Ecuador News
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Quito -
Colombia's last rebel group is seeking US guarantees that Washington will not seek the extradition of its negotiators in future peace talks, after Ecuador's surprise decision not to host the negotiations.
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By AFP
Apo -
Ecuador will no longer host peace talks between Colombia and that country's last rebel group, Bogota's foreign minister said on Wednesday after recent attacks on the border between the neighbors.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador on Wednesday said it was suspending its role as guarantor of the peace talks between Colombia's government and ELN guerrillas which have been hosted in Quito since early 2017.
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By AFP
Quito -
Two more Ecuadorans have been kidnapped near the border with Colombia by the same group responsible for the recent abductions and killing of two journalists and their driver, the government said on Tuesday.
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By AFP
Apo -
Renegade Colombian rebels suspended plans Monday to hand over the bodies of a three-man Ecuadoran journalist team kidnapped and killed on the two countries' border, the Red Cross said.
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By AFP
Apo -
The kidnapping and killing of two journalists and their driver has thrown up an uncomfortable truth for Colombia and Ecuador, analysts say: that their long-neglected border has become a drug traffickers' nirvana.
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By AFP
Quito -
Two journalists and their driver kidnapped on March 26 in Ecuador by dissident FARC rebels were killed on the Colombian side of the border, Interior Minister Cesar Navas said Sunday.
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By AFP
Quito -
The three members of an Ecuadoran journalist team who died in captivity after being abducted by a Colombian rebel group were following a story on violence that ended up costing their lives.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador on Friday confirmed the deaths of two journalists and their driver who had been kidnapped by renegade Colombian rebels -- and quickly launched a retaliatory military operation in the area where they were snatched.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno announced Thursday he would return home from the Summit of Americas in Peru to address a "critical situation" related to a team of abducted reporters following reports they had been killed.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador's presidency said Tuesday it will do "everything possible" to gain the release of a press team abducted a week ago on the troubled border with Colombia.
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By AFP
Apo -
An Ecuadoran press team abducted a week ago on the border with Colombia appeared in a video on TV Tuesday and asked Quito to help secure their release.
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By AFP
Apo -
Dissident Colombian rebels are believed to be holding hostage two Ecuadoran journalists and their driver who were abducted this week, the head of Ecuador's armed forces said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador on Wednesday said it has stopped Julian Assange's ability to communicate to the outside world from its London embassy, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up since 2012.
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By AFP
Quito -
Two journalists for an Ecuadoran newspaper and their driver were abducted on the border with Colombia in a zone where former Colombian FARC rebels remain active, officials said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Quito -
Three Ecuadoran soldiers were killed and at least seven other people were injured Tuesday in a bomb explosion on the country's northern border with Colombia, the government said.
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By AFP
Bogota -
A drug kingpin dubbed Ecuador's "Pablo Escobar" who was under arrest in Colombia was extradited to the United States early Saturday, local officials said here.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador's efforts to negotiate the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed, the South American country's foreign minister admitted Friday.
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By AFP
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday lost his legal battle to overturn a British arrest warrant against him, and with it his hopes of freely leaving Ecuador's London embassy where he has been holed up since 2012.
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By AFP
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Here are key dates in Julian Assange's extradition battle as the WikiLeaks founder loses his new court bid Tuesday to cancel the UK arrest warrant hanging over him.
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By AFP
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will on Tuesday find out whether the British arrest warrant hanging over him is to be cancelled, potentially paving the way for him to leave Ecuador's London embassy.
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By AFP
Puerto Ayora -
With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands are one of the most beautiful places you will probably never visit.Why not?
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By AFP
Bogota -
Police seized 3.3 tonnes of cocaine and arrested 21 people in coordinated raids involving five Latin American countries, Colombia said Tuesday.Most of the drug was meant to be shipped to Central America and the United States.
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By AFP
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A British judge upheld an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday but delayed until next week her decision on a further application by his lawyers to cancel it.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuadorans on Sunday voted to bar ex-president Rafael Correa from being able to make a comeback in 2021 by unmistakably backing a referendum question on reimposing presidential term limits.
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By AFP
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Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter.
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For millions of years, new-born hammerhead sharks have grown up in nurseries sheltered by the mangrove swamps and reefs of the Galapagos Islands, safe from all human threat.
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By AFP
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Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in Ecuador's embassy in London for five years, asked a court on Friday to remove the arrest warrant hanging over him.
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By AFP
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The ongoing six-year confinement of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London's Ecuadorian embassy is dangerous to his physical and mental health, according to new clinical assessments conducted.
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By AFP
Quito -
The president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno on Sunday described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as an "inherited problem" that has created "more than a nuisance" for his government.
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Ecuador's diplomatic car awaiting Edward Snowden at Moscow Airport YouTube / Screengrab
Photograph of Bassaricyon neblina "Olinguito" taken in the wild at Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Ecuador Mark Gurney
Deforestation of the Montane Rainforest in Ecuador, province Zamora-Chinchipe, along the road to Loja-Zamora in 2011. Gunnar brehm
Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino shows a photo of a surveillance device found in the embassy in London. YouTube
Edgar Muenala on stage of Fusion Festival in Surrey, BC.
Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupts, December 18, 2012. YouTube
A protest in Quito, Ecuador. At the centre of the crowd is President Correa, facing tear gas YouTube screenshot
With supporters, as President, he exclaims, "Today I won Ecuador.' Campaign winning
Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Ecuador TV by Presidencia de la República del Ecuador
Police in Ecuador have seized around 200,000 sharks fins which were about to be illegally exported to Asia. The fins - often used to make soup - were discovered after raids on nine locations in the port city of Manta. World Network TV
A Giant River Otter swims amid rain forest reflections in Anangu Creek in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Via National Geographic Instagram feed
Screen capture of oil spill originating in Ecuador in 2013 Diario HOY Ecuador/YouTube screen shot
Post-Election Poster showing a happy winner. Correa Campaign
Winning look of Correa PAIS
A shot of the violence taking place in Ecuador after the government announced austerity measures. jpcattan
Election poster urging a continuation of a revolution PAIS
Quito, Ecuador Patricio Mena Vásconez
Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Ecuador TV by Presidencia de la República del Ecuador
Two months into his second term a national poll put his popularity at 90 %. Facebook
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño Patofile
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