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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa took office on Friday for a third term with a promise to eradicate poverty and reduce social inequality, Xinhua news agency reported.

Vice president Amado Boudou attended the inauguration ceremony of the re-elected Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and expressed his gratitude for "backing a claim of Argentina over Malvinas Islands." Boudou stressed on importance of Correa's support on the issue which concerns "the entire region and 40 million Argentines." "We are proud to have ... (more)

Ecuador is engaged in a huge national experiment. The oil-rich Andean nation is being transformed by social and economic reforms dubbed the 'Citizens Revolution'. At the same time, press freedom is being squeezed.

An earthquake in far northeastern California was felt by thousands of people as far away as San Francisco and in two other states, but there have been no reports of injury or serious damage.

Ecuador's Rafael Correa is starting a third term as president under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.

In this Feb. 16, 2013 file photo, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gives a thumbs up to supporters as he stands with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, not in picture, on a balcony at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador.

The citizen initiative "14 million- Life, family and liberty" " [es], which opposes the free distribution of the day-after pill and other forms of family planning policy, has caused controversy among Ecuadorians.

President Rafael Correa waves to supporters as he leaves a polling station after voting in Quito, Feb.

Ecuador's new National Assembly, elected in Feb 17 elections that saw the ruling party win an overwhelming majority of seats, took office Tuesday for a period of four years.

Ecuador's president names new oil, finance ministers Thu May 9, 2013 9:1PM GMT presstv.ir Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has appointed a new oil minister and a new finance minister, as the socialist leader unveils a new cabinet for his third term in office.

On Monday, on a Columbia University panel discussing security policy alongside officials from Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala, Ecuadorian Ambassador to the US, Nathalie Cely, declared that maintaining trade programs, like the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act , is a "win-win solution" for the United States and its partners.

Ecuador's economic growth will slow to above 4 percent this year, central bank Chief Diego Martinez said on Wednesday, as weak overseas demand and trouble at the nation's biggest oil refinery bite into the Andean country's economy.

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A brawl between Ecuador's ambassador to Peru and two local women in a Lima supermarket has set off a diplomatic crisis between the two Andean neighbors 15 years after signing peace accords to end more than a century of conflict.

Proletarian issue 53 Citizens' revolution advances in Ecuador Correa's re-election strengthens the progressive trend in South America.

Ecuador 's bid to reduce poverty by taxing its banks is threatening to deepen the nation's economic slump, as lenders curb credit and ratchet up interest rates after profits plunged to a three-year low.

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa will name a new oil minister and a new finance minister next week, a high-ranking government official told the state-run news agency Andes on Tuesday.

Despite his own checkered human-rights track record, newly re-elected Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa this week slammed the U.S. Senate's rejection of a proposal to expand federal background check regulations, asking "who had appointed the U.S. arbiter of good and evil to rule on human rights in other countries." Correa said the rejection of the ... (more)

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Thursday Ecuador will seek to resume talks with the European Union on a trade deal to boost mutual benefits.