MiningWatch Canada and the Ecuadorian organisation DECOIN (Ecological Defence and Conservation of Intag – Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica del Intag) today released documentation showing that Ascendant Copper’s news release dated December 19, 2006, contains inaccuracies […]
The United Nations’ Human Rights body is investigating allegations that supporters of Canada’s Ascendant Copper framed local critic Carlos Zorrilla. Zorrilla, a member of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN), a local environmental NGO, […]
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The Ecuadorian government recalled its ambassador to Colombia over the resumption of aerial coca fumigation along the countries’ shared border. The two countries reached an agreement last December to suspend spraying because of the Ecuadorian […]
Source: IRC Americas La reciente Cumbre de la Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones (CSN) realizada en Cochabamba, dejó un sabor amargo. La mayor parte de los presidentes de la región optaron por un tipo de integración […]
Source: WW 4 Report When Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s richest man, won enough votes during the October 15 first round of the presidential election to advance into the final runoff on November 26, rural and urban […]
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