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  • Ecuador: Continental boosts stake in ERCO
    Continental Tire North America (CTNA) has increased its stake in Compania Ecuatoriana del Caucho S.A. (ERCO) to an unspecified majority share. The German supplier acquired a 42% stake in ERCO in 1987 ... This content is available to members only
  • Ecuadoran president ready to accompany Zelaya back to Honduras
    QUITO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said Friday that he is ready to accompany Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to Tegucigalpa this weekend. 'It was an invitation from Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya,' Correa
  • Communities bug out over cuts to mosquito control (AP)
    AP - Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.
  • Latin American Leaders To Accompany Zelaya Back To Honduras
    ? ? Limbo for Colombia Family Seeking Hostage Release ? Brazil To Accept Illegal Immigrants ? Argentina Media Focus AH1N1 Flu ? Your ad here! Latin American Leaders To Accompany Zelaya Back To Honduras Quito -- The heads of nine Latin American
  • Ambassadors Recalled from Honduras
    CRISIS IN HONDURAS Tegucigalpa - Several countries of Latin America and Europe decided to withdraw their ambassadors from Honduras showing opposition to the coup and urging the return of Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya. In Latin America, Ecuador,
  • Latin American Lawmakers Draft Honduras Text
    CRISIS IN HONDURAS Quito - Representatives from Latin American parliaments are to approve Thursday in this capital the final declaration of a special meeting to evaluate the political crisis in Honduras and possible consequences for the region. The
  • Ecuador has the most expensive banana in the region
    The official price of a box of bananas is currently priced at 5.05 USD, for the third trimester of 2009. This is generating problems amongst the exporters. Those prices are putting the marketing of the fruit in international markets in jeopardy, since
  • Perenco Warns It Will Take Legal Action Over Ecuadorian... (DJ)
    QUITO -(Dow Jones)- French oil company Perenco SA said Friday it will take legal action against any company that purchases or transports crude oil seized from it by the government of Ecuador. The government started to seize production from Perenco and
  • Interim president of Honduras asks people not t...
    The presidents of Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua urged the Hondurans to ?revolt? against the government of Micheletti Related Articles Western Hemisphere Roberto Micheletti, who was appointed president by Honduras Congress on Sunday, asked the
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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A border war with Peru that flared in 1995 was resolved in 1999.

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