Tag: Ecuador

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:29 UTC

  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.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:02 UTC

  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.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 18:21 UTC

  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.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 00:11 UTC

  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.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 07:16 UTC

  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.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:12 UTC

  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.

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:12 UTC

  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.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  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.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 05:53 UTC

  The most tragic year in two decades for Latin America journalists

  

  Journalists in Latin America are suffering through their “most tragic year in two decades,” with 19 reporters murdered in nine nations so far in 2011, the Inter-American Press Association said in its latest release.

• Friday, July 22nd 2011 - 02:04 UTC

  International press blasts Ecuadorian court libel suit ruling on freedom of expression

  

  The International Press Institute (IPI) blasted an Ecuadorian court’s decision to jail a journalist and three executives of critical opposition daily El Universo for libeling President Rafael Correa, and to impose 40 million dollars in fines against the defendants and the newspaper.