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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.
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
Ecuador Votes to Make Its Congress Weaker
1:31 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Politics · 1 Comment
15 Apr 2007
Today, Sunday, Ecuadorians are voting in a referendum put forth by President Rafael Correa on whether to create a special assembly to rewrite the nation’s constitution. Correa, a leftist president, who has maintained popular support since winning the presidential seat, put forward the proposal in order to weaken the power the nation’s congress, accused of rampant corruption, holds. But critics are calling Correa’s moves “Chavezesque” and worry about him having too much unchecked power.
Correa has not offered detailed proposals for the anti-corruption measures he envisions will result from a new constitution. But he has mentioned that a new charter should eliminate the authority of Congress — which is controlled by Ecuador’s traditional parties — to name judges and other judicial and electoral authorities.”His goal clearly is to accumulate power. There is no doubt of that,” said Benjamin Ortiz, head of a think tank in Quito, Ecuador’s capital. “His style and form of governing is intolerance. What we don’t know is the economic model he wants to lead us to.”
Socialism anyone?
Ecuadorean terror victims will get Spanish citizenship
1:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Immigration| Spain · Comments Off
3 Jan 2007
Spain was rocked Saturday by a bombing at Terminal 4 of Madrid’s international airport, Barajas, in what looks to be the end of a truce between ETA and the Spanish government. Two of the victims in the attack were Ecuadorean immigrants, and now Spain is promising to grant the family members of the missing Spanish citizenship:
López Aguilar [Labor and Justice Minister] reminded the victims’ families that “the first time that terrorism hit foreign residents in Spain was with the March 11th attacks,” and that in this as well as that event the government “will do everything to make sure the family members receive Spanish citizenship.”“The two missing men are being searched for with insistence and in an effort that will not stop,” he said.
Colombia Almost Done Spraying
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador · Comments Off
26 Dec 2006
Colombia has been spraying potentially harmful herbicides over 25,000 acres of coca fields in a border zone shared with Ecuador. This spraying, backed by the United States, has created problems to say the least between the two South American nations, including Ecuadorian president-elect, Rafael Correa cancelling a planned visit to Bogota to protest the spraying. Colombia is saying that the spraying will end soon.
Via / Fox News
Ecuadorian president-elect Rafael Correa On Victory Tour
11:47 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Politics · Comments Off
7 Dec 2006
Tis the season for South American president-elect victory tours. Yesterday I wrote about Hugo Chavez’s tour. Ecuadorian President-elect Rafael Correa is starting his victory run today that will take him through Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia.
The Ecuadorian dignitary-elect is slated to meet with his counterparts Evo Morales, Bolivia; Hugo Chavez; Venezuela; Nestor Kirchner; Argentina and Michelle Bachelet, Chile, and Alan Garcia, Peru.
Via / La Prensa Latina
Image Via / RafaelCorrea.com
Correa and Noboa advance in Ecuador elections
2:58 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Latin America| Politics · Comments Off
16 Oct 2006
Following this past Sunday’s election day, the presidential race in Ecuador is heating up. Voters eliminated Christian conservative Cynthia Viteri (accused last week of election fraud) and three other candidates, and now two very different men are advancing to the run-off: one billionaire businessman (Álvaro Noboa) and one leftist Hugo Chavez ally (Rafael Correa):
According to data provided by E-vote, a company working with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Noboa has 26.78% of votes, followed by Correa with 22.43%, which means that both candidates will advance to the run-off.In third place was social democrat León Roldós with 15.93% and, almost tied, populist Gilmar Gutiérrez wit h15.64%, while christian Cynthia Viteri had 10.38%. All three are eliminated from the race to the presidency.
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