Ecuador escalates banana battle
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Ecuador steps up its fight against EU import duties on bananas by asking the World Trade Organization to rule on the issue.
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Three more World Cup matches are on tap today as U.S. coach Bruce Arena says he will make some lineup changes for the next game Saturday against Italy. In today&#039;s action, Ecuador faces Costa Rica, England takes on Trinidad and Tobago, and Sweden plays Paraguay.
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President Bush ended up competing for attention with President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela, who called the American visit an act of imperialism, adding, âGringo, go home!â
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Ecuador reached the second round of the World Cup for the first time after beating Costa Rica 3-0 Thursday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Ecuadoran President-elect Rafael Correa said yesterday Colombia's renewed program to fumigate illegal drug crops on the border was a "hostile act," escalating a diplomatic spat between the South American neighbors.
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Daryl Hannah said she planned to meet with Ecuador's president Tuesday to discuss a lawsuit by Indians and settlers against Chevron Corp., a day after she trudged through the jungle to visit the polluted site.
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Ecuador upset Brazil 1-0 Wednesday to send the World Cup champions to their first loss in qualifying for the 2006 tournament, and it cost them the top spot in South America&#39;s World Cup qualifying.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias as head of a company that sells fruit for shipment to the United States and Europe.
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Supporters of Ecuador President  Rafael Correa storm Congress, suspending debate on constitutional reform.
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Ecuador protests over aeriel spraying by Colombia, which Bogota say targets drug crops along the border.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs for the poor battled on Sunday in a tight vote to elect the country's eighth president in a decade.
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Ecuador's opposition parties fail in efforts to begin impeachment proceedings against President Lucio Gutierrez.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries
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Ecuador's president-elect joins a wave of Latin American leaders swept into power opposing the free-market economic policies that are preached by Washington but are hugely unpopular among the region's poor.
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Thereâsa new leader atop the CONMEBOL standings after round 11 of qualifying. Ecuador handed world champions Brazil their first qualifying defeat 1-0 in Quito, and Argentina moved into first with a 3-2 win over Venezuela.
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Ecuador's new leftist government said Thursday that it does not plan to dissolve Congress despite a bitter fight over a push to overhaul the country's charter that led protesters to storm the capitol this week.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Leftist candidate Rafael Correa pulled ahead in a poll on Saturday, hours before voters decide whether to elect him or his conservative rival as Ecuador's eighth president in a decade.