3/12/07

Ecuador’s Correa set for strong mandate after vote
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa appeared set to emerge with a strong mandate to dissolve Congress and approve sweeping reforms after claiming a majority in Sunday’s vote for an assembly to rewrite the constitution.
smartyes.com/view_contents.php?articleid=290

Ecuador seeks to outline its new Constitution
Translated from www.prensa.com – MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) – The guidelines of the constitution that the Constituent Assembly will begin on Monday, outlining generated doubts among businessmen and opposition parties who do not …
panamanewsblog.com/PanamaHeadlineNews/
Ecuador_seeks_to_outline_its_new_Constitution/

2/12/07

Constitutions
By Greg Weeks(Greg Weeks)
Ecuador ‘s constitutional assembly recently dissolved the legislature and took over its powers while it drafts a new constitution to be presented in a referendum within eight months. As in Venezuela and a number of other Latin American …
weeksnotice.blogspot.com/2007/12/constitutions.html

Saving Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
by Alejandro Nadal The Yasuní national park, found in Ecuador at the
intersection of the High Amazons and the Andean mountain range, is one of
the places …
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle
.cfm?SectionID=62&ItemID=14420

Ecuador Rainforest and Its Devestation by Oil Production
Ecuador rainforest is known for its biodiversity. But oil discovery in Ecuador Amazon in 1960s brought on one of the worst cases of oil pollution ever. Read more here.
www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/Ecuador-Rainforest.html

Ecuador to push tax overhaul bill, rich to pay more
Reuters – USA
The president’s tax proposals worry Wall Street analysts, who say deep
reforms could scare off foreign investment and hurt Ecuador’s ability to
repay …
www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0135144020071201

Ecuador to allow open pit mining if benefits seen
Reuters – USA
Last year, Ecuador suspended the start of work at the Mirador copper-gold
project due to clashes between communities in favor and against mining. …
today.reuters.com/investing/FinanceArticle.aspx?type=bonds
News&storyID=2007-12-01T181219Z_01_N01350058_RTRIDST
_0_ECUADOR-MINING.XML

1/12/07

Ecuador’s Military Base in Miami
By m.idrees
(Rueters, via Norman Finkelstein) Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific […]
fanonite.org/2007/12/01/ecuadors-military-base-in-miami/

War Paint and Lawyers
By Robalini(Robalini)
Known as “The Filing of the Law Suit,” natives of Ecuador’s jungle, decked in feathers and war paint and heavily armed with lawyers, are filmed presenting a new complaint in their litigation seeking $12 billion from Chevron Inc., …
robalini.blogspot.com/2007/12/war-paint-and-lawyers.html

Reforms mark ‘magical’ time for Ecuador: president
AFP –
MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AFP) — Leftist President Rafael Correa said Friday
that Ecuador was facing a “magical” time, after inaugurating a
constitutional …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIOhTxEk2ZDQf0CZdnVKz-jaIqKg

Ecuador has date for its OPEC return
Houston Chronicle – United States
By MAHER CHMAYTELLI Ecuador will officially rejoin the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries at a Wednesday meeting of the ministers of
the …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5343348.html

Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano showers ash on local villages
International Herald Tribune – France
AP QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano showered ash down on small
villages and showed increased signs of activity, the Andean country’s
Geophysics …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/01/
america/LA-GEN-Ecuador-Volcano.php

Ecuador Constituent Plenary at Full Speed
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Montecristi, Ecuador, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian Constituent
Assembly currently has full power without affecting the national democracy,
…
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD5FD
A2F5-17CE-4653-8CC7-2BF432EC04C0%7D)&language=EN

Anti-imperialist students from across Americas meet in Ecuador
The Militant – New York,NY,USA
BY EMILY PAUL QUITO, Ecuador—About 2600 students and other youth from
across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered here November 12—17 for
the 15th …
www.themilitant.com/2007/7146/714606.html

Reforms mark ‘magical’ time for Ecuador: president
By Signs of the Times(Signs of the Times)
Leftist President Rafael Correa said Friday that Ecuador was facing a “magical” time, after inaugurating a constitutional assembly that has sacked Congress to make way for his Venezuela-style socialist reforms. …
www.sott.net/articles/show/144599-Reforms
-mark-magical-time-for-Ecuador-president

Ecuador Constituent Plenary at Full Speed
Montecristi, Ecuador, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian Constituent
Assembly currently has full power without affecting the national
democracy, former Transportation Minister Trajano Andrade explained on Friday.
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD5FDA2F5
-17CE-4653-8CC7-2BF432EC04C0%7D&language=EN