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WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Chevron, Big Oil, Corporate America, Andy Rooney, Media, Cancer, 60 Minutes, Oil Companies, Green News

Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.

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Alvaro Noboa, Ecuadorian Businessman, Politician Accused By NY Model Of Sexual Assault

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

A New York-based model has accused an Ecuadorian billionaire businessman and politician of luring her to Ecuador and forcing her to have sex with him,...

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Chevron Holds a Grudge, but the US Government Won't Budge.

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Free Trade, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Ecuador, Chevron Human Rights, Green News

Chevron is fighting tooth and nail to save themselves from being held accountable for 3 billion barrels of spilled oil and the nearly 1,000 open pits they left behind in Ecuador.

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Remittance Pittance for Ecuadoreans

NYCity News Service | NYCity News Service | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Cuenca-Ecuador, Ecuador, Home News

Rosa Martinez used to stroll to the local money transfer office in Corona every week to send $200 to her family in Cuenca, Ecuador. She still goes to ...

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The Uprising in the Amazon Is More Urgent Than Iran's: It Will Determine the Future of the Planet

Johann Hari | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Amazon Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Oil Companies, Oli Companies Amazon, Ecuador, Amazon, World News

Will we allow a small number of rich people to make a short-term profit from seizing and burning resources, at the expense of our collective ability to survive?

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More Lipstick On Chevron's Pig

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Oil, Misinformation, Media, Chevron, Cnn, Ecuador, Media News

Sooner of later the neighbors will smell that tremendous mountain of decaying garbage Chevron's been hiding in the backyard.

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Newly Discovered Salamander Looks Like 'E.T.'

treehugger.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, Ecuador, Salamander, Green News

So it's not exactly adorable, but it's pretty amazing looking. Recently discovered on an expedition through Ecuador by Conservation International, the...

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Where in Chicago is Ecuador?

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 07.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ecuador, Ecuadorian Food in Chicago, Ecuadorians in Chicago, Chicago News

I'll be traveling to the "Center of the World" with no itinerary and no reservations--just a rumpled piece of paper my aunt gave with some long-lost uncle's phone number.

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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Women On Waves Abortion Provider Sparks Controversy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Contributors | Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Video, Abortion Laws, Rebecca Gomperts, Abortion Rights, Foreign Affairs, Women on Waves, Anti-Abortion, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, International Waters, Advocacy, Poland, Portugal, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland, World News

* Scroll down for the video. The recent assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has brought attention to the dangerous front lines of th...

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Cuba Readmitted To OAS "Without Conditions"

AP | NESTOR IKEDA | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Organization of American States, Cuba Organization of American States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras, Hillary Clinton, Cuba Oas, Oas Cuba, Oas Summit, Cuba, Oas, Honduras Oas Cuba June 3, Cuba Readmitted to Oas, Cuba Readmitted, Honduras Coup, World News

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — The Organization of American States voted by acclamation on Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist...

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The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars

Levi Novey | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Rainforests, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Deforestation, Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon, Ecuador, Peru, Electric Cars, Neil Young, Guyana, Brazil, Green News

Since the Amazon Rainforest is so important, we must ask ourselves: "Why have we (or at least the media) become so bored of discussing the Amazon and deforestation?"

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Chevron Is Learning Its Lesson

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Texaco, Chevron, Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Ecuador, Green News

Chevron is learning the hard way that hiding a potential $27 billion dollar liability is just as impossible as hiding 18 billion gallons of toxic waste.

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Hillary Clinton Recognizes Multi-Polar World, Failures of U.S. Latin America Policy

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Ecuador, Argentina, US Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Evo Morales, Bolivia, World News

For the first time we have an acknowledgment of our failure in Venezuela.

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Ecuadorians Sue Chevron For Dumping Oil (VIDEO)

60 Minutes | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Chevron, Oil, Environment, Pollution, Green News

"60 Minutes'" Scott Pelley went on another environmental adventure this week, this time to South America. Texaco -- now owned by Chevron -- made trou...

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Worst Job in the World: Defending Chevron

Michael Brune | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Chevron, Ecuador, Oil, Climate Change, Rainforests, Oil Companies, Amazon, Green News

An unlikely transnational coalition is putting Chevron on the defensive for exploiting the Ecuadorian people.

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Colombia may play host to relocated U.S. military hub

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Colombia, Ecuador, Home News

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa decided not to renew an agreement allowing the U.S. to use an air base in Manta. After Ecuadorian Preside...

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Ecuador Election Makes Correa One Of Latin America's Most Successful Politicians

Council on Hemispheric Affairs | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Correa Election, Correa Reelection, Latin America, Ecuador, Foreign Affairs, Rafael Correa, Advocacy, World News

Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, was re-elected yesterday with an impressive 51.7 percent of the vote, in a large field, to serve another term as ...

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Ecuador's Rafael Correa, A Chavez Ally, Likely To Tighten Grip On Power In Election

miamiherald.com | TYLER BRIDGES and STEPHAN KUEFFNER | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Correa Election, Rafael Correa, Latin America, Ecuador, Ecuador Correa, Foreign Affairs, Ecuador Election, Quito-Ecuador, World News

QUITO, Ecuador -- President Rafael Correa is poised to win reelection on Sunday, quite a feat in a politically turbulent country that has run through ...

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President Obama and the Summit of the Americas

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Americas Summit, Mexico, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, 5th Summit of the Americas, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, World News

Obama would do well to remember Ronald Reagan's comment on returning from his first trip to South America as President: "These Latin American countries are all very different from each other."

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World's Rarest Shark Caught, Then Eaten

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.09.2009 | Home

Read More: The Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Philippines, Ecuador, Australia, Indonesia, Megamouth Shark, Mexico, Brazil, Senegal, Japan, Home News

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Do You Know Which Countries Hold America's National Debt?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreign Holding of U.S. Debt, Russia, U.S Treasury Bonds, Japan, National Debt, China, Qatar, Islamic Republic of Iran, Oman, Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Politics News

While Treasury doesn't breakdown the oil producing states which hold American debt (together they are in third place), that group includes quite a few pariah nations.

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Pacifico Colombiano: Hot Sounds from Colombia's Violence-Plagued Pacific Coast

Modiba | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Ecuador, Bogota, Pacifico, Columbia, Farc, Salsa, African Music, Music, Pacifico Colombiano, World News

This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...

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U.S. Protests Expulsions Of Diplomats From Ecuador

CNN | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Mark Sullivan, u.s. Embassy Ecuador, Ambassador to Ecuador, Ecuador, U.S. Embassy, State Department, World News

The State Department called the expulsion of the second U.S. diplomat from Ecuador in just over a week "unjustified," rejecting charges the diplomats ...

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Latin America's Populist Revolutions Driven -- And Written -- By Spanish Scholars

Washingtonpost.com | Joshua Partlow | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Referendum Venezuela, Venezuela, Ecuador, Latin America, Bolivia, Hugo Chavez Venezuela Referendum, Venzuela Referendum, European Legal Scholars Latin America, Roberto Viciano Pastor, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions,...

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