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On the beach at Manta, one of Ecuador's main Pacific ports, the handicraft sellers have expanded their souvenir ranges. Alongside the traditional carved turtles, palm trees and sea-birds carved from [...]

QUITO -- The Hilton hotel and an American Airlines office in Quito were damaged by two bombs set off by a leftwing group protesting against economic measures introduced by Ecuador's [...]

Ecuador's finance minister, Mauricio Pozo, compares himself to the head of a household who has recently found work again and needs to get the family finances in order. With bills [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, Ecuador's president, has ordered the military into Guayaquil port, the country's biggest facility, as part of a plan to 'cut out corruption at its roots' in [...]

QUITO -- President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador has raised fuel prices and cut public sector wages to try to close a Dollars 2bn (Pounds 1.2bn) financing gap and satisfy the [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez became president of Ecuador yesterday, three years after leading a short-lived coup that toppled the presidency of Jamil Mahuad at the height of an economic crisis, [...]

QUITO -- The International Monetary Fund agreed yesterday to send a mission to Ecuador 'which would aim to conclude agreement on an economic programme' that would underpin a stand-by loan [...]

QUITO -- SunTrust, the first US regional bank to report results for the fourth quarter, reported a 5 per cent drop in earnings as rising expenses and tight margins related [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador has launched a round of tenders for oil and gas exploration in four blocks off its Pacific coast, which state oil company PetroEcuador said would require investment [...]

QUITO -- Van Oord Marine Contractors of the Netherlands will begin work in February dragging the access channel to Guayaquil, Ecuador's busiest port, after winning the Dollars 16m concession. It [...]

SAO PAULO, BUENOS AIRE, QUITO and CARACAS -- The website of Mexico's main employers' organisation carries the pictures of 10 alleged members of 'Los Villegas', a notorious kidnap gang. 'If [...]

Lucio Gutierrez entered the presidential palace in Quito this week in somewhat different circumstances from the last time he did so, almost three years ago. In January 2000 Colonel Gutierrez [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the former army colonel who led a coup nearly three years ago, is set to become Ecuador's new leader after yesterday's presidential election, according to preliminary [...]

QUITO -- A leftwing politician who led a military coup just under three years ago yesterday held a commanding opinion poll lead as campaigning ended ahead of Sunday's presidential elections [...]

QUITO -- Allegations that Alvaro Noboa, the wealthy South American businessman and one of two run-off candidates in Ecuador's presidential election, gained control of his family's banana business by defrauding [...]

QUITO -- A Canadian consortium today takes over the administration of Quito international airport as part of its concession to build a new Dollars 400m airport to serve the Ecuadorean [...]

QUITO -- US banana importers want Latin American growers and exporters to help them boost Dollars 4bn retail sales of the fruit in the US, the world's biggest market. 'Bananas [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador's private oil sector was expected to take stock this week after SRI, the country's tax agency, won key points over Canadian oil company EnCana in a lawsuit [...]

QUITO -- A volcanic eruption has wiped out most of Ecuador's harvest of summer flowers being grown for the peak Valentine's Day season. El Reventador belched into life this week [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the Ecuad-orean presidential candidate, has widened the lead over rival Alvaro Noboa ahead of final elections on November 24. Mr Gutierrez's platform of fighting corruption, increasing [...]

Ecuador's capital, Quito, was at a virtual standstill yesterday (pictured above) as ash continued to fall on the city following Sunday's eruption of El Reventador volcano, Nicholas Moss reports from [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador will post several thousand police to provinces bordering Colombia by January, in an attempt to increase security and prevent a further spillover of problems from its northern [...]

LONDON and QUITO -- Trade ministers from 34 western hemisphere countries meet tomorrow in Quito to try to remove obstacles to an ambitious plan to negotiate by 2005 a free [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the former army colonel and leftwing populist who emerged yesterday as one of two final candidates in Ecuador's presidential race, sports an unusual ensemble: fatigues and [...]

QUITO -- Among the colourful banners and candidates' posters hung by voters in shops and houses in Quito, the orange number 12 has been most prominent. Ecuadorean elections are something [...]

When Ecuador's finance minister, Francisco Arosemena, meets investors in New York today he is expected to outline a programme that goes some way to satisfying the International Monetary Fund. But [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador police suspect that a British oil technician, missing in the Amazonian jungle near the border with Colombia, has been kidnapped. Ecuadorean soldiers captured two Colombian Farc guerrillas [...]

QUITO -- Energy Development Corporation, a US oil and gas exploration and production company, will today open an electricity generation plant in Ecuador as part of a Dollars 300m natural [...]

QUITO -- Terra Nova, a British insurance underwriter at Lloyd's, was ordered by an Ecuadorean judge to pay Dollars 10m (Pounds 6.4m) for environmental damages caused by an oil tanker [...]

Eliseo Gomez, president of Spanish oil giant Repsol-YPF's operations in Ecuador, has made way for Carlos Arnao, an Ecuadorean. The appointment is a novelty in Ecuador because Arnao is the [...]

QUITO -- Carlos Julio Emanuel, who resigned as Ecuadorean finance minister last month, was today facing arrest ahead of a possible trial for his role in an alleged Dollars 100m [...]

QUITO -- As Ecuador's dollarised economy approaches its second anniversary there is no shortage of well-wishers ready to impart advice for a healthy future. One prescription comes from the International [...]

Andrew Patterson has become president of OCP, a consortium that represents six international oil companies and a construction group building one of the biggest oil pipeline projects in South America. [...]

For a century the Tesalia Spring Company has bottled water in Ecuador from springs on the skirts of Cotopaxi, the world's highest active volcano. Its naturally sparkling or 'con gas' [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador pipeline suffers setback Ecuador's biggest pipeline project, the OCP, has been forced to reduce planned capacity by half as shareholders cut investment after a dispute with the [...]

GUAYAQUIL -- The presidents of South America have dismissed the idea of supplying soldiers for a regional armed force to help Colombia fight drug traffickers and the guerrilla groups that [...]

QUITO -- Exporters and producers of bananas from Ecuador, the world's biggest exporter of the fruit, agreed yesterday to implement a ban on child workers. An accord that aims to [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador was yesterday crippled by strikes with protesters from various sectors threatening further action. Government negotiators appeared unable to avoid strikes running into their third week on Monday [...]

QUITO -- Oil spill hits Galapagos Scientists from the Galapagos National Park believe they can avoid an ecological disaster after 2,000 gallons of diesel spilled into the sea off Isabela [...]

QUITO -- The resignation of Carlos Julio Emanuel, the Ecuadorean finance minister, amid corruption allegations surrounding ministry officials has raised slim hopes that his successor will be able to speed [...]

QUITO -- While Ecuador, like much of the world, focuses its attention on the World Cup, baseball offers a better analogy for the government's recent policy problems. In the past [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador attracts US displeasure The US has criticised Ecuador for failing to control the transfer of arms into Colombia and not stemming the flow of illegal immigrants. The [...]

Ecuador's finance minister moved a significant step closer to signing a fresh loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund after negotiations in Washington concluded a draft accord. Carlos Julio Emanuel [...]

The US's big fruit companies and exporters will come under fire today from the country's largest human rights organisation. Chiquita Brands, Del Monte Fresh Produce and Dole Food are blamed [...]

Fruit groups under fire The US's big fruit companies and exporters will come under fire today from the country's largest human rights organisation. Chiquita Brands, Del Monte Fresh Produce and [...]

QUITO -- The graffiti read: 'For sale: beautiful country, sea views. Inquire at the presidential palace.' It was one of the more lyrical protests against the sale of state assets [...]

For those countries that recently adopted the US dollar, Argentina's economic collapse serves warning that the hard work is still ahead. Dollarisation has brought stability and credibility to El Salvador [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador's government wants more money to strengthen its northern border and prevent the infiltration of Colombian leftwing guerrillas. Concern has been growing in Quito since the Colombian army [...]

LONDON, SAO PAULO and QUITO -- Enel, the state controlled Italian energy group, has won a second large contract to construct and operate part of Brazil's growing national electricity grid [...]

AbdalaBucaram is aformer president who knows howto enjoy himself. He danced with his running mate during an election campaign, sang in public at every opportunity, performing 'Jailhouse Rock' on stage [...]