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Aides: Chavez in tough fight, may miss swearing-in
Somber confidants of President Hugo Chavez say he is going through a difficult recovery after cancer surgery in Cuba, and one close ally is warning ...
Venezuela VP: Hugo Chavez recovering after surgery
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was recovering in Cuba on Tuesday after an operation targeting an aggressive cancer that has defied multiple ...
Scientists: Galapagos tortoise can be revived
Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his ...
Ecuador officials reject donkey as candidate
The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature. At least ...
Rat kill in Galapagos Islands targets 180 million
The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities ...
Chevron sued in Argentina over Ecuadorean spills
Lawyers for Amazonian Indians are seeking the seizure of $2 billion of Chevron Corp.'s assets in Argentina as they try to collect an $18.7 billion ...
Correa taxes bank profits to help poor
President Rafael Correa has long used his bully pulpit to bash bankers as profit-mongers who brought Ecuador and the rest of the world to the edge of ...
In Latin America, incumbents increasingly dominate
After four election wins, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on track to completing at least 20 years in power, and supporters such as street ...
Gaga visits WikiLeaks chief at Ecuadorean Embassy
Ecuador's Embassy in London says WikiLeaks boss and would-be refugee Julian Assange has had a celebrity visitor: Lady Gaga. On Monday the 26-year-old ...
Court won't hear Chevron appeal concerning Ecuador
The Supreme Court is staying out of the fight over efforts by Amazon rain forest residents to collect more than $18 billion from Chevron Corp.
Young Ecuadoreans stage musical sensation
Not long ago, most of the 80 young cast members of one of Ecuador's most successful musicals were barely seen or heard. They are blind, autistic, have ...
Assange: Obama exploiting Arab Spring in campaign
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of seeking to exploit the Arab uprisings for personal political gain, as ...
WikiLeaks' Assange to address UN on asylum bid
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to address a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly via a videolink from his hideout at ...
Chile's Pacific paradise endangered by goats, cats
It's still a natural paradise far out in the Pacific, with thick jungles and stunningly steep and verdant slopes climbing out of the sea. But much of ...
Ecuador's free-press watchdog under assault
Not all journalists are created equal in the eyes of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. To the leftist leader, Australian-born Julian Assange is a ...
Rebel deserter helps free hostage in Colombia
A deserter from a Colombian guerrilla army has led an Ecuadoran hostage to freedom. The rebel, whose name was not released, led Orlando Sigifredo ...
Lawyer to ask if US probing WikiLeaks founder
The lawyer who is coordinating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's legal defense against extradition to Sweden said Wednesday that he will ask U.S.
UK foreign minister, Ecuador VP meet over Assange
The British government says its foreign minister has discussed the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with Ecuadorean Vice President Lenin ...
Ecuador judge rejects extradition for Belarusian
A judge on Ecuador's highest court rejected on Tuesday an extradition request for a former police investigator from Belarus who has been jailed since ...
OAS urges Britain, Ecuador to resolve Assange row
The Organization of American States on Friday urged the governments of Britain and Ecuador to peacefully end a standoff over WikiLeaks founder Julian ...
Photographed doc lays out Assange police tactics
A confidential document photographed by Britain's Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard's simple strategy for dealing with Julian ...
110 families evacuated in Ecuador eruption
Ecuadorean authorities say 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock, ash and ...
Belarus dissident fighting extradition by Ecuador
Less than a year ago, an Ecuadorean judge denied a request to extradite Aliaksandr Barankov to Belarus, the former Soviet bloc nation whose president ...
US: Assange trying to distract from sex case
The Obama administration on Monday accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making "wild assertions" about U.S. persecution to deflect attention ...
Dogs give emotional boost to sick kids in Quito
Every Wednesday, Lancelot and Juci scamper into a special mission: nudging and pawing youngsters into smiles at the only hospital in Ecuador's capital ...