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Venezuela to Colombia : A U.S. Base on the Border Means War
5:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador| Venezuela · 1 Comment
15 May 2008
With the lease of the U.S. military base in Manta, Ecuador expiring next year and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa vowing not to renew, the United States Ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, suggested that the Ecuador base could be moved to La Guajira inside Colombia, who maintains friendly diplomatic relations with the U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, not one to take a “wait and see” approach, said that placing a U.S. base in the region that spans northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, would equal nothing less than a threat of war.
“We will not allow the Colombian government to give La Guajira to the empire,” Chavez said, referring to the US during a speech to a packed auditorium of uniformed soldiers.
“Colombia is launching a threat of war at us.”
While Chavez certainly will be called out because he is the only one crying “war” , what would a U.S. military base on the Colombia/Venezuela border mean?
Via / Al Jazeera
When Latino Corporate Fighters Win Awards, The Corporates Get Mad
10:07 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Environment · Comments Off
18 Apr 2008
What does a multi-national company do when two Ecuadorians fighting against them win an award? They launch a PR battle attack. Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza were named the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients for their 14 year grassroots struggle against Chevron and the contamination that oil company has done against the country and people of Ecuador, specifically in the Amazon region.
In response, Chevron issued a press release and hold a press briefing saying that the company objects:
to the Goldman Foundation over its selection of personal injury lawyer Pablo Fajardo and his associate, Luis Yanza, who were revealed today as 2008 Goldman prize recipients. Chevron regrets that the organizers of the Goldman Environmental Prize were skillfully misled into naming Mr. Fajardo and Mr. Yanza as prize winners.
Ecuadorian Modelo/Assemblymember Wants to Save the Environment but Not Rape Victims or GLBT People
11:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Ecuador| Environment| GLBT| Politics| Women · 1 Comment
27 Mar 2008
Trying to show she’s more than just a pretty face, Rosanna Queirolo, won a seat on the Ecuadorian National Assembly on a platform promising to protect the environment and to provide a bridge to the Ecuadorian immigrant community in the United States. Once comfy in her seat of power however, she showed her true colors in positions about rape, abortion and the GLTB community.
For those non-Spanish dominant peeps, translation after the jump.
Colombia and Venezuela Make Nice
6:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador| Politics| Venezuela · Comments Off
10 Mar 2008
After a week of rising tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Yesterday Venezuela announced that it was reestablishing diplomatic relations with Colombia. This followed a Friday meeting between the parties in the Dominican Republic where the presidents of Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia signed a declaration to end a crisis sparked by the attack, when Colombian troops killed a rebel leader and 21 others inside Ecuadoran territory.
“The Venezuelan government will send to Bogota, immediately, diplomatic personnel charged with representing the republic before the government of Colombia,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement posted online Sunday. “In the same manner, the Venezuelan government has communicated to the Colombia authorities their disposition to receive in Caracas, in a short time, the diplomatic personnel of the sister republic.”
The three presidents even shook hands. Awww.
Via / CNN
Are Colombia, Ecuador & Venezuela Ready to Get Their War On?
12:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador| Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| Venezuela · Comments Off
4 Mar 2008
The media is all over the story that Ecuador and Venezuela are ready to declare war on Colombia. Ecuador and Venezuela have cut diplomatic ties with Colombia and sent troops to their respective borders with the nation run by Alvaro Uribe. Alvaro Uribe can indeed be seen as the cause of the war talk thanks to him allowing (some say officially ordering) his troops into Ecuadorian land to capture and kill FARC leader Raúl Reyes. In the raid laptops were captured, starting a war of documents on laptops as well. Colombia says that documents recovered reveal Hugo Chavez’s support of the FARC in terms of money. Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia’s national police chief in the cocaine trade.
Sea Lion Massacre in the Galapagos
8:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Environment · 3 Comments
29 Jan 2008
Few people actually care when Latin American people get massacred but Latin American animals still get our sympathy. 53 sea lions, 13 pups, 25 youngsters, nine males and six females, were found with their heads smashed in on Pinta island, part of the Galapagos Islands, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes the sea lions are killed and mutilated. The skin are hunted for, and the teeth and genitals of the male animals are removed for use as a supposed aphrodisiac in Chinese medicine but their was none of that here, just someone who wanted to kill animals.
Via / BBC
Ecuador’s Prez Correa Declares Victory on New Constitution
9:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Politics · Comments Off
1 Oct 2007
The trend in Latin America is to push to rewrite constitutions with socialist flair. Jumping on this trend is Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa. Unofficially, a quick count by a local citizens’ group at thousands of polls indicated strong support for the president’s party in a vote that happened yesterday. The official results won’t be known for at least 20 days. Some of the changes proposed include letting presidents serve two consecutive four-year terms instead of the one allowed now.
Story and Image Via / AP
Belgian judge halts deportation of Ecuadorean family
5:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Immigration| World · 2 Comments
30 Jul 2007
A mother and daughter from Ecuador who had been living in Belgium without papers for 4 years were about to get on a plane bound for Quito, but after a grassroots campaign which brought to light charges of abuse, a Belgian judge decided to halt the deportation order.
Judge Moris said this Monday that the arrest of Angélica, who spent 29 days with her mother in a closed center for the undocumented, caused her “trauma which constitutes inhumane and degrading treatment” which violates Article 3 of the European Human Rights Convention.The family’s lawyer, Selma ben Khelifa, had presented as evidence a psychological report dated July 5, another from the 19th and the conclusions of the child’s defender, Claude Lelièvre, who last week asked that the deportation order be nullified.
Ecuadorian air travelers get an eyefull
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Latin America| Marketing| Women| sex · Comments Off
27 Jun 2007Flights can be tedious, and some of us are thankful for in-flight movies and the solace of our iPods to while away the hours. But passengers on Ecuador’s Ícaro Airlines get a bit more than that, as the company has provided a group of scantily clad women who romp about the plane for the entertainment of the passengers. The video below will tell you all you need to know:
It seems objectification is a viable marketing tactic in Ecuador. But I guess this is no worse than the Hooters jet, though no mainstream airline here would dare this. Although Ícaro says it doesn’t rule out the possibility of having male models on its flights as well.
Via / 20 Minutos
Daryl Hannah down for indigenous in Ecuador
11:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Ecuador| Environment · Comments Off
6 Jun 2007
Last year, Daryl Hannah was up in a tree with Joan Baez, trying to save an L.A. farm from being taken over by developers. This year, she’s got her feet on the ground in Ecuador, for yet another environmental struggle:
…Daryl Hannah traveled through the thick Ecuadorian jungle on Monday to see for herself why 30,000 villagers and indigenous people of the Amazon are suing the oil company Chevron.The oil giant faces a trial in this town, located 110 miles to the east of Quito, for supposedly failing to clean up the spill of hundreds of millions of liters of toxic water.
The inhabitants of Lago Agrio, Ecuador, are asking that Chevron pay 6 billion dollars in damages.
Via / El Universal
Image via Washington Post – AP
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