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Military convoys of heavily-armed soldiers are rumbling through the streets of the Ecuadorian port town of Esmeraldas. The trucks carry more than 100 soldiers wearing bullet-proof vests, trying to ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Esmeraldas: An Ecuador Province Gripped by Drug Conflict
For the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas on the Pacific side of the Colombia border, 2019 began with a warning that the horrors of the past year were no aberration. January started with a series of ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Ecuador launches tender for Esmeraldas refinery renovation
QUITO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Ecuador on Monday launched an international tender to find a new operator ready to invest in the modernizing and operating of Esmeraldas, the country's largest refinery, which ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Colombian and Mexican Cartels Pick Sides in Ecuador’s Drug War
The route from Colombia to Ecuador to Mexico is a mainstay of the global cocaine trade. Rival factions in all three countries are teaming up, which may be good for business but is leading to spiraling ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Ecuador to tender new fuel, sulfur units at Esmeraldas refinery
Oct 12 (Reuters) - Ecuador plans to issue a tender early next year to find a firm willing to build and operate two processing units at its state-run Esmeraldas refinery, an expansion that would reduce ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Ecuador to launch tender for Esmeraldas refinery renovation on Sept. 21
QUITO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Ecuador plans to launch a tender on Sept. 21 to chose a company willing to renovate state-run oil company Petroecuador's 110,000 barrel-per-day Esmeraldas refinery, the ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Ecuador seeks strategic partner for Esmeraldas refinery upgrade
Ecuador’s state-owned Petroecuador is seeking proposals from companies interested in becoming a strategic partner in the rehabilitation, modernization, and integral operation of its 110,000-b/d ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Community farming helps tribe without frontiers survive in Ecuador
ESMERALDAS, Ecuador, September 15 (UNHCR) - The Epera have never really understood or recognized the formal border between Colombia and Ecuador. They are an indigenous people who have always lived in ...
News Ecuador » Esmeraldas: Ecuador battles spreading oil slick, residents without water
Ecuador battled a spreading oil slick Tuesday that has reached several rivers after a spill left thousands without drinking water and triggered the declaration of an environmental emergency. The spill ...