In 1999, the U. S. signed a ten-year agreement with then Ecuadorean President Jamil Mahuad that allowed the U. S. to station up 475 military personnel at Manta, rent-free.

The second best on 2011 All the domestics flight going from the Ecuadorean main land into the Galapagos Islands do make an stop in Guayaquil to refuel and pick up passengers due to its location, is the closest point from Ecuador to the Galapagos Islands

* BBC story on Ecuadorean default

In November of 2011, an Ecuadorean activist group known as Fundacion Causana began a petition on Change. org to entreat the Ecuadorean Minister of Health to close down over 200 " ex-gay clinics " known for starving, abusing, and torturing patients " in an effort to make them straight ".

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

Gutiérrez was prominent in 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état that replaced President Jamil Mahuad for three hours in January 2000.

Although Ecuador began to improve economically in the following months, the government of Noboa came under heavy fire for the continuation of the dollarization policy, its disregard for social problems and other important issues in Ecuadorean politics.

Subsequent protest led to the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état which saw Mahuad's removal from office and the elevation of Vice President Gustavo Noboa to the presidency.

" The Tequila effect " severely affected the Ecuadorean economy ; however, no economic measures were taken due to the scandals in which the former President Duran-Ballen family ( Flores y Miel ) and his Vice-President Dahik ( embezzlement of public funds ) were involved.

Demonstrators entered the National Assembly building and declared, in a move that resembled the coups d ' état endemic to Ecuadorean history, a three-person junta in charge of the country.

The release took place some southwest of Bogotá, near the Ecuadorean border.

" However, water and soil samples taken by an Ecuadorean scientific team after Texaco departed in 1998 found almost half still contained unsafe levels of petroleum hydrocarbons.

The action was brought against Chevron by 30, 000 Ecuadorean people, and is the first time that indigenous people have successfully sued a multinational corporation in the country where the pollution took place.

The Ecuadorean Institute for Geophysics reported a rapid increase in seismic activity, a number of explosions and an ash cloud reaching in height.

* Lagidium ahuacaense: a newly described species of mountain viscacha from the Ecuadorean Andes.

The southern subspecies R. l. aequatorialis is sometimes split as the Ecuadorean Rail Rallus aequatorialis.

* A. c. pichinchae: West Ecuadorean Burrowing Owl – W Ecuador.

The lease was not renewed by the Ecuadorean government.

* Antonio de Montezinos, who in 1644 claimed to have found one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in the Ecuadorean jungles.

The city is referred to as " Cradle of the Three Juans " as it was the birthplace of three notable Ecuadorians: Juan Montalvo, a noted essayist of the 19th century, Juan León Mera, the author of the country's national anthem, and Juan Benigno Vela, a key figure in the Ecuadorean independence movement.

While he told the Ecuadorean authorities of the locations of the bodies and how the sadistic crimes were committed, he showed no feelings of remorse.

All of this was done while expanding the franchise and guaranteeing equal rights under the law to every Ecuadorean.

Today, Beatriz Parra remains the only Ecuadorean vocalist to attain such a high level of achievement in the operatic world.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

In all probability, the council will screen and endorse candidates for the Assembly and for Congress, and then strive to put its full weight behind these pre-primary favorites.

Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.

One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.

Congress then created three overlapping committees to draft the Declaration, a Model Treaty, and the Articles of Confederation.

He went on to plan and execute a major foundational programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which were then in a state of flux and under discussion in Claude Chevalley's seminar ; he outlined his programme in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians.

It is the more remarkable that no incidents are recorded in the period between Marathon and Salamis, since at the time of the Isthmian Congress the war was described as the most important one then being waged in Greece,

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

The 1925 4th Congress had 20 delegates representing 994 members ; then real growth kicked in.

Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.

Nineteen days after his election, Obama's advisers announced that plans to repeal the policy might be delayed until 2010, because Obama " first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus, and then present legislation to Congress.

In the 19th century, the Congress of Vienna reasserted the rights of diplomats ; and they have been largely respected since then, as the European model has spread throughout the world.

Congress, for its part, at first not really wanting any part of the affair, effectively voted to strip and then abandon the forts.

The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place.

The Honduran Congress assumed authority for setting electric prices beginning in 1986 but then became reluctant to increase rates.

Searches of the Library of Congress have failed to find any evidence that these copyrights were then renewed after the 28-year period and, hence, it is likely that these works are now in the public domain.

Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.

As a member of Congress, Madison had doubtless met the widow Todd at social functions in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.

He had met her while serving with the Continental Congress, which then met in New York, the temporary capital of the new nation.

Polk then made this the casus belli, and in a message to Congress on May 11, 1846, he stated that Mexico had " invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.