Ecuadoreans voted on Saturday on a reform package likely to give leftist President Rafael Correa more power over courts and media critics in the Andean OPEC-member nation, Reuters reported.
Big spending on schools, roads and hospitals have (...)
At least 35 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a Bus wreck in Ecuador, the Red Cross said Friday.
The wreck happened around 4 a.m. near Flavio Alfaro, the organization said. That's roughly 100 miles west of the capital of Quito, in (...)
The Ecuadorean government is the latest in Latin American to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state, as AP reported.
The Foreign Ministry says in a statement that President Rafael Correa officially recognized Palestine on Friday as «free and (...)
Ecuadorean officials say the death toll is now 38 from the crash of an overcrowded bus that plunged into a 1,100-foot (350-meter) ravine, according to AP.
A government statement says the number of injured has also risen, to 46.
Some of the (...)
Rescue workers said that a bus ran off a foggy, rainy mountain road in Ecuador and plunged about 1,100 feet (350 meters), killing 35 people and injuring 23 others.
AP quoted Red Cross worker Jorge Arteaga as saying by telephone that Friday's (...)
Hijjah 29, 1431, Dec 05, 2010, SPA -- Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano erupted Saturday, sending ash and lava spewing nearly a mile into the sky.
Residents evacuated the area after the country's National Agency of Risk Control issued a "red alert." The (...)
Qa'dah 07, 1431 H/Oct 15, 2010, SPA -- At least four miners in Ecuador were trapped underground after a cave-in on Friday at a gold mine in the South American country, Reuters quoted an official as saying.
The accident happened with the (...)
Calm was reported across Ecuador on Friday as South
American leaders condemned the apparent coup against Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa the previous day, according to dpa.
Correa, 47, made a triumphant return to the presidential (...)
Police were refusing to obey orders in a large part of Ecuador Thursday, leading to uncertainty and generally disrupting life on the streets.
Police were protesting a law passed Tuesday by the National
Assembly, which eliminates police (...)
A bus winding its way through Ecuador's highlands toward the capital of Quito went off the road before dawn on Sunday, killing 38 passengers in the worst accident of this kind in the country in years, Reuters reported.
Authorities said 12 more (...)
South American foreign ministers meet in Ecuador on Thursday to discuss broken ties between Venezuela and Colombia, with sparks likely over the two Andean nations' clashing plans to fix a crisis over leftist rebels.
The gathering of the 12-member (...)
Ecuadorean villagers fled their homes after the Andean nation's "Throat of Fire" volcano erupted today, spewing columns of ash that could affect flights, Reuters quoted authorities as saying.
In the second eruption in Latin America on Friday, loud (...)
Ecuador expects to secure $5 billion from German and Chinese banks next year to build a huge refinery project in a joint venture with Venezuela state oil company PDVSA, a top energy official said.
The Pacific Refinery, which will start (...)
Ecuador's leftist President
Rafael Correa said on Saturday he will travel to Russia late
this month to strengthen ties aimed in part at enhancing his
country's defenses, according to Reuters.
Correa is a critic of Washington and an ally of (...)
Some 1,000 police officers evicted 200 indigenous
people from a 70-hectare lot they had illegally occupied for more
than a year, Ecuadorian media reported Thursday, according to dpa.
The members of the Kichwa, Shuar and Hoaorani communities (...)
Ecuadorean President Rafael
Correa said on Saturday he plans to meet with Chevron Corp
officials and lawyers for 30,000 jungle residents who are suing
the U.S. oil giant for up to $16 billion over environmental
damages, according to (...)
Ecuador has formally notified the United States that
it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when the lease
expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, according to dpa.
Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of (...)
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel intercepted an Ecuadorean-flagged boat carrying three tonnes of cocaine worth about $95 million in an operation coordinated with Ecuador, the South American country's police said on Wednesday.
The cocaine smuggling boat (...)
