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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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.