Associated Press An Ecuadorean television station owner is seeking asylum in the United States following the confiscation of his business, a U.S. official said Wednesday. The State Department is reviewing the asylum request of...
“Venezuela represents the more dynamizer initiative of integration and union processes of Latin American and Caribbean countries in this right moment, not only because its energy, but its energetic policy and leadership”, the...
BRUSSELS — The rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages who had been held for years by FARC guerrillas marks more than a turning point in Colombia's long war against its drug-running, Marxist guerrillas. It also...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Ecuadorean counterpart signed a contract on Tuesday to jointly build an oil refinery in Ecuador. Chavez and his close ally, President Rafael Correa, said the 300,000-barrel-a-day...
QUITO, Ecuador, July 15 (UPI) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that Colombia's recent successful effort to free 15 hostages was more luck than the result of "good planning." Correa said the outcome of the recent...
The president of Ecuador's top electoral court said Tuesday that a referendum on the country's new constitution will be held on Sept. 28. Supreme Electoral Tribunal President Jorge Acosta said the vote on the constitution —...
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, stressed that in this world of imperialism, neocolonialism, imperialist and capitalist hegemony, unity is essential to build our motherlands, with the...
It has been a surprise for some, and for others the confirmation of an attitude, the statements made by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who said that he will not renew diplomatic relations with the government of...
After a series of setbacks, leftist President Hugo Chávez welcomed his conservative nemesis – Colombia's Álvaro Uribe – to a reconcilatory meeting on Friday. For their first face-to-face encounter since a diplomatic crisis...