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  Ecuadorian Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ecuadorians know were the people come from because of the way they are dressed.
The ecuadorian tradition is that in the New Year, they make dummy that is stuffed with old clothing and then is burned to celebrate the ending of the old year and the coming of the New Year.
Ecuadorians also dress themselves as clowns to recieve the coming of the New Year in a happy and enjoyable way.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01280/ECUADOR/Culture.htm   (338 words)

  
  List of Ecuadorians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lorena Bobbit - Famous Ecuadorian who on the night of June 23, 1993, cut off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife as he lay sleeping in their Manassas, Virginia, home.
Adrienne Eliza Bailon- member of singing group 3LW with Kiely Williams and Jessica Benson.
Adrienne Bailon is of Ecuadorian and Puertorican decent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Ecuadorians   (158 words)

  
 Ecuador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The matches of the Ecuadorian national football team are the most watched sports events in the country.
There is considerable interest in tennis in the middle- and upper classes in the Ecuadorian society, and several Ecuadorian professional players have attained considerable international fame, including Francisco Segura, Andrés Gomez and, in the 1990s, Nicolas Lapentti.
Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (1999) written and directed by Ecuadorian Sebastián Cordero is an Ecuadorian film about an 18 year quiteño whose cousin, a thief from the more violent coastal city of Guayaquil, embroils all those around him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecuadorian   (2866 words)

  
 United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Ecuador
During the period covered by this report, Ecuadorian governments have been at pains to rigorously enforce the laws and other provisions guaranteeing respect for the human rights of persons subject to their jurisdiction and to eliminate procedures contrary to those enactments.
The Ecuadorian Constitution categorically stipulates, in article 20, that the Ecuadorian State "guarantees to all individuals, male and female, who are subject to its jurisdiction, free and effective exercise and enjoyment of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights enunciated in the declarations, covenants, agreements and other international instruments in force".
Ecuadorian Governments have conducted intensive nationwide campaigns to reduce illiteracy; these have included radio programmes produced by the Latin American Association for Education by Radio, whose headquarters are in Quito.
www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CCPR.C.84.Add.6.En?Opendocument   (10314 words)

  
 Ecuador economic crisis Banco Progreso insolvent bank failure
We are both Ecuadorian and foreign in origin and keep close to the happenings of this small country the size of the U.S. state of Nevada.
Ecuadorian Congress sessions all too often fall prey to fist fights which police and military guards have to break up, chair fights, throwing things, souting out of turn, (its OK to shout and scream when its your turn) and temper tantrums not unlike emotionally disturbed children or street kids in a brawl.
Supervise the Ecuadorian economy and government rigidly by a G7 appointed team of people who have lived or are living in Ecuador and from the outside as well for diversity of thought.
www.angelfire.com /id/Ecuador/congress.html   (10569 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Ecuador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Moreover, massive demonstrations of civil unrest has started a vicious circle in which presidents who are unwilling or unable to make the necessary moves towards popular policies are ousted; with all the economic and governmental fallout that such a drastic change entails.
Ecuadorian presidential elections often run under populist principles, such social empowerment, drastically reducing inequality, and the idea of changing the economic and social status quo.
Although Ecuadorians were heavily concentrated in the mountainous central highland region a few decades ago, today's population is divided about equally between that area and the coastal lowlands.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/ecuador   (2774 words)

  
 WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
According to a report presented to the Interior Ministry in 2001 by eleven Ecuadorian human rights, environmental and ethnic NGOs,[12] 2,560 hectares of cultivated land belonging to small-scale mestizo and indigenous farmers living on the border have been affected.
One-thousand small-scale Ecuadorian farmers are awaiting a response to an amparo, similar to a habeas corpus petition, presented to the government which calls for the suspension of fumigation and respect for a ten-kilometer-deep no-spray zone in
The situation on the border is further complicated by the gradual increase in the presence of refugees and displaced Colombians in Ecuadorian territory.
www.wola.org /publications/ddhr_ecuador_update_3.htm   (3682 words)

  
 Rachel's Peace Corps Adventures in Ecuador
Ecuadorians are used to being able to talk or beg their way into something they want, crowding instead of lining up and chaos.
And having to explain to Ecuadorian mothers that the American doctors weren’t going to see their child at the same time as the mother just because the child didn’t have a separate little yellow ticket.
I think all in all, it was a really good week-a few Ecuadorians got quality medical attention and their health needs addressed and a few Americans got to experience a little of the Ecuadorian health system and the needs of these folks.
home.earthlink.net /~rachelhoward/2005.06.01_arch.html   (1686 words)

  
 CorpWatch : ECUADOR: Ecuadorians Enlisting for Iraq as Mercenaries
Democratic Left (ID) deputy Guillermo Haro presented a list of Ecuadorians who are ready to leave for Iraq as mercenaries.
After listing the names of those nationals, many of them professionals, Haro recalled there is a contingent of about 30,000 mercenaries in Iraq who receive substantial salaries.
He urged authorities to open an investigation into these denunciations and the possible implication of US soldiers based at the Manta air base, a facility from which regional anti-drug operations are launched.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=12560   (297 words)

  
 Emory Magazine | Autumn 2003
The US’s conflict with Iraq angered many Ecuadorians because it was a war, I’ve heard them say, that didn’t need to happen–it was a war of choice.
Despite their displeasure with America’s actions in Iraq, I’ve encountered many Ecuadorians who are simultaneously attracted to our culture: our movies and our popular music, for example.
Ecuadorians are also quite familiar with a more serious aspect of American society: the economic opportunities that are available inside the US.
www.emory.edu /EMORY_MAGAZINE/autumn2003/letter.html   (653 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
At the end of the list are Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo and Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle with 6% and 7%.
Peruvians and Ecuadorians are the least satisfied with 15% and 18%.
As to economic optimism Chileans and Argentines with a reading of 88% are top of the list, and they are also the most confident about next year.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=3725   (657 words)

  
 NATURE PRESERVES: CAN LAND ETHICS WORK?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At this point the students would be asked to consider the Galapagos National Park, mentioned in the article and established by the Ecuadorian government in 1936.
After all three articles have been read the students should be asked to first work individually and list a variety of impressions.
The format that we envision would be to have students respond to the issues individually and then to discuss them as a class or in small groups.
www.woodrow.org /teachers/biology/institutes/1992/nature_preserves.html   (1359 words)

  
 Send to a Friend - IPS Inter Press Service
In his first year in office, Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutiérrez, who came to power with the backing of the country's powerful indigenous movement and the left, staged an about-face and disappointed his former supporters, according to indigenous leaders and analysts.
One sign of Gutiérrez's realignment was a Jan. 2 joint operation between the Ecuadorian police, the Colombian army, and U.S. intelligence services in which Colombian guerrilla commander Ricardo Palmera, alias Simón Trinidad, was captured in Quito.
In his annual report to Congress Thursday, Gutiérrez said his was a ''government of change.'' Touting his efforts to fight corruption, he said that in Monterrey he handed Bush a list of Ecuadorians accused of corruption who are living in the United States, to ask that they be extradited to Ecuador.
www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=21973   (969 words)

  
 Athens Eco Latino
Every year more than 400,000 Ecuadorians leave the country and if this trend continues over the next two decades, Ecuador could be left with only half of its population.
The Ecuadorian military still hasn't learned to stay away from politics and keep their hands out of industries that have nothing to do with homeland defense.
But the main reason Ecuadorians are expelling themselves from their country is economic.
www.athensecolatino.com /v1n8/ramos.html   (1415 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Coast Guard Team Helps Stricken Tanker
NOAA is helping Ecuadorian officials in plans to control, recover and clean up the spilled oil and efforts to protect affected wildlife, he said.
Westerholm said the Ecuadorian navy, in charge of operations and salvage, is trying to right the vessel.
Westerholm said the Coast Guard could also help the Ecuadorians patch the Jessica to put it in a seaworthy condition for towing to safety or for scuttling farther out at sea.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Jan2001/n01262001_200101262.html   (456 words)

  
 Friday, 01 Oct 2004 | Grist Magazine | Daily Grist | 01 Oct 2004
Park managers lamely point to security as a justification for the towers, leading enviros to wonder how it is that millions of park visitors over the decades have survived in the wilds without wireless access.
Judy Logback believes that the Amazon rainforest ecosystem cannot be effectively preserved unless the rural villagers who populate the forest are involved in the effort.
A new Grist List by Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth.
www.grist.org /news/daily/2004/10/01   (915 words)

  
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The list is intended to facilitate discussion of the broadest possible range of archaeological issues, but especially eager to provide a forum for discussions of technical and computer questions.
For the sake of inclusiveness, the list is defining 'children' as anyone under the age of 18 years, although most of the media to which this list is targeted would be aimed primarily at those under 12.
This list is intended to facilitate communication and collaboration among psychologists throughout the Americas, and to aid the Interamerican Society for Psychology/Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia in its activities.
ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/internexus/ACADLIST.FILE4   (15199 words)

  
 NGOs in Ecuador
What follows is a fairly comprehensive list of some of the nation's most notable NGOs along with links to their web sites (when applicable), a brief description of their work and principle projects, contact information, and information for would-be volunteers.
You can help FUNEDESIN conserve the Ecuadorian Amazon by adopting an acre of rainforest, help them finance sustainable microenterprise by adopting a chocolate tree, or assist in a variety of projects by becoming a volunteer in the Amazon Rainforest.
However, with the escalating downfall of the Ecuadorian economy, La Tola now works extensively with street children and indigenous families who have voluntarily left their homes in the countryside in an attempt to earn money in the streets of Quito, as well.
www.ecuadorexplorer.com /html/ngo_list.html   (2259 words)

  
 Ecuador
Ecuadorians were heavily concentrated in the mountainous central highland region a few decades ago, however, today's population is divided about equally between that area and the coastal lowlands.
Due to an economic crisis in the late 1990s, more than 600,000 Ecuadorians emigrated to the U.S. and Europe from 2000 to 2001.
The 2005 film Crónicas, written and directed by Ecuadorian Sebastián Cordero starring John Leguizamo in his Spanish-language debut, is set and filmed entirely in Ecuador.
www.savage-comedy.com /_Ecuador   (2944 words)

  
 Spanish Summer Session in Ecuador - II
This arrangement affords you an ideal opportunity to learn about Ecuadorian culture through participation in family life and a supportive link to local people, as well as additional language experience through informal use of language in a pleasant setting.
They should advise the family if they will not be "home" for a meal, for example, and in general be sensitive to Ecuadorian ways of thinking and doing things.
A list of suggestions will be sent to you well in advance of departure.
www.lrc.edu /mcl/ecuador/section2.htm   (572 words)

  
 Land that time forgot - Real Estate in the Galapagos Islands
This is something even most Ecuadorians don’t know since various bills have been drafted and approved to exclude foreign investors and developers, BUT, these bills have never been passed into law.
There you sit, overlooking the bay and all the luxurious yachts of the truly rich bobbing at anchor sharing a premium wine or beer with someone very special while the velvety warmth of the night mingles with the rustlings and chirps of wildlife setting in for the night.
For the more adventurous however, there are occasionally opportunities further inland and there is even a small exclusive subdivision underway at Santa Cruz gardens (visit www.santacruzgarden.com for details) although this has been sold out since it was offered to the public.
www.escapeartist.com /OREQ18/Real_Estate_in_the_Galapagos_Islands.html   (1761 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands: Books: Edward J. Larson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In recent years tourism and the attendant influx of Ecuadorians have proved a dubious blessing for the islands' unique ecosystem, which still attracts scientists who travel there to study evolution at work, as well as creation scientists who hope to disprove it.
The irony of it, is that the ecology-loving scientists are the ones that once encouraged the tourism of the islands that have lead to supposed ecological disaster there.
They had some vision of a utopia where people would learn how precious the earth is and work to conserve it, but instead Ecuadorians have siezed the island for economic pipedreams, the residents not caring to preserve every species there to their expense.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465038107?v=glance   (3078 words)

  
 Press Releases: Colombia, How the EU and Canada could work for peace in Colombia
By placing the FARC on their terrorist lists, the EU and Canada have added legitimacy to the Bush administration’s efforts to seek a military solution in Colombia and have contributed to closing the door on any negotiated peace.
By removing the FARC from their terrorist lists, the EU and Canada could begin to work with all sides in the conflict in order to shift the terms of debate away from drugs and terror to the real issues at the root of Colombia’s violence: the country’s gross social and economic inequalities.
By removing the FARC from their terrorist lists, the EU and Canada would raise serious questions about Washington’s militaristic approach in Colombia and open the door for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LTIO-6WDN2E?OpenDocument   (1400 words)

  
 Ecuador Rocks! - Tours Travels foods songs free tourism information culture photos foto map
Peru had an army of 11,681 troops, facing a poorly supplied and badly armed Ecuadorian force of 5,300 soldiers, of which a little over 1,300 were deployed in the southern provinces of the country.
Over the course of the war Peru gained control over all the disputed territory and occupied the Ecuadorian province of (El Oro and some parts of the province of Loja, some 6% of the country), demanding the Ecuadorian government to give up their territorial claims.
The Ecuadorian government declared the contract with the oil giant invalid, being the main cause for the delay in the Free Trade Agreement negotiation talks between the two countries.
www.ecuadorrocks.com   (3962 words)

  
 Beautiful Horizons: April 2005
Ecuadorian President, Lúcio Gutierrez has backed down and has withdrawn the state of emergency decree that he instituted on Friday.
That is exactly what Bucaram has done to the dismay of the overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians.
By the way, I noticed that Nancy Pelosi's name is not on the list, but she had been a member in the past.
www.beautifulhorizons.net /weblog/2005/04   (6744 words)

  
 BIRDCHAT archives -- March 1999, week 1 (#7)
We received permission from the list owners to forward the following information from Mark Lockwood, a member of the TX Rare Birds Comm., who is not on the BirdChat list.
Mark's address is [log in to unmask] Please note new address Art and Hanna Richard Ingram TX [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recently the Ecuadorian government, mainly in partnership with ARCO (an American Company), agreed to begin the construction of another trans-Andean oil pipeline.
A group of Ecuadorians and Americans are trying to preserve a small piece of forest that connects two large preserves.
listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9903a&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=474   (848 words)

  
 Truman Library - Frank W. Fetter Oral History Interview
One of the men I came in touch with there is a person who has since figured quite prominently in Ecuadorian history, Galo Plaza, whose father had been President of Ecuador at an earlier date and, like more than one South American President, had spent some of his time in exile.
It was a statement which I heard many times, and I think it was substantially correct, that you could recognize if an Ecuadorian woman or young man belonged to the real aristocracy because he or she spoke Spanish with a notable French accent.
One of the great problems that I discussed with him (great from his point of view) before we went down was where could he get a portable pasteurizer to prepare the milk for his children.
www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/fetterfw.htm   (10599 words)

  
 News Volume List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
On the table will be a class-action suit on behalf of some 30,000 Ecuadorians, claiming $1.5 billion from Texaco for some of the worst pollution ever committed in the Amazon.
Compounded to the destruction wrought by oil development over the past 30 years, Ecuador now has to contend with the destabilizing effects of the war in Colombia, Ecuador's neighbor to the north.
'On the Record' explains why the Ecuadorian government has tried to solve the country's economic crisis by imposing austerity measures on the poor and trying to produce more oil and suggests better alternatives.
www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_vol_18.html   (429 words)

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