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		<title>ECUADOR: Fate of Untapped Oil Hangs in the Balance &#8211; of Trust Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;Ecuador will not wait ad infinitum&#34; for a decision by the international community, and &#34;at the end of the year&#34; President Rafael Correa will decide whether to extract oil that was to have been left underground at the Yasuní [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haitian Trafficking Victims Discovered in Ecuador</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: Catholics Demand Removal of Far-Right Bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; 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&#8217;s Catholics, with the support of civil society organisations and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: Water Management Transcends &quot;Public or Private&quot; Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz * QUITO, Mar 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; 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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: &quot;The Verdict Against Chevron Is Enforceable, Because It Is Just&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Gonzalo Ortiz interviews JUAN PABLO SÁENZ, prosecuting attorney in Chevron case * QUITO, Feb 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: &quot;Universal Citizenship&quot; Clashes with Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;Good morning. I&#8217;ve come to see a friend,&#34; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: Social Movements to Go Ahead with Int&#8217;l Meetings Despite Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 7, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Diana Cariboni interviews activist JORGE ROJAS, a witness to the police uprising in Ecuador* MONTEVIDEO, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;We&#8217;re not letting him (President Rafael Correa) leave, and he&#8217;s going to pay for what he&#8217;s done to the police.&#34; That phrase from an Ecuadorian police official to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: Police Mutiny Threatens Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; The Ecuadorean government aims over the next five years to eradicate chronic malnutrition among children under one &#8212; 10 percent of whom are now undernourished &#8212; and reduce the rate among children under five from the current 22 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador Signs Deal Not to Drill in Amazon Nature Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;The trust fund that we have just established is historic, not only for Ecuador but for the entire world,&#34; said Rebeca Grynspan, associate administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), after signing an agreement with the government of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECUADOR: New Deadline for Renegotiating Oil Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, May 11&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; The government of Ecuador hopes to sign new services contracts with foreign oil firms operating in the country, to replace the 34 contracts currently in effect, by the end of the year. Wilson Pástor, who was named minister of non-renewable resources [...]]]></description>
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