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Ecuador's president Rafael Correa said March 3, 2008 that a deal to release political prisoners — including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before the March 1, 2008 Colombian raid into his country.
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Ecuador's and president
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.
Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in 2008 had given the order not to approve a debt interest payment.
On May 13, 1830, the day of Ecuador's breaking away from Gran Colombia, he was named supreme chief of the new country, and then on August 14, 1830, he was named provisional president.
On February 9, however, Arteaga, who had insisted as vice-president she should become president, was sworn in instead as Ecuador's first female president.
One of Palacio's first proposals made as president was to hold a Constitutional Assembly to amend Ecuador's 1998 Constitution.
Until 2004, it was owned by Fernando Aspiazu who used to be president of Banco del Progreso, Ecuador's second largest bank that was closed in march, 1999.
Ecuador's and Rafael
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador March 2, 2008.
In December 2008, Rafael Correa, President of the Republic of Ecuador, declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate odious debt, based on the argument that it was contracted by corrupt and despotic prior regimes.
Ecuador's and March
On 1 March 2008, the Colombian military attacked a FARC-EP camp inside Ecuador's territory as part of a targeted killing directed at Raúl Reyes.
On March 1, 2008, the Colombian military attacked a FARC-EP camp inside Ecuador's territory, resulting in the death of over 20 people, with at least 17 of them being FARC-EP guerillas.
Ecuador's and 3
These factors highlighted the Government of Ecuador's unsustainable economic policy mix of large fiscal deficits and expansionary money policy and resulted in an 7. 3 % contraction of GDP, annual year-on-year inflation of 52. 2 %, and a 65 % devaluation of the national currency in 1999.
It reached the peak of its importance in the first years of Ecuador's independence ; Cuenca achieved its independence on November 3, 1820.
Ecuador's and 2008
On July 26, 2008 Ecuador's Foreign Ministry formally notified the U. S. embassy that the U. S. lease on the base would not be renewed.
Ecuador's and political
Outside observers noted that, however unpopular, Hurtado deserved credit for keeping Ecuador in good standing with the international financial community and for consolidating Ecuador's democratic political system under extremely difficult conditions.
Ecuador's political parties have historically been small, loose organizations that depended more on populist, often charismatic, leaders to retain support than on programs or ideology.
Although Ecuador's political elite is highly factionalized along regional, ideological, and personal lines, a strong desire for consensus on major issues often leads to compromise.
In 1944, he was appointed as Ecuador's Ambassador to the U. S. In 1948, after forming a liberal political group in Ecuador, he was elected President of Ecuador.
It was Ecuador's largest political party, having won 35 % of the seats in the 1998 elections to the Congreso Nacional.
Ecuador's and including
Of the possible places given serious consideration, including Ecuador's Galápagos Islands, Bikini offered the most remote location with a large protected anchorage, suitable weather, and a small, easily moved population.
Oilbirds have been reported in various other places along the Andean mountain chain, including near Ecuador's Cueva de los Tayos and in Brazil: they are known to dwell as far south as the Carrasco National Park in Bolivia.
Velasco Ibarra traveled through several Latin American countries, including Peru, and restored Ecuador's global image.
Outside of Puerto Rico, he has won major titles in Latin America including Panama's Revolution X-Treme Wrestling, Ecuador's Wrestling Alliance Revolution and the Dominican Republic's Dominican Wrestling Entertainment.
It revolved around whether Ecuador's territory extended beyond the Andes mountain range to the Marañon ( Amazon ) river, including the Amazonian basin.
In 1996, CONAIE reversed its stand on elections and played a major role in the formation of Pachakutik ( Pluri-National Pachakutik United Movement-New Country ), an electoral coalition of indigenous and non-indigenous social movements including CONFEUNASSC-CNC, Ecuador's largest campesino federation.
La Puntilla is known as the home of many of the rich and powerful of Guayaquil, including banana magnate and several-time presidential candidate Álvaro Noboa, Ecuador's richest man.
A year later he moved on to one of Ecuador's biggest clubs in Guayaquil, Emelec, and had two stellar seasons, including two championships with the club, in one of them he scored the championship goal with a free kick he executed.
Ecuador's and former
Ecuador's and Colombian
For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.
Further adding to Ecuador's problems, now Colombian authorities also recognized Peru's territorial aspirations as legitimate.
Ecuador's and .
Ecuador's cities gradually fell into ruins, and by 1790 the elite was reduced to poverty, selling haciendas and jewelry in order to subsist.
Ecuador's economic woes were, no doubt, compounded by the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 by King Charles III of Spain.
The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.
The next 15 years constituted one of the most turbulent periods in Ecuador's century and a half as a nation.
Between 1852 and 1890, Ecuador's exports grew in value from slightly more than US $ 1 million to nearly US $ 10 million.
The OCP will double Ecuador's oil transport capacity, but Ecuador will need to attract additional foreign investment to realize the full economic potential of the added capacity.
Ecuador's economy is the eighth largest in Latin America and experienced an average growth of 4. 6 % between 2000 and 2006.
Ecuador's military history dates far back to its first attempt to secure freedom from Spain in 1811.
Ecuador's principal foreign-policy objectives have traditionally included defense of its territory from both external aggression and internal subversion as well as support for the objectives of the UN and the OAS.
Although Ecuador's foreign relations were traditionally centered on the USA, Ecuador's membership in the OPEC in the 1970s and 1980s allowed Ecuadorian leaders to exercise somewhat greater foreign policy autonomy.
Ecuador's foreign policy goals under the Borja government in the late 1980s were more diversified than those of the Febres Cordero administration, which closely identified with the United States.
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