Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – "Ecuador will not wait ad infinitum" for a decision by the international community, and "at the end of the year" President Rafael Correa will decide whether to extract oil that was to have been left underground at the Yasuní [...]
Haitian Trafficking Victims Discovered in Ecuador
April 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – The four young Haitians told legal authorities that they were offered complete scholarships to the university, but that once they reached Ecuador they were locked up in a house and made to pay 150 dollars a month for rent [...]
ECUADOR: Catholics Demand Removal of Far-Right Bishop
March 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – The appointment of an ultra-conservative priest as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Sucumbíos, in northeastern Ecuador, triggered open rebellion among a large proportion of the area’s Catholics, with the support of civil society organisations and even [...]
ECUADOR: Water Management Transcends "Public or Private" Debate
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz * QUITO, Mar 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) – For one day, civil servants are trading their desks for the chilly highland plains in a rural community 3,500 metres above sea level on the outskirts of the Ecuadorian capital, where they are helping to plant native trees. [...]
Q&A: "The Verdict Against Chevron Is Enforceable, Because It Is Just"
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Gonzalo Ortiz interviews JUAN PABLO SÁENZ, prosecuting attorney in Chevron case * QUITO, Feb 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) – On Feb. 14, a provincial Ecuadorean court issued the harshest environmental verdict in history against a major oil company, the U.S.-based Chevron. But is there any chance it will be [...]
ECUADOR: "Universal Citizenship" Clashes with Reality
February 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) – "Good morning. I’ve come to see a friend," says a young man in a brown cap carrying a small plastic bag of apples. The receptionist opens the iron-barred door and lets him in to the aged, third-rate hotel in [...]
ECUADOR: Social Movements to Go Ahead with Int’l Meetings Despite Crisis
October 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 7, 2010 (IPS) – "What lies ahead in Colombia is an increase in the number of refugees and displaced persons, while in Guatemala and Mexico people are going to continue leaving their countries in difficult conditions in which they face dangers to their [...]
Q&A: The President "Is Going to Pay for What He’s Done"
October 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Diana Cariboni interviews activist JORGE ROJAS, a witness to the police uprising in Ecuador* MONTEVIDEO, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – "We’re not letting him (President Rafael Correa) leave, and he’s going to pay for what he’s done to the police." That phrase from an Ecuadorian police official to [...]
ECUADOR: Police Mutiny Threatens Democracy
October 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – With the backing of large crowds of supporters in the streets and of statements from presidents throughout Latin America, the Ecuadorian government of Rafael Correa is attempting to quell a riot by hundreds of police protesting a cut in [...]
ECUADOR: All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition
August 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) – The Ecuadorean government aims over the next five years to eradicate chronic malnutrition among children under one — 10 percent of whom are now undernourished — and reduce the rate among children under five from the current 22 percent [...]
