ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests
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Gonzalo Ortiz
QUITO, Mar 11 (IPS) – ”This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” The words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 1942 defeat of Germany’s forces in Africa are an [...]
ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
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Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (IPS) – The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger ”saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something”.
The product of that realisation is [...]
US-ECUADOR: Luring Migrants Home an Uphill Battle
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Benedict Moran
NEW YORK, Oct 27 (IPS) – 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.
Domestic capital has fled. The government has defaulted on bond payments û twice û cutting [...]
