The government of Ecuador asked a U.S. court on Friday to intervene in its long-running environmental battle with oil giant Chevron Corp. The federal court filing is tied to a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit taking place in Ecuador that seeks to hold...
Correa said he wanted the talks for the loan to "finish up quickly" but said that if they do not bear fruit, Ecuador "will know how to find the funds to finance Coca Codo". Correa, a US-trained economist, said the...
Chevron Corp. has sued a lawyer who used to represent the plaintiffs in a $27 billion pollution lawsuit against the oil company in Ecuador, hoping to cast doubt on the case. More Business Chevron on Friday filed a complaint for...
Thanksgiving has always been chef Jose Garces' favorite holiday. Devoid of much of the commercialization that surrounds holidays such as Christmas and Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving is, for him, all about family, friends and food...On Sunday, Garces, 37, was named winner...
10/16/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT Because of concerns about climate change, a lot of current environmentalist advocacy — including movies like "An Inconvenient Truth" — concentrates on the dire results of burning fossil fuels.
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink...Moving briskly through a serpentine, stranger-than-fiction narrative that is still unfolding, Joe Berlinger's remarkable documentary recounts an infuriating litany of South American exploitation, back-room glad-handing, and bureaucratic...
Lawyers for the local people, who say their lives have been ruined by Chevron, are making new claims about secret videos that have put the trial on hold. Those videos show the Ecuadorean judge overseeing the $27bn lawsuit in an...
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador - After sixteen years of litigation, the lawsuit against Chevron Corp. is being celebrated among human rights activists and environmentalist. The dignity of native populations around the world is being recognized in a Declaration on the Rights...
León Fébres Cordero, ex ecuadorian president (1984-1988) died on Monday, December 15. He died on a Guayaquil's clinic with lung cancer, at age 77. He was a very close friend to Fidel Castro.
Un calendario muy original empleado para marketing directo Leer Mas Segun cuenta su creador Yurko Gutsulyak la idea era crear un calendario único que al presentarlo se convirtiera en un destacado evento. Junto con esto, es importante exponer la idea...
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