Ecuador: No Dial Tone, No Contract

Seeded on Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:51 PM EST (upsidedownworld.org)

The possible cancellation of the mobile telephone operating licence granted by Ecuador to Porta Celular, a company indirectly owned by Mexican multi-millionaire Carlos Slim, could set a precedent in Latin America.

ecuador, politics, cell-phones, tax-evasion, cellular-phones, rafael-correa, correa, porta

Oil in Ecuador: Exploitation of Women and Natural Resources

Seeded on Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:45 PM EST (upsidedownworld.org)

Swedish construction company Skanska states the company "generates employment" when it actually deprives the local population the possibility to hunt, fish, and cultivate crops on its own terms.

oil, colombia, ecuador, prostitution, world-news, skanska, underaged-prostitution, lago-agrio

A green light to transform Ecuador

Seeded on Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:32 PM EST (Progreso Weekly)

By electing a Constituent Assembly on Sept. 30, Ecuadoreans gave President Rafael Correa an ample majority, with which he has carte blanche to change the rules of the political-economic game.

ecuador, right, left, world-news, socialism, correa

Ecuador Protests Treatment of President at US Airport

Seeded on Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:19 PM EST (CNET News.com)

Ecuador has lodged a formal protest to the United States regarding the treatment last week of President Rafael Correa by U.S. immigration officials.

immigration, ecuador, miami-international-airport, world-news, opec, rafael-correa, correa, us-immigration

Chicago H.S. Students Face Expulsion Following Antiwar Sit-In

Seeded on Mon Nov 5, 2007 11:23 AM EST (antiauthoritarian.net)

Berwyn, IL - November 2, 2007. Over 70 students participated in a sit-in against the Iraq War on All Saint's Day, Thursday, November 1st. It began third hour when dozens of students gathered quietly in the lunchroom at Morton West High School and refused to leave.

education, iraq-war, morton-west-antiwar-students, ben-nowakowski, morton-west-high-school

Belichick gets under Godfrey's skin

Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:02 AM EDT (nbcsports.com)

Inflamed by the 52-7 whipping given to his team by the New England Patriots, Washington Redskin Randall Godfrey tore into Patriots head coach Bill Belichick after Sunday's game.

sports, washington-redskins, randall-godfrey, tom-brady, bill-belicheck, bill-belicheck-is-a-fat-bitch

Ecuador wants military base in Miami

Seeded on Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:27 PM EDT (Reuters)

Seeded by djd (Clipped by omanofass)

Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

united-states, world-news, rafael-correa, base-in-miami

Ecuador to rejoin OPEC

Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 5:10 PM EDT (The Globe and Mai)

Ecuador plans to officially rejoin OPEC at the cartel's next meeting in November as part of President Rafael Correa's promise to revive its flagging crude industry, Oil Minister Galo Chiriboga said Monday.

oil, venezuela, petroleum, hugo-chavez, world-news, opec, rafael-correa

Scenes from the class struggle in Ecuador

Seeded on Sat Oct 6, 2007 12:08 PM EDT (Brandeis University Hoot)

Most of what we hear about the left in Latin America takes one of two forms: either American leaders denouncing Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist president whose Bolivarian Revolution has been the centerpiece of Latin America's recent leftist renaissance, or a general denunc …

oil, mining, latin-america, petroleum, hugo-chavez, world-news, occidental-petroleum, rafael-correa, ascendant-cooper

Ecuador's president decrees government to take 99 percent of windfall oil profits

Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 1:13 PM EDT (Santa Barbara News-Press)

Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa decreed on Thursday that the government will take 99 percent of windfall oil profits that had previously been split with foreign oil companies.

oil, petroleum, profits, world-news

A Triumphant Advance in Ecuador

Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 1:07 PM EDT (globalresearch.ca)

Today Ecuador is undergoing a triumphant advance. Of the three anti-imperialist governments in South America that are now pursuing a process of change, the regime in Ecuador has the broadest support.

venezuela, bolivia, ecuador, world-news, rafael-correa, correa

Global Consensus, Not Global Conquest

Seeded on Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:12 AM EDT (Truthdig)

As world leaders gather this week to address the United Nations General Assembly, President Bushs refusal to negotiate on the two key issues of our daywar and global warminghas been stunning. And the media havent helped.

bush, iraq, iran, bolivia, global-warming, greenspan, ahmadinejad, evo-morales, world-news

Ecuador: Clash of old and new

Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 6:55 PM EDT (Upsidedownworld.org)

Denouncing the congress as "rubbish" and a "national disgrace", left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called on the upcoming constituent assembly, for which there will be elections held on September 30, to dissolve the body, which is widely viewed as corrupt.

ecuador, world-news, rafael-correa, ricardo-patino, popular-democracy

Grim rea-purr: The cat that can predict death

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:30 PM EDT (the Mail online)

The footsteps down the corridor of the Steere House Nursing And Rehabilitation Centre are light but purposeful as Oscar makes his way towards the end of the hallway and stops outside room 310.

rhode-island, odd-news, cats, grim-reaper

In rare turnabout, student accuses teacher of plagiarism

Seeded on Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:14 PM EDT (The St. Paul Pioneer Press)

Mary Swenson struggled to finish her doctorate at Capella University. So when she found Sharon Bender, it seemed a saving grace. A Capella business professor, Bender took an interest in Swenson's management research, even suggesting they team up on a book, Swenson said.

education, plagiarism, online-degree, phd, capella-university, organizational-management

Three Cheers for Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel; They Are What Democracy and Elections Are All About

Seeded on Thu Jun 7, 2007 10:38 PM EDT (EIN News: Colombia News)

Ron Paul has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than a generation without creating much of a ripple. Until very recently, when he decided to run for president, few outside of his Texas congressional district had ever heard his name.

elections, democrats, politics, republicans, libertarians, dennis-kucinich, mike-gravel, tom-tancredo, ron-paul

Information War in the Jungle

Seeded on Fri Jun 1, 2007 9:15 AM EDT (upsidedownworld.org)

"This is a war on information. And it is the oil company itself that has taught us to fight it," said Heriberto Gualinga, who is a kind of 'communications boss' for the Sarayaku-indians in the Ecuadorian jungle.

technology, oil, ecuador, amazon, petroleum, cgc-ecuador, everything-cgc

For Impostor Student at Stanford, Cardinal Rule Was Just Showing Up

Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 9:23 AM EDT (The Chronicle for Higher Education)

A California student with her heart set on Stanford seems to have taken literally Woody Allen's famous aphorism that "80 percent of success is just showing up."

college, stanford, education, impostor, weird-news, exams, azia-kim

Chavez Eliminates Entrance Exams for Public Universities

Seeded on Tue May 29, 2007 9:20 AM EDT (The Chronicle for Higher Education)

Venezuela will eliminate its national college aptitude test, as well as public universities' own entrance examinations, President Hugo Chávez announced last week in a move intended to open university access to students from poor families.

venezuela, chavez, sat, hugo-chavez, world-news, exams, aptitude

Andean nations protest FIFA high-altitude ban

Seeded on Mon May 28, 2007 10:14 PM EDT (The Daily Star (UK))

"As far as I can remember, no one's ever died during a soccer match at high altitude," Ecuador assistant manager Armando Osma said in a statement from its soccer association.

football, sports, colombia, soccer, peru, bolivia, world-cup, ecuador, argentina, evo-morales

Ecuador Seeks Aid Not to Exploit Amazon Oil

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2007 7:35 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (IPS) - A novel proposal by Ecuador is testing world leaders' commitment to fight global warming and preserve the biodiversity of the Earth.

oil, ecuador, indians, oil-reserves, amazon, world-bank, petroleum, indigenous, world-news, biodiversity

"Web site" baffles Internet terrorism trial judge

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2007 6:35 PM EDT (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was struggling to cope with basic terms like "Web site" in the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet.

odd-news, weird

Ecuador's Correa, the continent's leader with most support

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT (Mercopress)

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa is the Latinamerican leader with most support in the continent while his counterpart in Guatemala Oscar Berger ranks in the opposite end, according to a report published by the Mexican public opinion consultants Mitofsky.

colombia, venezuela, bolivia, ecuador, usa, evo-morales, hugo-chavez, george-bush, world-news, alvaro-uribe

Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 7:55 PM EDT (The New York Times)

PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.

technology, 3d-printing, plastics, solid-printing

Venezuela Seizes Last Private Oil Fields

Tue May 1, 2007 9:37 AM EDT

By Natalie Obiko Pearson, Associate Press Writer (Clipped by omanofass)

President Hugo Chavez's government took over Venezuela's last privately run oil fields Tuesday, intensifying a power struggle with international companies over the world's largest known single petroleum deposit.

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