Word: ecuadorian
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None of it will happen, though, without strong action from the Ecuadorian government and pressure from scientists and conservationists in the North and South. As Sonoma State University paleontologist Matthew James puts it, "If there's one place in the world where we should draw a line in the sand, it's the Galapagos...
...amount of gold there is incredible,'' former Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose de la Puente Rabdill told reporters last week. But no geological studies of the site have been done. Instead, the skirmishing may have had more to do with domestic politics, as both Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran Ballen used the long-standing border quarrel to bolster their own popularity...
...most recent violence began on Jan. 9, when an Ecuadorian military patrol captured four Peruvian soldiers along the border, in territory that is claimed by Ecuador. Two days later, Ecuadorian soldiers discovered a contingent of a dozen or so Peruvians in the same area. ``As soon as we ordered them to identify themselves, they opened fire. Since that day Peruvians have attacked nine Ecuadorian towns in the area,'' says Duran Ballen. Ecuador responded by mobilizing some 60,000 troops and accusing the Peruvians of attacking with helicopters that the U.S. had donated for drug-suppression programs...
This season's replacement soap opera for the Buttafuocos of Long Island is the Bobbitts of Manassas. There is Lorena Bobbitt, the Ecuadorian-born manicurist who could go to prison for 20 years if she is found guilty of what the lawyers call "malicious wounding." Then there is John Wayne Bobbitt, who, although acquitted of marital sexual assault last week, may never, as they say, be whole again. Despite the bloodletting, the Bobbitts are less Greek tragedy than downmarket War of the Roses. The onetime bouncer and the struggling beautician had been trapped with each other under the same roof...
...ambassador also criticized an Ecuadorian law which makes it illegal to create a new university in Ecuador without the approval of the 17 other universities. "That's stupid. It's not human. We have to change that," he said...