Ecuador president demands lawmakers accept firing
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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ordered 57 lawmakers on Friday to accept a court ruling that fired them, intensifying a power struggle with Congress in the politically unstable Andean country.
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Ecuador protests over aeriel spraying by Colombia, which Bogota say targets drug crops along the border.
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Ecuador's opposition begins impeachment proceedings against President Lucio Gutierrez.
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A top opponent of President Hugo Chavez demanded the release of jailed protesters Wednesday as university students poured into the streets for a third day to protest the removal of a leading opposition TV station from the air.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist vowing to rein in political elites, has won Sunday's presidential run-off with 57 percent of the vote after most ballot boxes were tallied, a top election official said on Tuesday.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Tens of thousands of protesterstook to the streets of Quito on Wednesday to protest what theycall the heavy-handed tactics of President Lucio Gutierrez anddemanded that he reverse his firing of the country's SupremeCourt.
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Lawmakers have called for the dismissal of the head of the Organization of American States' peace mission in Colombia, accusing him of standing by as paramilitary warlords held orgies in a government-granted safe haven set aside for peace talks.
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Ecuador's Congress suspended its session on Thursday after police surrounded it to enforce a court ruling to fire 57 lawmakers in a power struggle between President Rafael Correa and the opposition.
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Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles shot at a crowd of supporters of fired Ecuadorean lawmakers, injuring two people on Tuesday and escalating violence in a feud between Congress and the president, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off for the country's eighth presidency in a decade, three exit polls showed.
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Ecuador's Congress on Tuesday approved holding a referendum on whether to create an assembly to rewrite the constitution, bowing to demands by the new leftist president who is seeking to weaken traditional political parties.
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The nation's feuding leaders vowed Friday to try to solve a political crisis, a day after Congress passed a law restricting the powers of President Enrique Bolanos.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador has fired the popular  director of Galapagos National Park even as environmentalists  criticized authorities for failing to take better care of the  pristine islands.
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A leader of Mexico's largest leftist party led thousands of protesters in a march to the center of this historic city on Sunday, demanding the resignation of the state governor and the withdrawal of thousands of federal police.
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East Timor&#039;s rebel leader has rejected an agreement designed to end days of violence in the tiny nation and demanded the sacking of the country&#039;s embattled prime minister.
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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano shot columns of ash miles into the air on Wednesday, as officials ordered the evacuation of 3,000 villagers living near its slopes.
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Mexico's president-elect is asking electoral officials not to destroy the ballots from the disputed July 2 elections, the leader of his transition team said Monday.