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• In Colombia, Obama to face pressure on Cuba, drugs

  city of Cartagena for the Summit of the Americas. Notably absent will be Cuban leader Raul Castro, as well as the president of Ecuador, who is boycotting over Havana's continued exclusion from the hemispheric meetings.The White House , wary of a foreign policy   Read more »

• Thousands forced from homes by floods in Ecuador

  -- Ecuador's government says floods and mudslides have caused at least 10 deaths so far this year and forced about 4,700 people to flee their homes.Heavy rains have set off mudslides in some areas and caused rivers to overflow.The government emergency management   Read more »

• China explores Bolivia lithium investments

  its reserves.He noted that so far much of China's investments in Latin America have gone to other countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Direct Chinese investments totaled more than $15 billion in Latin America and the Caribbean   Read more »

• Danbury theater owner gets 18 months in prison

  Danbury property owner has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for causing the death of an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador during a confrontation in November 2009.The News-Times of Danbury reports (http://bit.ly/ycRjKO ) that a Superior Court judge imposed   Read more »

• Chinese invest $1.4 billion in Ecuador copper mine

  says the Mirador copper deposit in Zamora Chinchipe province has reserves of 5 billion pounds and a 25-year life. He says Ecuador will get at least 52 percent of profits.President Rafael Correa 's government has angered indigenous groups by insisting they   Read more »

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• More candidates emerge for top OPEC post

  Exporting Countries, helps formulate the group's output policy and is in charge of OPEC's Vienna secretariat. Candidates from Iran and Ecuador would bring the number of countries competing for the role to four. OPEC will discuss the issue at its next meeting 2:50 AM from Reuters Africa Read more »

• U.S. ambassador arrives in Ecuador

  have resumed diplomatic relations. American ambassador Adam Namm arrived in Ecuador’s capital Quito on Wednesday. The U.S.-Ecuadorean relations have been strained since last April when former U.S. ambassador to Ecuador Hither Hodges was declared persona non 1:53 AM from Voice of Russia Read more »

• Ecuador plaintiffs try to collect from Chevron

  resulted from bribery. The ruling stems from contamination in Ecuador's Amazon region between 1972 and 1990 by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001. Chevron contends Texaco fully remediated its share of environmental damage before leaving Ecuador in 1992. 5/30/12 from ABC-KVUE Austin Read more »

• Ecuadorians Hit Chevron With $18 Billion Enforcement Action In Canada, says Amazon Defense Coalition

  ten litigation firms in the country by Canadian Lawyer magazine. "I am honored to have been asked by the indigenous people of Ecuador to correct a historic injustice visited upon them by Chevron," said Lenczner, who visited Ecuador and reviewed the extensive 5/30/12 from PR Newswire Read more »

• This Newly Discovered Mushroom Can Eat Plastic, Time to Save the World?

  called pestalotiopsis microspora, and it’s a fungi discovered by a group of Yale researchers on an expedition in Ecuador. Could this mean we’re on track to finally begin the lessening of the Earth’s plastic excess? According to a Yale study and recap from 5/30/12 from Foodbeast  Read more »