Court records show Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, stands to make as much as $40 million in a secret deal to publicly rail against oil drilling in Ecuador, according to an eye-popping report published Sunday in the New York Post. (more)
An Ecuadorian judge on Monday ordered Chevron Corp. to pay $8.6 billion to clean up oil pollution in the country’s rain forest in what is believed to be the largest-ever judgment in an environmental case. (more)
Some folks are alleging that Tehran and Caracas have inked a deal that will establish a joint ballistic missile base in Venezuela, where Iranian missiles, potentially capable of reaching the United States, would be stationed. (more)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Tuesday dismissed an offer of residency that a lower level official made to the embattled founder of the online whistle-blower WikiLeaks. (more)
An Ecuadorean government official has invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website to live and lecture in the country, days after the site caused an international uproar by releasing additional sensitive U.S. documents. (more)
Reporting from Quito, Ecuador, and Bogota, — (more)
QUITO — Authorities seized a large, home-built submarine in a marsh near the Colombian border that was designed to carry as much as 12 tons of cocaine to Mexico, Ecuador’s Antinarcotics Police chief Joel Loaiza said Tuesday. (more)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said Sunday. (more)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NTN24 in Quito, Ecuador on June 8 that the Obama administration is planning to bring a lawsuit against Arizona over its recently passed anti-illegal immigration law. (more)
A drunken Bronx man mowed down nine pedestrians, including a 20-month-old child, as they left a soccer game at the new Meadowlands Stadium late Friday night, authorities said. (more)
Ministers of energy from across the Western Hemisphere will descend upon Washington this week. While they may be able to catch the cherry blossoms, their principal reason for visiting is not tourism. Instead, they have been invited to Washington by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to forge a new chapter in energy cooperation and collaboration in our hemisphere. (more)
Over the course of good years and bad, the countries of Latin America have recently been taking diverging paths to very different futures. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month — yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher. (more)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — It appears that high tides in Ecuador have been tossing a lot more than seaweed onto the shore: Hundreds of bathers have scooped up what look like U.S. coins, as well as rings, bracelets, necklaces and other silver- and gold-colored jewelry. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Groups accusing Chevron of contaminating a huge swath of rainforest in Ecuador are asking a U.S. court to block the oil company from taking the dispute to international arbitration. (more)
