An 18-year-old has been picked up by the Ecuadorean coast guard, after apparently surviving 28 days at sea by drinking rain water and eating raw fish.

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An 18-year-old has been picked up by the Ecuadorean coast guard, after apparently surviving 28 days at sea by drinking rain water and eating raw fish.

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Police officers in Ecuador will be subject to lie detector tests under new anti-corruption measures, the police chief says.

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Ecuador police to take polygraph

Final results in Ecuador’s referendum show President Correa has won backing for his reform programme, including greater control over the media and courts.

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Ecuador President Rafael Correa says he is willing to take a lie detector test to prove he never took money from Colombian rebels to finance his campaign.

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An early count suggests voters have backed Ecuador President Rafael Correa on all 10 reforms proposed in a referendum, the National Election Council says.

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Julian Assange has claimed another victim: Ecuador asked U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges to leave the country following the release of a diplomatic cable by WikiLeaks on Monday. In the cable, Hodges suggests that President Rafael Correa knew about…

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US oil giant Chevron launches a legal appeal against an Ecuadorean court fine of $8.6bn (£5.3bn) for polluting much of the country’s Amazon region.

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Chevron appeals over Amazon fine

Representatives for villagers said they were looking at waging legal battles in more than a dozen countries where Chevron operates, hoping to force it to pay.

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Ecuadoreans Plan to Pursue Chevron in Other Countries

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Chevron Petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I’ve been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn’t lose their shrimp boats; they lost their kids. read more

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Chevron Runs From Judgment in Ecuador

US oil giant Chevron says it will appeal against an Ecuador fine of $8.6bn, amid a decades-long row over pollution in the country’s Amazon region.

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Chevron hits back in Amazon row

The American oil giant Chevron is appealing a judgment made in favor of people in the Ecuadorean Amazon.

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Ecuador Judge Orders Chevron to Pay $9 Billion

A court in Ecuador fines US oil giant Chevron a reported $8bn (£5bn) for polluting much of the country’s Amazon region.

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Amazon pollution: Chevron fined