Ecuador News

The US Trade Representative's office has extended preferential trade terms with Ecuador despite an attempt by Chevron to have the status dropped ahead of a pending legal ruling against the company.

Contracts between the state petroleum company and several private companies raised some eyebrows when it was discovered that the brother of current president Rafael Correa was a member of some of the private enterprises.

Quito, Jun 25 Representatives from Movements of Friendship with Cuba are putting the final touches Thursday on the 14th National Assembly of Solidarity with the island, to be run June 27 in Quevedo, province of Los Rios.

Ecuador and Venezuela on Friday started their joint exploration for natural gas in the Gulf of Guayaquil, a large body of water in the Pacific Ocean in western South America.

Ecuador striker Felipe Caicedo has issued a writ against restaurant owners in his home country alleging racism after he was taken for a delinquent, local TV reported on Thursday.

Quito, Jun 23 The National Electoral Council still lacks on Tuesday the official results of the recent elections, a situation that is threatening to hinder that new Ecuadorian authorities take up their posts.

With the mountains of Cuenca - Ecuador's third-largest city and a United Nations World Heritage site - serving as a backdrop, children run energetically up and down a long concrete staircase, around the cones, and back again. They are part of a children's athletic program at Ecuador's famous Escuela de Marcha, a race-walking school that produced the country's only Olympic medalist, Jefferson Perez.

Three of the children have come to the school under very different circumstances from the others. They are Colombian, and their families have recently arrived in the tranquil Andean city as refugees.

"We certainly recognize that Chevron does not make a sympathetic victim here," company spokesman Kent Robertson told me over the telephone.

Construction has started on a multi-million-dollar spaceport in the New Mexico desert that is meant to launch private citizens into space.

Quito, Jun 14 National Electoral Council chairman Omar Simon on Sunday opened the electoral process in Ecuador to elect five Andean parliamentarians and 3,985 parish board members.

A faded sign welcomes visitors to "Lago Agrio, living earth". The town of 103,000, on the border of Colombia and Ecuador, is now at the centre of the biggest environmental lawsuit in history, with $27bn in potential damages.

Changes are noticeable in cities like Bogota , Quito , Rio do Janeiro , Mexico City , Guatemala City , Lima , Montevideo and Santiago .

Quito, Jun 6 Ecuador will officially become a full member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America during the special summit of this organization, to be run June 24 in Venezuela.

I recently decided to bring my family dog to Ecuador. This turned out to be one of the most fateful decisions of my life, leading to an experience so bizarre and fascinating that I feel compelled to share it publicly.

Quito, Jun 6 Public Health Ministry of Ecuador confirmed 51 cases of A flu in national territory.

Many Guayaquilans receive their water supply for drinking, washing, and cooking from delivery trucks.

New York, June 4, 2009--The opening of two government investigations into private television network Teleamazonas and threats of legal action by Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa against critical media outlets are an attempt by the government to stifle dissent, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

During the Burch family's trip to the Galapagos Islands in March, the Greenwich residents wrote a few postcards to send to family back home.

The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood.

Quito - Two pamphlet-bombs exploded Thursday night targeting the buildings of a TV channel and the Ecuadorian Education Ministry without reports of victims and major damages, Ecuadorian police said on Friday.