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3 hrs ago | The Georgian Times

Separatists ask Ecuador for recognition

The separatist regime of Georgia`s breakaway Abkhazia officially requested Ecuador to study the question on recognition of its independence, Abkhazian deputy foreign Minister Maxim Gvindjia, now on a working visit to Ecuador, has announced.

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Wed Dec 02, 2009

Asia Pacific News .Net

Ecuador feels 'ill-treated' in loan talks with China

Asia Pacific News.Net Wednesday 2nd December, 2009 Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said that during the course of negotiations with China to obtain financing for a hydroelectric dam, they 'sometimes feel ill-treated'. Ecuador is negotiating with China for a loan to finance 85 percent the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam but Correa says, ...

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Related Topix: South America, Ecuador, World News, Portugal,

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Foreign Policy

Has Hugo Chavez gone too far this time?

Ordinarily, it's easy to dismiss the rhetoric of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as just so much bombast meant to sate the appetites of his most radical followers.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Prison, South America, World News, Colombia, Ecuador,

The Winnipeg Free Press

Socialist former guerrilla leader wins Uruguay presidency by 53-43 per cent margin

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - President-elect Jose Mujica retreated to his flower farm and shunned the spotlight on Monday, saying that dumping more talk on Uruguayans after a speech-filled campaign "would be like raining on what is already wet." Congratulations poured in from across Latin America for the former guerrilla whose homespun manner and vows to ...

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Related Topix: South America, Uruguay, World News, Tabare Vazquez, Hugo Chavez

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Global Voices Online

Ecuador: Recent Protest Against President Correa

Danny Ayala Hinojosa of El Federalista [es] has photos of a recent protest against Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa .

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

Yourish.com

The Iranian web: Mullahs ascendant

Iran's president is on a South American tour, hoping to expand Iranian influence .

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Prison, World News, Middle East, Israel

Wed Nov 25, 2009

People's Daily Online

China, Ecuador pledge to further cooperation

Jia Qinglin , chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, talks with Ecuadorian Vice President Lenin Moreno during their meeting in Quito, capital of Ecuador, on Nov.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, South America, Ecuador, Lenin Moreno,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Intellectual Property Watch

Ecuador To Define Its Compulsory Licence Legislation

Referring to Article 31 of the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, the Ecuadorean constitution, and the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, Correa declared access to essential medicines of public interest to the Ecuadorean population.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Inside Costa Rica

Fire Destroys 106 Homes in Ecuador's Largest City

A fire destroyed 106 houses in the Ecuadorian Pacific coast city of Guayaquil and left more than 500 people homeless, as well as 14 children with symptoms of smoke inhalation.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Ecuador, Fire,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Age

Amazon countries to hold climate talks

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries next week to forge a common stand ahead of next month's key climate talks, officials said on Friday.

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Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy, South America, World News, Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, Hugo Chavez

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Inequities in Ecuador

U.S. trade preferences should not be awarded to nations where corruption runs rampant and American companies are preyed upon.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Ecuador, Opinion

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Caribbean Net News

OAS secretary general congratulates Ecuador and Colombia for progress in relations

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States , Jos Miguel Insulza, has congratulated the Governments of Ecuador and Colombia for naming the chargs d'affaires of the two countries and praised the leadership of the presidents of Colombia, lvaro Uribe, and of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, in the ongoing process of dialogue between their ...

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia

Sun Nov 15, 2009

TMCnet

Ecuador rejects media warnings on freedom of speech

The Ecuadorian government on Tuesday rejected warnings by the Inter-American Press Society of "aggressions" against the freedom of speech in the country.

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Related Topix: Aggression, Medicine, Health

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Reuters

Ecuador trade benefits a "sticky" issue: U.S. senator

The U.S. Congress will probably approve a short extension of trade benefits for Ecuador that expire next month despite concerns about actions that country has taken, a senior senator said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News

Wed Nov 11, 2009

News Press

Congressman Mack guest opinion: Obama administration's foreign policy flubs tarnish U.S. image

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez - together with the likes of Cuba's Castro brothers, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega - is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America.

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Related Topix: US News, Connie Mack, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Hugo Chavez, Fort Myers, FL, Honduras, World News, Central America, Daniel Ortega, Opinion

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Inside Costa Rica

Ecuador Government Declares Electricity Emergency Due to Blackouts

The Ecuadorian government declared an emergency in the electricity sector due to a generating shortfall at the nation's biggest hydroelectric plant, which has forced the adoption of energy rationing programs across the country.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Prensa Latina

President Correa Praises Research in the Amazon

Quito, Nov 7 Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, congratulated young research engineers who work at the Center of Environment Technologies of Petroecuador in La Joya de los Sachas, in the Amazonic province of Orellana.

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Related Topix: South America, Ecuador, World News

Thu Nov 05, 2009

WGNO

Pact allows U.S. access to Colombian military bases

MIAMI U.S. and Colombian officials Friday signed a pact for U.S. military access to Colombian bases that has been vociferously denounced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leftist Latin American presidents as a regional threat negotiated in secret.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia, Hugo Chavez, US Military, US Air Force

Tehran Times

Russia, Ecuador praise ties but no rebel recognition

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ecuadoran counterpart Rafael Correa pledged Thursday to ramp up cooperation in energy and defense as the Kremlin seeks to revive Soviet-era ties with Latin America.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Ecuador, Travel, Ecuador Travel, Russia Travel, Moscow, Russia Travel, Vladimir Putin

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Moscow Times

Government Signs Arms, Energy Deals With Equador

Medvedev and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa signed a $22 million deal in Moscow on Thursday that sees Russia provide Ecuador with two Mi-17 transport helicopters.

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