Tag: Ecuador
EcuadorIran’s Ahmadinejad will visit four Latinamerican countries next January
The Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad will be travelling to Latinamerica in the second week of January 2012 to visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador, announced the Teheran presidential office, according to a report from the official news agency FNA.
Lugo complains restrictions on market access and in energy integration
Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo called for the free flow and free access of his country’s goods to Mercosur senior members’ markets and insisted on the energy integration of the block.
Ecuador wants closer ties between Mercosur and the Andean-Pacific countries
Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa said he was satisfied with having presented an official request for his country to join Mercosur and also called for closer links between Mercosur and the Andean Nations Community, CAN.
US tries to re-establish full relations with Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela
United States continues to dialogue with Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, countries where it has no ambassadors in an attempt to normalize relations, said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland.
Repsol-YPF extracts almost 10% of Ecuador’s oil production
Repsol-YPF has raised its output in Ecuador to 45.000 bpd thanks to two new wells in the Amazon region, although the Spanish oil major still is forecasting a steady decline in production in the coming years, company executives said.
Ecuadorean volcano spews red-hot rock and ash; populations abandon risk area
Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.
Ecuador says it is breaking oil daily production record
State-owned oil company Petroecuador said it broke its daily production record on Tuesday 15 November, pumping 156.359 barrels of crude on that day. Production from Jan. 1 to Nov. 8 totalled 47,096,086 barrels of crude, Petroecuador said in a report.
Ecuador president condemns killing of Gaddafi and family members as ‘homicide’
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa described the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as a “murder” and strongly rejected foreign in the North African country.
Ecuador land of exquisite cacao, major sponsor at Chocolate Week in London
Ecuador has been announced as a major sponsor and exhibitor of the National Chocolate Week in London, the UK’s biggest and most indulgent chocolate celebration.
Ecuadorian high court upholds ruling sentencing journalists to prison and fines
An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld criminal libel convictions and three-year prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former editorialist over a column that called populist President Rafael Correa a dictator.
