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• Ecuador feels `ill-treated’ in loan talks with China

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Quito, Dec 2 (EFE) 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ecuador: Dirty War in the Amazon By Christine Toomey

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen?
  1 week ago

• Southern Exposure

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 472
  The Woodrow Wilson Institute for International Scholars Mexico site picked up an article from El Universal that has captured what I think is one of Mexico’s greatest challenges… facing north when it should be looking south: Mexico was once boasted as a leader in Latin America, but is now an observer of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Greg Palast on Antiwar Radio: Latin America, Plan Columbia and Big Oil

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  with Greg PalastFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.gregpalast.comNovember 13, 2009Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses the domestic political motives behind the war posturing of Venezuela and Columbia, Obama’s embrace and expansion of Plan Columbia, the demonization of Hugo Chavez and Ecuador’s escape from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ecuador jails political dissidents: 15 Minutes on Latin America

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  In today’s podcast at 11AM, I interview Félix Pilco (above, right), one of the six people the Ecuadorian government jailed for putting up posters declaring president Rafael Correa “persona non grata” in their town. Related reading: Seis detenidos por declarar “persona no grata” al presidente Correa en ...
  5 weeks ago

• U.S. Military Bases in Colombia: Uribe’s Constitutional Hopscotch

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 103
  less than a year after arriving to power, the Obama-Clinton presidency has managed to do what no other leader has done in the 180 or so years since most South American countries obtained their independence from Spain: to unite South American countries in condemning U.S. policy in the region
  5 weeks ago

• Ecuador: Little Clarity On Citizens’ Revolution

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 125
  On Tuesday Risk Watchdog attended Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s exposition of the ‘The international economy, and the process of the citizen’s revolution in Ecuador’ at the London School of Economics. Or at least that was the title of his talk. Disappointingly there was very little description of how ...
  6 weeks ago

• Ecuador: The Tribes vs. Chevron-Texaco + Ecuador wants money not to drill in Amazon

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  Dandelion SaladlinktvOctober 27, 2009More at http://www.linktv.org/latinpulse(Latin Pulse: October 27, 2009) Thousands of people representing Ecuador’s indigenous tribes are suing Chevron-Texaco over the pools of toxic wastewater the company left behind. Following Chevron-Texaco’s 30 years of profit from ...
  6 weeks ago

• Ecuador Amazon Problem

  
  Gary A. Scott — Authority: 129
  Many readers sent me an article from Agora Financial entitled “The Chevron Witch Trial: The Changing Face of Resource Nationalism ” about the Ecuador Amazon problem and the ensuing Chevron lawsuit. See why these Ecuador export tour delegates are creating earning potential and doing some environmental good. ...
  6 weeks ago

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