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Ecuador: No Dial Tone, No Contract

The possible cancellation of the mobile telephone operating licence granted by Ecuador to Porta Celular, a company indirectly owned by Mexican multi-millionaire Carlos Slim, could set a precedent in Latin America.

Oil in Ecuador: Exploitation of Women and Natural Resources

Swedish construction company Skanska states the company "generates employment" when it actually deprives the local population the possibility to hunt, fish, and cultivate crops on its own terms.

A green light to transform Ecuador

By electing a Constituent Assembly on Sept. 30, Ecuadoreans gave President Rafael Correa an ample majority, with which he has carte blanche to change the rules of the political-economic game.

Ecuador Protests Treatment of President at US Airport

Ecuador has lodged a formal protest to the United States regarding the treatment last week of President Rafael Correa by U.S. immigration officials.

Ecuador wants military base in Miami

Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

Ecuador to rejoin OPEC

Ecuador plans to officially rejoin OPEC at the cartel's next meeting in November as part of President Rafael Correa's promise to revive its flagging crude industry, Oil Minister Galo Chiriboga said Monday.

Scenes from the class struggle in Ecuador

Most of what we hear about the left in Latin America takes one of two forms: either American leaders denouncing Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist president whose Bolivarian Revolution has been the centerpiece of Latin America's recent leftist renaissance, or a general denunc …

Ecuador's president decrees government to take 99 percent of windfall oil profits

Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa decreed on Thursday that the government will take 99 percent of windfall oil profits that had previously been split with foreign oil companies.

Global Consensus, Not Global Conquest

As world leaders gather this week to address the United Nations General Assembly, President Bushs refusal to negotiate on the two key issues of our daywar and global warminghas been stunning. And the media havent helped.

Ecuador: Clash of old and new

Denouncing the congress as "rubbish" and a "national disgrace", left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called on the upcoming constituent assembly, for which there will be elections held on September 30, to dissolve the body, which is widely viewed as corrupt.

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