Ecuador Ecuador is a South American country situated on the equator at the western edge of the continent. Its 283,561 square kilometers (109,483 square miles) includes the Gálapagos Islands. Roughly one-third of its 13.7 million citizens are...

Republic of EcuadorRepública del Ecuador CAPITAL: Quito FLAG: The flag consists of three horizontal stripes, the yellow uppermost stripe being equal to the combined widths of the blue center stripe and the red lower stripe. ANTHEM: Salve, O...

Ecuador is a small country on the northwestern coast of South America. It measures 280,000 square kilometers—roughly the size of Colorado. It is bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the south and east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west....

In January 2000, responding to a series of economic crises, Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad announced plans to replace the nation's currency, the sucre, with U.S. dollars and to privatize many state-owned enterprises. Within weeks, indigenous groups...

Ecuador (IPA: /ˈɛkwədɔər/), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador) is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to...

STRADDLING THE EQUATOR, ECUAdor is both small in size and uniquely endowed with astonishing biological diversity, spectacular mountains, a rich coastline on the Pacific Ocean, and the Galapagos Islands that so fascinated Charles Darwin. With a geographical area similar to that the...

Weinberg, Bill Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 05-14-2003 Nowhere have indigenous movements made their power felt in national politics as in Ecuador. Indians are in the lead of a revolutionary movement in Ecuador that has brought down one government and been instrumental in...

Ecuador's political crisis deepened Friday as the Constitutional Tribunal warned President Rafael Correa that he would be acting illegally if he ignores its upcoming ruling on the constitutionality of a national referendum.Correa said Thursday night that he would not respect any ruling that opposed the...

Ecuador's popular president tightened his hold over all branches of government Tuesday, sending police to prevent the return of opposition lawmakers as his tentative majority in Congress dismissed all nine members of the nation's highest court.The Constitutional Tribunal on Monday ordered the reinstatement of opposition...