<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Long Fall in Ecuador: Populist to Pariah]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10416-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10416-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former president Lucio Gutierrez wasn't always the political pariah who this week inspired street riots and a vote by the legislature to overthrow him.]]></description><author> Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecuador's Ousted Leader Awaits Asylum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6718-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6718-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A day after the country's presidency changed hands in the wake of violent street riots and a congressional revolt, relative calm  --  if not a sense of lasting political stability  --  returned Thursday to the capital's rain-soaked streets.]]></description><author> Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecuadoran Congress Ousts President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5002-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5002-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[QUITO, Ecuador, April 20  --  Lawmakers voted to oust President Lucio Gutierrez Wednesday morning after a week of protests and appointed the vice president to replace him. But enraged mobs continued to take to the streets, burning government buildings and beating employees and politicians who tried to flee.]]></description><author> Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio Is Blamed For Unrest In Ecuador]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2940-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2940-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ QUITO, Ecuador, April 19  --  Military police used tear gas and high-pressure water hoses to restrain tens of thousands of protesters Tuesday night during the fiercest confrontation yet between the government and those demanding the ouster of president Lucio Gutierrez.]]></description><author> Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protests Escalate In Ecuador's Capital]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61869-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61869-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  QUITO, Ecuador, April 17  --  Residents of Quito on Sunday hit the streets for the fifth day to demand the resignation of President Lucio Gutierrez over his handling of a crisis with the Supreme Court. Meanwhile,  Congress met in a special session  to determine the constitutionality of a presidential decree regarding the court's makeup.]]></description><author> Steven Dudley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecuadorans Defy Ban on Protests to Demand Leader Quit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59602-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59602-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  QUITO, Ecuador, April 17  --  Ecuador's president called off a state of emergency in the capital on Saturday  --  less than 24 hours after imposing it  --  as thousands of Ecuadorans defied his ban on demonstrations and demanded his resignation.]]></description><author> Monte Hayes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galapagos Can Wait]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59485-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59485-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The dugout canoe glides quietly through the lagoon, the cool, star-studded night sky offering a respite from the Ecuadorian sun. We find our prey quickly. There in the water grasses. David, our guide, flicks on a powerful flashlight that picks out the gleaming orange eyes of two caimans. He quickly cuts the light and we paddle closer for a better look at the alligator-like reptiles. David turns the light on again -- but they are gone.]]></description><author> Ellen Perlman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telecom Firms Hear Call Of Hispanic Market]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17425-2004Jun5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17425-2004Jun5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hispanics spend more of monthly budgets on telecommunications, mostly to stay in touch with their far-flung families. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Yuki Noguchi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian Is Crowned Miss Universe 2004]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8544-2004Jun2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8544-2004Jun2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ QUITO, Ecuador, June 1 -- Australian Jennifer Hawkins won the Miss Universe title Tuesday night in a two-hour pageant watched by television viewers around the world.]]></description><author> Monte Hayes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection Sought for Diplomats' Domestics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55978-2004May25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55978-2004May25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Workers rights groups yesterday called on the U.S. State Department and foreign embassies to hold diplomats accountable for labor and wage abuses against maids and housekeepers they bring to this country as live-in domestic help.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Modern-Day Slavery' Prompts Rescue Efforts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61457-2004May2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61457-2004May2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A growing number of organizations are reaching out to the thousands of mistreated domestic workers transported into the United States each year through fraud or coercion, destined for involuntary servitude.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Ecuador, a Timeout for Tardiness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59816-2003Nov3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59816-2003Nov3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After years of whiling away wasted hours, Ecuadoran businesses and civic groups have launched a campaign to force people accustomed to habitually missing appointments and deadlines to start showing up on time.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Ecuador's Party Of the Indigenous, Back to the Streets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38082-2003Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38082-2003Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the only decoration in the party offices, a small altar is a commentary on how indigenous Ecuadorans view the political priorities of their government and the United States, which they blame for their impoverished condition.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showdown in the Ecuadoran Jungle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2869-2003Oct22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2869-2003Oct22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A trial pitting Indians against a U.S. company could have far-reaching consequences for the environmental movement, U.S. corporations doing business overseas, and the country's disenfranchised poor.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall/Winter Cruising: Galapagos]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40299-2003Oct3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40299-2003Oct3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are expensive, hard to get to...and an eco-adventure of a lifetime.]]></description><author> Jackie Spinner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Case in Ecuador Viewed As Key Pollution Fight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17800-2003May5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17800-2003May5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Legal experts are closely watching a $1 billion lawsuit against a U.S. oil giant, a case that could provide a new way for activists to make multinational firms accountable for environmental impacts.]]></description><author> Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Eases 'Dolphin Safe' Rule]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64059-2003Jan1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64059-2003Jan1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tuna caught by encircling dolphins may be labeled "dolphin safe" if it can be certified that no dolphins were killed or seriously injured during the catch, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Coup Leader Elected in Ecuador]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34372-2002Nov24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34372-2002Nov24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A former coup leader viewed as a crusader against corruption won Ecuador's presidential runoff, defeating a billionaire businessman.]]></description><author> Monte Hayes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illuminated Umbrellas,  Plush Pianos, and You]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7799-2002Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7799-2002Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here they come again -- the holidays! And along with them comes the perennial question: What to buy for everyone? We've been collecting ideas from this season's catalogues, so you may find some answers here.]]></description><author> Trish Carrico</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colombians Extradited on Murder Charges]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32649-2002Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32649-2002Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/southamerica/ecuador/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the first time, the Colombian government will allow the United States to try its citizens for charges unrelated to drug crimes, as two Colombians have been extradited to the U.S. on murder charges.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</author></item></channel></rss>