rejected a petition for a referendum on whether the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon should be opened to further oil exploration. The National Electoral Council said not enough signatures were collected to force a referendum. Activists from the group Yasunidos, who had gathered the signatures, accused the council of […]
Ecuadorian press freedom NGO Fundamedios sent a letter to Twitter criticizing the company for having complied to remove content depicting or referring to President Rafael Correa that the organization described as public information. Twitter removed the content from its service after receiving several complaints in the last few months from Spanish company Ares Rights, which […]
Sarayaku Ecuador: nzherald.co.nz/AP reported an Ecuadorean indigenous leader says three critics of President Rafael Correa who sought refuge in a fiercely independent Amazon community have departed the settlement rather than imperil it. The three men former national lawmaker Clever Jimenez, and aide and a doctor were all convicted of criminally defaming Correa and sentenced to […]
lex18.com reported…It sounds like a movie plot, but the wife of a Morehead volunteer firefighter says it’s all true. Her husband, Dennis Walling, remains jailed in Ecuador for unknowingly carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine. Dennis Walling said he thought he was interviewing with Atlanta based Air Serv in Ecuador in March when his suitcase […]
theguardian.com reported that Yasuni campaigners claim oil drilling petition results are being manipulated Civil society groups say enough signatures have been gathered to force a referendum but authorities are interfering Kevin Koenig, Ecuador programme director of Amazon Watch, said: “It is extremely troubling to see these kinds of irregularities so soon into the verification process. […]
nearshoreamericas.com reported that Ecuador is gearing up to build and expand six new electrical transmission systems, adding 586 kilometers of transmission lines and enlarging 12 substations with a US$150 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Designed to allow for greater generation of hydroelectric power, the program will strengthen Ecuador’s interconnection with Colombia, overhauling […]
Scenario: Criminals are monitoring taxi service radios. When a taxi is called by a customer, the pirate taxi listening in goes to the address of the customer. The customer has no idea that it is a thief picking him up in a pirated taxi. elcomercio.com reported…A Wednesday night, Armando V. (protected name) left office, located […]
Deep in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, a gigantic open pit copper and gold mine is planned in the heart of the Shuar peoples’ territory. David Dene tells the story of a growing international campaign to uphold and defend the ‘Rights of Nature’, in Ecuador and beyond. In 2012 I received a call for help from ‘the […]
dailyindependent.com reported ….What began as a promising job interview has turned into a living nightmare for a Morehead couple. Sarah Walling said her husband, Dennis “Pepper” Walling, had found an opening for a security position with AirServ International RAM. The company allegedly offered to fly Walling to Ecuador to interview for the position. “He was only […]
Apparently the non-named person whose picture is below has been attempting to scam willing individuals into giving her money over the last few years throughout Ecuador. Her basic story is that she has no funds and needs to get to Peru in order to get a new passport so she can return to South Africa. […]
eluniverso.com reported that eight dead and 17 wounded caused a traffic accident that took place on the last Thursday evening when the unit of the transport South East cooperative, circulating by the route Loja-Zumba, in the province of Loja, lost track and fell into an abyss. The incident happened around 18:00 on that day at […]
hngn.com/AP reported that all 20 Defense Department employees in the United State’s Embassy’s military group in Ecuador were ordered to leave the country by month’s end, The Associated Press has learned. The group was ordered to halt operations in Ecuador in a letter dated April 7, said embassy spokesman Jeffrey Weinshenker, the AP reported. The […]
ELUNIVERSO.COM reported …sentenced to a year in prison two doctors accused of lack of attention in emergency situation French Charlotte Mazoyer, who died after being the Sixth Court of Pichincha guarantees criminal gunshot wound in an assault in Quito, in 2009. The hearing of the trial, which began last Monday, concluded last night after the […]
lex18.com reported that a volunteer fireman(Dennis Walling) from Rowan County Kentucky has been detained in Ecuador after a suitcase he was carrying was found to be lined with cocaine. Mr. Rowan’s wife, Sarah Skaggs Wal explained that her husband left for Ecuador a month ago for a job interview. His suitcase broke and the company […]
Eluniverso.com reported that the trial began yesterday in Quito for two doctors accused of allegedly not providing emergency medical care to a French citizen in 2009. On September 12, 2009, Charlotte Mazoyer, a volcanologist, resisted a robbery attempt in Guápalo (Quito). She was shot in the chest which left her seriously wounded. According to witnesses, […]
telecompaper.com reported Ecuador’s Superintendency of Telecommunications (Supertel) said through March 31, 2014, there have been 8,756 complaints, inquiries and suggestions from customers received. Total complaints are 4,015. The primary complaint to the superintendency concerned value-added services (internet access) which totaled 39 percent of the complaints. Fixed line complaints were 31.2 percent and mobile phone complaints […]
ndtv.com reported..In March, a month after she left home, the police picked up Noemi and a coyote in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The authorities took her to a children’s shelter. She was described as crying inconsolably after being questioned by a prosecutor. A few days later, she was found hanged from a shower curtain rod in […]
862 dead ones at Easter in Latin America, most in accidents In Ecuador, there were 6 people, according to a report by the Red Cross. VISTAZO.com reportedBogota, Colombia-at least 862 people died during the celebration of Holy week in Latin America, where according to balance-sheet delivered today by the authorities, traffic accidents remain the leading […]
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presidential-power.com reported…So it is perhaps only slightly surprising that Correa, two weeks ago on Pulso Político on TC Televisón, indicated support for a constitutional amendment that would largely abolish presidential term limits. Currently in Ecuador, the president is allowed to hold office for three consecutive terms. Indeed, Correa already oversaw a constitutional reform to allow […]
defensa.gob.ec reported…Through Executive decrees: 301, 302 and 303, 7 April 2014, the President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, appointed new military command made up of: -Major-General, Luis Aníbal Garzón Narváez, is the new head of the armed forces joint command, who served as Chief of the State greater operational of the joint command of armed […]
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Amazonwatch.org press release…Just five days after turning in more than enough signatures to qualify for a national referendum to stop oil drilling plans in a critical part of Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park, Yasunidos, the civil society collective spearheading the grassroots effort is denouncing what appear to be egregious irregularities by the National Election Commission (CNE). […]
IPS reported Latin America is not taking the new global agreement to limit mercury emissions seriously: the hazardous metal is still widely used and smuggled in artisanal gold mining and is released by the fossil fuel industry. After the European Union banned exports of mercury in 2011 and the United States did so in 2013, […]
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An operational command of the Armed Forces of Ecuador on Wednesday to support those affected by the heavy rains affect five days ago the Ecuadorian coast, decreed a state of emergency. The work, which involved different institutions, are made in the province of Esmeraldas (North), an official said. Read Article SAFETY AND SECURITY IN ECUADOR […]
radiohuancavilca.com.ec reported…In order that citizens receive each day better cellular services and connectivity, the Minister of telecommunications and the information society, Mr. Jaime Guerrero Ruiz, reported that: “the new parameters of quality of the operators will begin to control since June. They begin to improve the quality or we will have to apply penalties”, he […]
telecompaper.com reported that the National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT) is constructing data centers in Quito and Guayaquil. To date 36 million dollars have been spent and the projects are to be completed in August and September. This project will improve and increase the infrastructure for customers. It will impact VAS, cloud computing, and IT services. Read […]
macnn.com reported that users in Ecuador have provided evidence that iTunes Radio is now sporadically available in the South American country, suggesting that Apple is testing the service in preparation for international rollouts there and elsewhere. The news comes on the heels of previous reports in both the UK and Canada that saw testing of […]
LATINO.FOXNEWS.COM REPORTED…Colombia’s leftist FARC guerrillas blew up a portion of the main road linking their country with neighboring Ecuador, authorities said Tuesday. The explosives were apparently hidden in a sewer pipe, Temistocles Ortega, governor of the southwestern province of Cauca, told Blu Radio, as was the case in an April 1 FARC attack at another […]
telegrafo.com.ec reported that Tungurahua volcano emitted a strong explosion at 8:30am April 14, 2014. According to the Secretariat of Risk Management, the explosion is the strongest sound-wise to date of the latest eruptive process. It was heard in Ambato and the vibration broke windows in Cúsua, Chacauco, Cotaló and Pelileo. The ash column rose to […]
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nzherald.co.nz reported the TR4 strain of Panama disease, a soil-born fungus that attacks plant roots, is deadly for the Cavendish banana that makes up about 95 per cent of supplies to importers, including North America and Europe, Fazil Dusunceli, an agriculture officer at the FAO, said by phone this week from Rome. While the disease […]
NHREGISTER.COM reported…Ecuadorians protest at Ecuador consulate during President’s visit to Yale Wilmer Barzallo, an Ecuadorean resident, said Correa declined to meet with the community. “There are about 15,000 people in our community here and he won’t listen to us,” Barzallo said. Carmen Segovia said she wanted to participate in the protest because such opposition isn’t […]
bbc.com reported that environmentalists in Ecuador say they have collected enough signatures to have a referendum on whether the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon should be opened to further oil exploration. They said 727,947 people had signed their petition to have a vote – more than required by Ecuadorian law. President Rafael Correa has […]
economist.com reported…The rise of China has changed every region. But it has reinforced patterns, too. China’s demand for commodities has entrenched Latin America’s position as a supplier of raw materials. The country guzzles oil from Venezuela and Ecuador, copper from Chile, soyabeans from Argentina, and iron ore from Brazil—with which it signed a corn-import deal […]
globalpost.com reported…On orders from Ecuador’s media regulator, a television news presenter publicly apologized Wednesday for having used the words “fags” and “blacks” in an on-air comment. Alfredo Pinoargote, of the private Ecuavisa channel, was ordered to apologize after a ruling party lawmaker complained to the Superintendence of Information and Communication that his remarks were “discriminatory.” […]
Opinion Piece Rafael Correa President of Ecuador – bostonglobe.com….To understand what is happening politically across Latin America, one needs only to look at the history of the United States. Despite its status as the oldest democracy in the world, the United States took centuries to fulfill the principles of equality and freedom embodied in its […]
blog.panampost.com / Open Letter: Correa and the Reality of Life in Ecuador The Oppressive Emperor Has No Clothes By Juliana Morosco and Arianna Tanca The reality of life in Ecuador is seldom allowed to be shown internationally by the ruling regime. Our aim with this open letter is to provide an insight, from an Ecuadorian […]
The question, “Do you agree that the Ecuadorean government should keep the crude in the ITT, known as block 43, underground indefinitely?” The collection of signatures is being led by Yasunidos, a newly formed alliance of groups seeking to overturn Correa’s abandonment of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative. Some polls suggest that general support for protecting the […]
A post on social media Facebook site revealed that there is a current anti-McDonald’s graffiti campaign popping up around Cuenca Ecuador. Using stenciling, the messages state in Spanish: “Yo prefiero los chumales de la Loja, Fuera McDonalds, Pilas Cuencanos”. I prefer chumales (humitas) from Loja, get out McDonalds, wake up Cuencanos (people from Cuenca). Read […]
Plenglish.com reported that the most recent subversive actions against the People”s Revolution in Ecuador, denounced by President Rafael Correa, are part of the operations planned in secret documents of the Pentagon and other US federal agencies. As the president said, the US entities in charge of espionage and subversion use all instruments at their disposal […]
A year after establishing strict regulations applicable to Cubans wishing to travel to Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government has decided to eliminate the letter of invitation hitherto required of visitors from the island. As of this past Tuesday, Cubans can enter Ecuador without a letter of invitation, a requirement established by the country’s authorities on January […]
reuters.com reported that Ecuador could return to the international bond markets to raise up to USD1bn as soon as May or June, two investors said on Wednesday, including one with close ties to the sovereign. The country, out of the market since defaulting on USD3.2bn of debt in December 2008, has hired Citigroup and Credit […]
ccffaa.mil.ec reported that the armed forces, through the operational command no. 2 “MARITIMO” in coordination with the National Directorate of water spaces, in an operation executed by the command of Coast Guard and intelligence military joint command, this Wednesday, April 02, approximately at 11 h 30, was captured a semi-submersible of approximately 15 metres in […]
theguardian.com reported that in 1929, Friedrich Ritter abandoned his wife and Berlin dental practice and eloped with his patient and lover, a married teacher named Dore Strauch, to Floreana in the Galápagos Islands, 1,000km west of Ecuador. The couple became minor celebrities, feted in the international press for their rugged individualism as they carved out […]
ansa.it reported that authorities seized 215 kilos of “extremely” pure cocaine at the port of Gioia Tauro, Italy. The cocaine was located in hidden bags that were hidden in a banana shipment aboard a container ship from Ecuador. estimated street value of the booty is 43 million euros. The find was a result of cross-checking […]
Montreal Gazette/AP Reported: According to a manager at Hidropaute in Ecuador an explosion has killed four Chinese workers. The incident happened at the large hydroelectric project in a tunnel at the Sopladora project. ect A construction company says an explosion at Ecuador’s most important hydroelectric project has killed four Chinese workers. The workers were employed […]
newyorker.com reported.Author – Calvin Trillin.. I try not to let a decade pass without renewing my assault on Spanish, which I keep hearing described as an easy language to learn. In the nineties, in preparation for a trip to northern Spain, I bought myself a videotape Spanish course in the form of a sixteen-episode soap […]
Elcomercio.com reported INOCAR issued warning of tsunami in Ecuador after earthquake in Chile Read time: 1′ 46 ” No. words: 266 El Mercurio, Chile, GDA and Elcomercio.com 07: 33 pm Tuesday 01/04/2014 An earthquake which reached magnitude 7.8 occurred Tuesday in the far north of Chile, according to the first report of the national seismological […]