Tag: Ecuador

• 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.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 00:28 UTC

  Mercosur wants Bolivia and Ecuador to become full members

  

  Mercosur plans to begin negotiations with associate members Bolivia and Ecuador to make them full members, said Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Antonio Patriota during Wednesday’s presidential summit in Paraguay.

• Sunday, June 26th 2011 - 02:46 UTC

  China loans and oil prices boost Ecuador economy two years after default

  

  Ecuador’s bonds are rewarding investors with the best performance in Latin America as Chinese loans and higher oil prices boost confidence in the economy two years after the country defaulted on 3.2 billion US dollars in debt.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 02:24 UTC

  “With a few drops of its reveres, China can finance Ecuador’s development”

  

  Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa said China has one of the largest liquid international reserves in the world and could with “a few drops” finance the development of his country and the whole of Latin America.

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 03:14 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori with minimum lead over Humala in Peru presidential run-off

  

  Conservative Keiko Fujimori is two percentage points ahead of nationalist Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential runoff next Sunday June 5, according to the latest opinion polls, but the difference is too tight to anticipate a clear winner.

• Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 19:22 UTC

  Ecuador’s Correa wins vote for judicial and media reforms

  

  President Rafael Correa won Ecuador's vote on judicial and media reforms, but by a smaller margin than forecast, near-final results showed on Wednesday evening.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  Correa heading for referendum victory but with a lesser margin than expected

  

  Vote count in Ecuador showed President Rafael Correa heading for a referendum victory on Thursday after he accused electoral officials of delaying the tally in pro-government regions.