Ecuador News

Caracas, Feb 8 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has confirmed his attendance next Tuesday in Ecuador to a meeting of the South American Union of Nations which will define regional aid for Haiti.

South American leaders deeply divided by political differences may take a break from their usual recriminations on Tuesday when they meet to discuss the continent's response to the crisis in quake-shattered Haiti.

A colony of sea lions endemic to the Galapagos Islands have moved 1,500km away, a Peru-based organisation which monitors the aquatic mammals has said.

Quito, Feb 6 The Ecuadorian government strongly rejected the "insidious" article published by the US daily the New Herald, that reports the Andean nation as a center of criminal operations.

Cuenca is the third largest city in Ecuador. UNESCO has also named it a World Cultural Heritage Site.

Ecuador is emerging as a focus for transnational criminal groups, according to US and European officials.

Reporting from Guayaquil, Ecuador - The beat cop quickly discovered why the three men at the entrance to the storage yard had bolted as he pulled up in his patrol car.

Despite the commitment shown by Ecuador to eliminate child labour, the scourge remains a major obstacle to the country's development efforts, said an independent United Nations human rights expert.

Galapagos Islands and the Amazon are among the 28 finalists of the contest "New 7 Wonders of Nature", Rodrigo Salas, director of Ecuador Tourism Promotion, said.

Quito, Jan 26 Expert scouting parties to attend the 12-vice-defense-minister meeting of the Union of South American Nations member countries began to arrive in this capital.

Lots of people filled up Christmas packages for children in need through Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child program, but Curtis and Kathie Nappier of Aiken have the chance to see their shoe box gifts all the way through to the end.

Quito, Jan 28 A moving political-cultural ceremony was held on Thursday to pay tribute to the 157th anniversary of Jose Marti''s birth and the 98th anniversary of the assassination of national hero, Gen.

Quito, Jan 28 The deputy defense ministers of the Union of South American Nations meet Thursday to fulfil the agenda agreed by the regional heads of State in the Quito Declaration last August.

Gina Brown of Rockmart is preparing to travel to Ecuador to deliver shoe boxes filled with gifts as part of a special team with Operation Christmas Child.

Nurse practitioner, Marilyn Boogaard, left, of Lebanon, sits with a girl and her mother at the medical clinic in Tosagua, Ecuador, in this photo provided by Guy Braxton.

When Haley Johnston took care of malnourished children at a medical clinic in Ecuador, often all it took to make them feel better were Flintstone vitamins.

Sales abroad may slide to about 120,000 tons of the bean used to make chocolate from about 130,000 tons last year, the first drop since 2000, said Xavier Elizalde, manager of the National Association of Cocoa Exporters.

Quito, Jan 20 Ecuadorian Minister for Politics Coordination Ricardo Patio announced the creation of a political movement of socialist nature, aimed at the continuation of the People''s Revolution.

Yasuni National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters a range of world biodiversity records-from trees to amphibians to insects to mammals and an array of other plant and animal groups-new research from U.S. and Ecuadorian scientists shows.

Chevron Corp. asked a U.S. court to dismiss Ecuadora s attempt to block an international arbitration panel from deciding who should pay damages in a lawsuit seeking as much as $27 billion for environmental cleanup.