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Ecuador

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Archaeology Programs Ecuador - Educational Archaeology Tours & Trips Ecuador|

Compact and diverse, Ecuador is like a tasting menu for South America. There are Andean mountains, complete with glacial volcanoes. At Otavalo, site of the largest market in South America, Ecuador's numerous indigenous groups come to barter for both crafts and staples. There are Amazonian jungles and charming colonial cities, like cobblestoned Cuenca. Best of all, all these flavours are packed together, so you can be in the jungle in the morning and at the foot of a glacier by the evening. Ecuador also has one gem found nowhere else: the pristine and fragile Galápagos Islands, made famous through the writings of Charles Darwin.|

Pres Rafael Correa says Ecuador cannot yet consider asylum request from Edward J Snowden, and that it is up to Russia to decide what happens to the American fugitive; remarks add to growing sense that Snowden is stuck in geopolitical limbo in a Moscow airport.|

Joe Nocera Op-Ed column examines story of Steven Donziger, attorney who allegedly committed multiple acts of fraud during his two-decade legal battle to force Chevron to clean up environmental mess it left in Ecuador when it pulled out in 1990s; notes while Donziger has denied the charges, his account has inconsistencies and there are several questions he has yet to answer.|

Quito Journal; Ecuador is a favorite of American retirees on a budget; if granted asylum there, NSA leaker Edward J Snowden would likely find life in tiny, beautiful, impoverished country a bit of an adjustment for technology geek addicted to his laptop.|

Pres Rafael Correa of Ecuador withdraws offer to refrain from oil drilling in rain forest if $3.6 billion was donated to trust fund intended to protect nearly 4,000 square miles of Amazon jungle; withdrawal comes after only $13 million was collected worldwide after six years.|

Florida appellate court rules that government of Ecuador has the right to sue a pair of fugitive bankers, Roberto and William Isaias, in courts in the United States to recover $600 million that the government accuses them of having embezzled from Filanbanco.|

Government of Ecuador says that it is prepared to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection; Assange arrived at the embassy on June 19, seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women.|

Ecuadorean Pres Rafael Correa says American Vice Pres Joseph R Biden Jr called him to ask that he not grant asylum to former National Security Agency contractor Edward J Snowden; says he cannot make decision on matter until Snowden is in Ecuador or one of its embassies.|

The French goal-scoring machine sputtered to a halt, but that did not do Ecuador any good as it was eliminated in the 0-0 draw.|

Republic of Ecuador Quito () Republic 13.8 million 276,840 square kilometers; about the size of Colorado Spanish, indigenous languages, especially Quichua, the Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua Total population: 92% 1822|

A list of resources about Ecuador as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|

Pres Rafael Correa of Ecuador withdraws offer to refrain from oil drilling in rain forest if $3.6 billion was donated to trust fund intended to protect nearly 4,000 square miles of Amazon jungle; withdrawal comes after only $13 million was collected worldwide after six years.|

- Napo Wildlife Center is the greatest luxury alternative eco-hotel in the Ecuador Amazon. This ecotourism project include conservation of approximately over 82 miles2 of the most pristine Amazon Rainforest within the Yasuni, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve|

Government of Ecuador says that it is prepared to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection; Assange arrived at the embassy on June 19, seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women.|

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