Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), speaks of the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor meeting to bring a new harmony into the world. Don Alverto invites us all to trust the universal human intuition to bring greater harmony into our lives, and to... » read this article

“We're crazy for water,” chanted about a thousand campesinos as they marched through the streets of downtown Cuenca in southern Ecuador on Monday. The march, called for by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), was part of a nation-wide mobilization against a new water law. It included intermittent... » read this article

Editor's Note: September 12, 2009. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) interviewed President Rafael Correa on a range of issues and advancements in Ecuador and more broadly, in Latin America. Goodman's questions are subtitled in Spanish and President Correa's answers are interpreted into English. Correa is very good at answering semantically biased/loaded... » read this article

Chevron's Video Transcripts Raise Questions About Oil Giant's Misconduct to Delay $27 billion Environmental Trial In Ecuador Department of Justice Asked to Focus on Chevron Quito, Ecuador (September 1, 2009) – In a maneuver reminiscent of Richard Nixon's infamous "dirty tricks" operations, Chevron has posted a series of grainy videos... » read this article

QUITO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa was sworn in for a second term on Monday vowing to deepen his socialist "revolution" but he did not spell out how he plans to jump-start the country's slow economy. Mapping out his vision for a new term, Correa, 46, said... » read this article

For background on this article, read: Peru: 60 dead as Garcia Regime sends police to attack indigenous road blockade   Imagine the scandal and headlines if Hugo Chávez closed a radio station in Venezuela just days after it spoke out against the government's position on a hot topic? What kind... » read this article

Oil Giant Fails to Disclose That It Paid for "News" Video Narrated by Former CNN Correspondent Gene Randall  Amazon Defense Coalition Washington, D.C. (May 3, 2009) –To promote a misinformation campaign about its role in the oil contamination of a pristine area of the rainforest in Ecuador, Chevron recently produced... » read this article

A few months ago I ran into an economist who was formerly head of the Bolivian Central Bank in the La Paz airport. He had been reading Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist whom the media has nicknamed "Dr Doom", and was predicting a very gloomy economic future for... » read this article

Canada's Nortec Ventures Corp., a mining company based in Vancouver, announced this month its intention of buying Copper Mesa Mining Corporation's Ecuadorian assets. Three Intag residents recently filed a lawsuit against Copper Mesa (formerly  Ascendant Copper), as well as the Toronto Stock Exchange, for their alleged  responsibility of ongoing violence... » read this article

5 December 2008 With South American heads of state scheduled to assemble in Bahia, Brazil later this month for a meeting of the recently created UNASUL (Union of South American Nations), relations between the continent’s so-called left governments, which were at the center of the alliance’s creation, appear fraught by... » read this article

It is unusual for the Washington Post to give voice to the Latin American people as it has done in the article below regarding the non-renewal of the 30 year contract to host the U.S. Air Force at Manta, Ecuador. At the same time, the Post repeats Washington's tired old excuse for the Manta Air... » read this article

Recent remarks by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on the civil war in Colombia and Ecuador's decision not to join the Alternativa Bolivariana de las Americas (ALBA) solidarity based cooperation initiative shows progressive leaders are taking stock on Latin American integration. Ecuador, ALBA and the FARC by Toni Solo   Recent... » read this article

May 4, 2008 New U.S. military threat U.S. imperialism is ramping up its military threats in Latin America and the Caribbean. On April 24 the U.S. Navy announced the re-establishment of the U.S. Fourth Fleet to increase and coordinate the U.S. military presence there. As a sign of its aggressive... » read this article

The assertion by Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, that intelligence services in his country were infiltrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was a jolt for the Ecuadoran armed forces with yet to be seen consequences. But, above all, it was evidence that the influence of the Southern Command,... » read this article

First published on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 MANTA, Ecuador, Mar 21 (IPS) - Military and diplomatic sources see a link between the Manta air base, operated by the United States in Ecuadorean territory, and this month's bombing raid by Colombia on a FARC guerrilla camp in Ecuador. The U.S. air... » read this article

In Ecuador, it is clear that inflation for the first quarter of this year is going to surpass the rate projected by the government for all of 2008, according to statistics from the country's Central Bank. The principal causes of the inflationary surge are the financial crisis gripping Wall Street... » read this article

I remember when Rafael Correa visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us... » read this article

It is a well kept secret that Bechtel won a contract to privatize the water in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, just months after the massive citizen protests that threw Bechtel out of Bolivia. In October 2000, a local Bechtel subsidiary, Interagua, signed a 30-year concession contract to run the water... » read this article

Editor's Note: Following is the Prologue from an upcoming, as yet untitled, book about Ecuador by James Petras.     Prologue Ecuador today faces great opportunities for a basic social transformation and also grave threats from imperial networks.   In the recent period, popular social mobilization of urban and rural popular... » read this article