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	Dollarization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador’s third region is known as Amazonia or el Oriente; its sizeable oil reserves give it an indispensable role in that part of the economy.
		The popular uprisings across the entire country of Januaruy and February 2001 were an example of the effectiveness of strikes in Ecuador.
		In Ecuador, this included an often steep learning curve in dealing in the new currency, the facilitation of money laundering and counterfeiting within the country’s borders, the emotional reaction to the loss of a revered national symbol, and violent popular protests of the imposition of dollarization’s associated fiscal austerity measures.
	www.geocities.com /w_norton79/dollarization.html (17409 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Other Parties - Ecuador
		The two-party structure began to decline in the early twentieth century as leftist parties emerged and the country experienced a quarter-century of political instability.
		Ecuador had at least four communist and socialist parties.
		The ID became Ecuador's largest party and the voice of a new generation of reformist, professionally trained political leaders.
	www.exploitz.com /Ecuador-Other-Parties-cg.php (549 words)

	Freedom in the World 1998-99: Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopes for political stability returned to Ecuador in 1998, as the country elected as president the respected mayor of the capital city of Quito, Jamil Mahuad.
		However, for several years, Ecuador appeared to be virtually ungovernable due to near-constant gridlock among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, particularly as a result of congressional use of easy and sometimes frivolous votes of censure and impeachment used to block executive initiatives.
		Ecuador is a money-laundering haven and a transshipment point for cocaine passing from neighboring Colombia to the U.S. There are numerous human rights organizations, and, despite occasional acts of intimidation, they report on arbitrary arrests and instances of police brutality.
	www.freedomhouse.org /survey99/country/ecuador.html (974 words)

	Socialism Today - Uprising in Ecuador
		Unfortunately, the mass movement suffered a major setback in January as the leaders of the insurrection stole defeat from the jaws of victory, handing power back to the ruling elite which was on the point of losing it.
		In Ecuador it included an insurrectionary movement that, lacking a clear objective, was unsuccessful because of the absence of a revolutionary socialist party and programme.
		Ecuador's ruling class and its institutions were left suspended in mid-air in the face of the movement.
	www.socialismtoday.org /46/ecuador.html (1473 words)

	A short history of Ecuador
		The area that is now Ecuador, inhabited by Indian tribes, is conquered by the Inca Empire in 1487.
		In 1830 the area that is now Ecuador secedes from Grand Colombia as the State of the South of Colombia, the same year renamed State of Ecuador and in 1835 Republic of Ecuador.
		The first president is the populist Jaime Roldós Aguilera (1979-1981), leader of the Concentración de Fuerzas Populares (Concentration of Popular Forces, CFP), succeded by Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea of the left-of-centre christian-democratic Democracia Popular (Popular Democracy, DP) until 1984.
	www.electionworld.org /history/ecuador.htm (723 words)

	Ecuador - General Information
		Ecuador is divided into 22 provinces: 10 located in the Inter-Andean Region (Sierra), 5 in the Coastal Region (Costa), 6 in the Amazon Region (Región Amazónica) and 1 on the Galapagos Islands (Archipiélago de Colón).
		Ecuador’s continental territory is bordered by Colombia to the North, Peru to the South and East and to the West by the Pacific Ocean.
		Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in South America and despite its small size, it is one of the most geographically, biologically, ethnically and culturally diverse countries in the world.
	www.embajada-ecuador.se /Info.HTM (3815 words)

	Ecuador: Uprising - The struggle continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador, has been devastated during the 1990’s as a consequence of the policies of neo-liberalism.
		Ecuador began the new century with 62% of the population living below the official poverty line and 70% of the work force being unemployed or under employed.
		The Junta that was briefly established had features of a &lsquo;Popular Front’ government - a coalition government with sections of the ruling class that acts as a break on the revolution with the aim of derailing it.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2000/03.html (1614 words)

	Update on Situation in Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their leadership, together with elements of the Armed Forces have declared the institution of a new popular government to be headed by Coronel Lucio Gutierrez, a young mid-level officer in the Armed Forces, together with Antonio Vargas, the President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).
		The military officers have said that their move to take over the government is irreversible and have called on the nation to give them the opportunity to pull this country out of the terrible crisis that has been plaguing it during the last few years.
		Ecuador suffers from serious regional divisions that have intensified during the last few years, if politicians on the coast are able to stir people up there against this new government, then it could result in serious regional conflicts.
	www.coli.uni-sb.de /~pietsch/stop-war/3053220000122142459007dbbb0.html (1090 words)

	Ecuador - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador's largest political parties in terms of congressional representation are Democracia Popular (centre-left), Partido Social Cristiano (centre-right), Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (populist) and Izquierda Democrtica (centre-left).
		Ecuador is principally an agrarian economy, although the oil industry grew rapidly during the 1990s.
		Ecuador is a founding member of the Andean Community and, since 1997, a member of the WTO.
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/ecuador/ecuador_brief2.html (885 words)

	info: ELECTIONS IN ECUADOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador elects on national level a head of state (a president) and a legislature.
		The President of the Republic and his vice-president are elected on one ballot for a four-year term by the people.
		Ecuador has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone; consequently; parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
	www.info-malta.com /Elections_in_Ecuador (223 words)

	Ecuador: the caudillo and the class struggle
		Former army colonel Lucio Gutiérrez was elected as president of Ecuador on November 24, 2002.
		The vote for Gutiérrez also expresses a vision of power of a layer of popular and indigenous leaders that does not follow in an unrestricted way a military caudillo but which sees in the conjuncture a possibility of power expressed in the phrase 'there are possibilities with Lucio'.
		A more acute class confrontation is opening for which the popular movement is not prepared properly, neither in its base nor in its leadership.
	www.grenzeloos.org /artikel/viewartikel.php/id/507.html (1054 words)

	The Politics of Exclusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After a brief period of euphoria which seemed to usher in a new period of social relations and optimistic expectations of increased Indigenous and popular participation in political power, the country's elite reestablished their control and the lower classes were once again marginalized and excluded from political processes.
		In both incidents, popular sectors were on the verge of redefining state power in order to respond to their class interests.
		Ecuador has also been known as a country with highly unstable governments and frequent changes in chief executives and ministerial posts.
	www.yachana.org /research/confs/lasa2000/becker.html (5229 words)

	Ecuador, Country Assessments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador is on the west coast of South America and 283,560 sq km.
		Ecuador is held to be involved in plan Colombia by some commentators because of their permission for the US to expand the US base at Manta.
		Ecuador has been concerned about the fumigation programme itself (the destruction of illegal coca plants by the Colombian anti-narcotics forces) and its effect upon the health of Ecuadorian citizens living near to the border.
	www.ecoi.net /pub/ms45_uk-ecu1001.html (18087 words)

	Ecuador
		Ecuador faced a severe crisis due to the international crisis of external debt and the financial shocks that ensued, and to floods caused by "El Niño" in 82/83.
		Ecuador is a Presidential (as opposed to Parliamentary), Unitary (as opposed to Federal) Republic.
		Ecuador has ratified the Bio-diversity Convention, the Climatic Changes Treaty, the Forest Declaration, and abides by the principles of the Rio Declaration and the programs of Agenda 21, which contain an environmental plan of action to be implemented until the year 2000.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/sam/ecudr.html (10549 words)

	Ecuadorian Studies, September 2001, No. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The instability of the system as a whole, the frequent changes in coalitions that essentially represents a circulation of elites based in Quito and Guayaquil, made manifest the utility of a strong, independent, and unified national coalition of indigenous groups so that their voice could be heard regardless of the particular power brokers.
		In the alternative or popular assembly organized by CONAIE and the CMS and in which Pachakutik was a major player, a significant minority of the participants, including Cáceres, did not want Pachakutik to participate in the officially sanctioned Asamblea Nacional since it would undoubtedly be controlled by entrenched political and economic elites.
		But it is clear that in recent years the majority of Ecuador's population, including indigenous groups, have experienced declines in their standard of living.
	www.yachana.org /ecuatorianistas/journal/1/beck/beck.htm (8310 words)

	Constitutional Changes in Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Ecuador, the Constitutional Assembly summoned by President Fabian Alarcón, has agreed upon a new reform plan under Article 74 of the Constitution (dealing with the election process and the office of the president), which was met with mixed reactions across the country.
		The Assembly will now focus on restructuring Congress, which has 82 members, 70 of which are elected for a two-year term in single or multi-seat constituencies, with the other 12 members elected at-large for a 4-year term by proportional representation.
		Gustavo Terán Acosta of the Democracia Popular (DP), voted against the reform, but were only able to muster 25 out of a possible 70 votes.
	www.coha.org /newsletter/18-03.html (748 words)

	The people prevail
		Ecuador's Congress votes President Lucio Gutierrez out, in response to popular protests against his anti-people policies.
		Ecuador is the fifth biggest producer of oil in Latin America and the second largest exporter of oil to the U.S. from the region.
		Palacio will be dependant on the support of the centre-left "Democracia Popular" Party and the Social-Christian Party, which together have a sizable presence in the Congress.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2210/stories/20050520000305700.htm (1368 words)

	The Politics of Exclusion: Ecuador's Glorious May Revolution of 1944
		After a brief period of euphoria which appeared to be ushering in a new period of social relations with optimistic expectations of increased Indigenous and popular participation in political power, the country's elite reestablished their control.
		In both incidents, popular sectors were on the verge of redefining state power so that it would respond to their class interests.
		It is only through the ability of popular organizations to mobilize their resources that concepts of democracy and citizenship can be expanded, and a more just and egalitarian society can emerge.
	www2.truman.edu /~marc/seminar/becker.html (5055 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Ecuador - Other Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The PSE gave birth to both the Moscow-oriented Ecuadorian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Ecuatoriano--PCE), which broke away in 1928, and the pro-Cuban Revolutionary Socialist Party of Ecuador (Partido Socialista Revolucionario del Ecuador--PSRE), which broke away in 1962.
		The PCE, a legal party, generally has concentrated on enhancing its position within organized labor, student organizations, and the educational bureaucracy; it had little voter appeal.
		Popular Democracy (Democracia Popular--DP), an affiliate of the Christian Democratic International, was founded in 1978 as a coalition of the PDC and the Progressive Conservative Party (Partido Conservador Progresista--PCP) and a breakaway faction of the PC.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/ecuador/66.php (575 words)

	Ecuador - The caudillo and the class struggle
		Ecuador - The caudillo and the class struggle
		8 The vote for Gutiérrez also expresses a vision of power of a layer of popular and indigenous leaders that does not follow in an unrestricted way a military caudillo but which sees in the conjuncture a possibility of power expressed in the phrase ’there are possibilities with Lucio’.
		Corriente Democracia Socialista is the Ecuadorian section of the Fourth International
	www.internationalviewpoint.org /article.php3?id_article=303 (948 words)

	Centro de Medios Independientes - MANIFIESTO ASAMBLEA POPULAR
		La Asamblea Popular Constituyente establecerá un nuevo sistema de control de las actividades del Estado a fin evitar la impunidad y constituirá como veeduría ciudadana obligatoria a la Asamblea Soberana Popular.
		Las Asambleas populares, en las que debe de participar todo el pueblo explotado y oprimido, deben de luchar por crear un doble poder revolucionario, que termine por echar abajo al Estado (instrumento historico de la clase dominante explotadora) y no para "reestructurarlo".
		Asamblea popular significa que el pueblo productor de la riqueza social debe de gestionar toda la vida economica, politca y social, debe de adsministrar directamente, de manera horizontal, para evitar el riesgo de las burocratizaciones y la asamblea, mediante la democracia directa, debe de tomar todas las decisiones.
	ecuador.indymedia.org /es/2005/04/9336.shtml (2893 words)

	Democracia, ajuste y participación social en el estado ecuatoriano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		El Ecuador contemporáneo se caracteriza por una alta conflictividad social y política, al tiempo que por la presencia de un fuerte movimiento social, en cuyo interior el movimiento indígena se revela como su columna vertebral.
		Ahora bien, la democracia como concepto operacional que permite la resolución de conflictos y la regulación social, permitió en el caso ecuatoriano la transición de una época de dictaduras (1973-1979) hacia una reformulación y rediseño en el régimen político que es el que ahora está en cuestionamiento.
		Este régimen que se impuso en la transición hacia la democracia en 1979, apuntaba a una modernización de la clase política, del régimen político y también de la economía.
	icci.nativeweb.org /boletin/49/davalos.html (3269 words)

	Ecuador - Personalist Movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		None of the personalist movements, however, had more than a temporary impact on politics, usually only as long as their leader enjoyed popularity.
		In 1980 a roldosista faction broke away from the CFP and formed People, Change and Democracy (Pueblo, Cambio y Democracia--PCD), which dissolved after the death of its leader Jaime Roldós Aguilera in 1981.
		Often more successful than the moderate FDN was the conservative Popular Alliance (Alianza Popular--AP), usually composed of Conservatives, arnistas (members of ARNE), and MSC members.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3973.html (258 words)

	Books by Ecuador
		Constitucion Politica De La Republica Del Ecuador : Comentarios, Legislacion Conexa, Concordancias, indice Tematico
		Ecuador : Un Pais En Imagenes = a Country in Images
		by Daniel Delaunay, Ecuador, Institut francais d'etudes andines, O.R.S.T.O.M. (Agency : France), Michel Portais
	www.allbookstores.com /browse/Author/Ecuador:3 (230 words)

	Ecuador
		13 May 1830 Part of State of the South of Colombia (Ecuador).
		22 Sep 1830 State of Ecuador (literally "State of the Equator").
		12 Feb 1832 Annexed by Ecuador as a territory.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Ecuador.html (2290 words)

	E-lecciones.net - El Portal Político Iberoamericano - Atlas - Ecuador
		E-lecciones.net - El Portal Político Iberoamericano - Atlas - Ecuador
		En Ecuador hay más de diez partidos políticos.
		En 1990, los partidos más importantes eran: el Partido Social Cristiano (PSC), el Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (PRE), el Movimiento Popular Democrático (MPD), Izquierda Democrática (ID), Partido Conservador-Unidad Nacional y Democracia Popular (DP).
	www.e-lecciones.net /atlas/ecuador/partidos.php (118 words)

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