Ecuador News Archives

"Ladies and gentlemen, who hasn't dressed as a widow on the 31st of December?" a woman asked on the downtown streets of Quito, Equador.

The leaders of Russia and Ecuador signed on Thursday in Moscow a declaration on strategic partnership in politics, security, environmental protection, education, science, culture and tourism.

Agencies Ecuador, Oct 28: An Indian-built Dhruv, or Advanced Light Helicopter, has crashed at a military parade in Quito, Ecuador.

President Rafael Correa Delgado of Ecuador arrives on a three-day official visit in Russia Wednesday at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The two-man crew of an Ecuadorian air force Dhruv light helicopter escaped with their lives after crashing the Hindustan Aeronautics-built aircraft during a flight demonstration on 27 October.

QUITO, Ecuador - Foreign pharmaceutical companies accepted on Wednesday Ecuador's decision to bypass patents in order to produce less expensive generic versions of some patented drugs.

Russia and Ecuador have signed seven documents, including on cooperation in the energy sector and in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Quito, Oct 28 : An Ecuadorian Air Force helicopter crashed Tuesday as it flew near Quito air base during celebrations to mark the 89th anniversary of the service, Ecuadorian media reported.

BANGALORE: A Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter manufactured by the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has a Ph.D. in economics, though it may not have prepared him for the recent financial turmoil that beset his coastal country.

Foreign pharmaceutical firms including Pfizer agreed Wednesday to accept Ecuador's decision to bypass patents on 2,000 drugs in order to produce them locally or buy cheaper versions elsewhere.

Quito, Equador: An Indian-manufactured Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter crashed during a military parade injuring its two pilots and prompting the grounding of another six.

An Indian-made Dhruv helicopter crashed here during a military parade injuring its two pilots and prompting authorities to ground another six recently purchased Dhruv choppers.

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The Ecuadorian women who weave Panama hats high in the Andes are descendants of the indigenous Quichua people.

Visiting and teaching children in Ecuador was not enough for a group of Spanish students at the University of Redlands.

GONZALO SOLANO QUITO, Ecuador a ' Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve.

Quito, Oct 22 President of Ecuador Rafael Correa highlighted the dignity and resistance spirit of the Cuban people when he answered a question last night in the program Palabras Sueltas of national public television.

Moscow, Oct 22 Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa''s visit to Russia and a joint commission''s meeting next week will reinforce bilateral bonds, Ecuadorian ambassador to Russia Patricio Chavez stated in that capital.

Quito, Oct. 22 The Ecuadorian government put the Emergency Operation Centers in the provinces of Napo, Pichincha and Scumbios in the state of alert, faced with new eruptive activity of El Reventador volcano.

Panama hats have made the leap from the heads of Hollywood icons and intrepid jungle explorers to the fashionable masses of Europe and the United States.

Nine people were killed in separate incidents in the north-central city of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Ecuadorian media reported Friday.

Leftist Rafael Correa was elected president on promises of curtailing the power of Ecuador's rich elites.

Ecuadorian hip-hop artist Equis recently performed in Guayaquil [es] , and Princesa Quil was impressed the performance.

Currently instead of enjoying the thrill of tea baggers in the United States I am spending my semester in the picturesque Andes Mountains in Cuenca, Ecuador where the elevation is high and a visiting student has many opportunities to fall ill.

Western Nevada College continues its Friday night series of films that span the continents and portray the lives and struggles of people of different cultures.

Christie announced that Supercines, the largest and most modern cinema chain in Ecuador, selected Christie CP2000-SB digital cinema projectors to equip its newest 15-screen multiplex in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.

Ecuador said Thursday that Colombia suspended an upcoming meeting of the bilateral Security Commission, citing an Ecuadorian investigation of Bogota's armed forces chief.

Arrived In Quito.... Breathless.... Could be from the general excitement of starting off on seven months of travel and going round the world for the first time, but equally could just be because this place is so bloody high! The city sits at the same altitude as a substantial alp and the hill above the town is higher than Mont Blanc! This will be ...

A Quichua family living in the Ecuadoran rain forest. Photograph by: Janet Greidanus/Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Journal The guide hushed us as we walked through the jungle in our rubber boots.

For World Mission Sunday 2009, in the four sectors of the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, there will be 'Missionary Festivals' for 'praying and celebrating all our missions and missionaries throughout the world.' This is what a statement sent to Agenzia Fides from the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ecuador, Youth Ministry, Catechesis, and ...

Colombian Military Forces Commander, Gen. Freddy Padilla, told journalists on Wednesday that the increase in the number of troops in the border with Ecuador is a response to an Ecuadorean Government request.

I had to do it, I had to follow the bread crumb trail to Cuenca Ecuador to see why International Living and others haver called it a best place in the world to retire, last week and maybe this week also.

Friends and family on Sunday honored a Cal State Los Angeles student who was brutally murdered during a trip to Ecuador.

Holding back tears, Gloria Lema sat with 100s of people inside a church in North University Park Sunday as they remembered her daughter, Daniella Lopez.

The protests are the first big test for Ecuador's left-wing President Rafael Correa, first elected in 2006 on the platform of a "citizen's revolution" promising to build a "21st century socialism" in the small Andean country.

A 60-day a oestate of exceptiona went into effect Sept. 30 for Quito, Guayaquil and Manta allowing the army to work with the national police to combat crime and control weapons and vehicles.

Robert F. Kennedy's daughter sided with Ecuadorean Indians and farmers in their $27 billion environmental lawsuit against oil giant Chevron, saying Thursday after visiting former Amazon drilling sites that the case compares unfavorably to the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill.

Sinohydro Corp., Chinaa s biggest dam builder, will construct a $2 billion hydroelectricity project in Ecuador, the official Xinhua news agency reported .

After more than 30 years of waiting, hopes were rising again that the most famous tortoise on the Galapagos Islands, Lonesome George, may finally become a father and promote his robust genes for another generation.

Oct 6 - The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands was first described by Charles Darwin in 1845 but Darwin could never have foreseen the creeping impact of global warming.

Just one year away from graduating from Cal State, Los Angeles resident Daniela Lopez travelled to Ambato, Ecuador this summer to volunteer and visit family, but on Sept.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Monday signed a contract with representatives of China's Sinohydro corporation to build a 2-billion-U.S.-dollar hydroelectric project in the country.

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Quito, Oct 1 Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the indigenous communities to stop violence and invited the Indigenous Confederation of Nationalities for talks to avoid killings.

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Last year, I was elected to receive my school's AFS scholarship to travel abroad.

Police on Wednesday battled Amazon Indians protesting laws they believe would encourage oil drilling and mining on their lands, leaving one Indian dead and 40 police and nine Indians wounded, officials said.