Word: ecuador
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...came to this country when I was about three years old from Quito, Ecuador, with my younger sister and my mother and father. Coming here was not easy for anyone. My parents came to America with two little girls and with only a small amount of money...
What's to blame for the moral rot? It's not drug dealing or gang wars. In Danbury the vice, according to local officials and longtime residents, is volleyball. Specifically, "ecuavolley," a form of the game so beloved in Ecuador that when Ecuadorians began migrating en masse to this small working-class New England city, they built backyard courts all over town, some big enough to accommodate up to 150 fans and players...
...started innocuously enough when Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazos, 51, chief of Ecuador's joint armed forces command, complained that he had not been informed of a practice alert at the Defense Ministry in Quito. The impetuous Vargas, who is nicknamed "Loco," quickly found himself in a quarrel with the Defense Minister, General Luis Piņeiros Rivera, and the army chief, General Manuel Maria Albuja. Shots were heard inside the ministry. Piņeiros promptly fired Vargas, who in turn charged Piņeiros with accepting a kickback in the purchase of a plane for the national airline. Vargas also alleged...
...companies that are ethical do have some leeway in enforcing standards on the nations they work in. Unocal threatened to leave Burma when it heard reports that the government was using slave labor in the construction of a pipeline. Other firms like Encana Corporation in Ecuador have set aside funds for reforestation in areas near their oil fields. After all, a host government that has been sanctioned by most of the world has little left to lose except the income from investments made by those firms that will deal with them...
...Ousting Ecuador...