Word: ecuador
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...think again. In recent months, as left-wing, anti-U.S. candidates in Peru and Mexico lost presidential races, the Bush Administration had reason to feel that perhaps the region's so-called "pink revolution" was ebbing like a low Caribbean tide. But this Sunday's presidential election in Ecuador may well raise it again: the likely winner is Rafael Correa, a fervent anti-yanqui nationalist and Chavez ally...
...addition to her domestic volunteer work, Badaracco spent her summers in Ecuador and Bolivia, studied abroad in Chile her junior year, and taught English the year after college in Manaus, Brazil...
...most, it was simply a poignant moment in June's World Cup. Scoring his team's third goal to seal a victory over Costa Rica, Ecuador's Ivan Kaviedes pulled out a Spider-Man mask from his shorts, donned it and danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company...
...lept from less than $10 per barrel to a record $70-plus today. So Ch?vez is using the occasion of hosting a major OPEC meeting this week to trumpet the new mojo he's helped give OPEC - as well as to lobby to bring oil-producing neighbors like Ecuador into OPEC. "This OPEC meeting holds a lot of meaning for us," says Ch?vez's Energy Minister, Rafael Ram?rez. "It's a celebration of the realization of our policies...
...develop the countries where they are from,” he says.THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOMEDe Beausset inherits his sense of social justice from his parents, who first went to Guatemala in order to help develop its economy. The couple moved to the country from Ecuador while they were pregnant with De Beausset—his dad is from Taiwan and his mother is American. “People have the education but there are no opportunities for work,” says De Beausset’s father, Alexander M. De Beausset...