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  • Ecuador: Draft Charter Favors Correa
    (QUITO, Ecuador) - A proposed new constitution grants Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa broad powers including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and would let him stay in office through 2017. The charter, up for initial
  • Ecuador's draft charter favors leftist president
    QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- A proposed new constitution grants Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa broad powers including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and would let him stay in office through 2017. The charter, up for
  • Highlights from Ecuador's draft constitution
    QUITO, Ecuador: Highlights from Ecuador's 444-article draft constitution, which would be the Andean nation's 20th. _ The president can dissolve Congress once and Congress will have one opportunity to unseat the president. In either case, general
  • Ecuador's president now in neocon crosshairs
    ( The neocons, especially those that inhabit the greater Miami area and hail from Cuba and New York, are accusing Correa of cracking down on press freedoms. It is the same cant heard from the neocons after Chavez closed two TV networks, RCTV and
  • South American cities with serious personal safety problems
    According to the region?s ranking Asunción, Paraguay, is in position 103, followed by Santiago de Chile, 110; Montevideo, 115; Brasilia, 131; Lima and Quito, 132 and Buenos Aires, 134. This means Brazilian cities such as Sao Paulo, Rio do Janeiro,
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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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