He faces stiff opposition, especially from the business community, centred in the major Pacific coastal city of Guayaquil.
Large cartels have fragmented, and the resulting smaller gangs are battling each other over turf in the Pacific port city and the surrounding state.
For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.
At the Pacific terminus, Panama City is home to dozens of banks, serving Colombians and Venezuelans with dollar savings as well as Central Americans, and thousands of companies, attracted by its favourable tax treatment of offshore business.
The Hitachi Furyumono is a parade held during the cherry blossom festival each April in Hitachi City on the Pacific coast in the middle of Japan, and once every seven years in May during the Great Festival at the local Kamine Shrine.
This Southern California city has all the Pacific Coast perks: coastal living, sparkling weather, temperate climate, ocean views and golden sandy beaches.
Melbourne ranks as the third most innovative city in the Asia-Pacific because of its superiority in the human talent category.
Before the 1914 opening of the Panama Canal, Valparaiso was an important stopping point for travellers sailing between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, making the city an economic and cultural centre.
People inside and outside the company seem gingerly accepting of Pacific Century, a venture of the city of Beijing's investment arm and a closely held Beijing auto parts company called Tempo Group.
The hurricane warning is in effect for parts of the Pacific coast of Mexico, from the seaport city of Salina Cruz to the resort town of Acapulco.
Nobody bats 1, 000, of course--not even the master, and many of the things Verne predicted have failed to appear, such as the movable 10-square-mile island built by a group of millionaires in Propeller Island (1895): Home to a large city, it moved around the Pacific Ocean on electric power.
So now when natural disasters strike a tsunami strikes a Pacific coast, or an earthquake flattens a city the emergency responders and the media can utilize up-to-the minute images to assess the scale and scope of the damage, target help to victims, and communicate news and information.
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This stuffy attitude has saved the city, together with others along the Pacific coast.
Scottish Enterprise is taking a lead role in the development of Pacific Quay and welcomed Thursday's decision by the city council.
Acapulco, in the mountainous state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific coast, was thought of as a relatively safe city despite rampant violence in the surrounding region.
By 2050, Asia and the Pacific may have 63 percent of its population in the city, which is about where the United States was in 1950.
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Located on a peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture in central Japan, Miura City developed as a military port on the Pacific and a harbour providing shelter to passing ships.
Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific coast, is generally thought of as a relatively safe city despite rampant violence in the surrounding region.
Grassroots media center www.indymedia.org covered it all from the barricades, where Seattle-based www.historylink.org also placed webcams while it exulted in the city reclaiming its Vietnam-era mantle as the Pacific Northwest's protest central.
Victoria Police sent an e-mail to Apple on Monday morning Sydney time, asking it to fix the flaw, but a check on the location on Apple Maps at 10pm Pacific time on Sunday shows the app is still showing the city as incorrectly being in a pocket of land in the middle of the desert park.
The City on the Bay sits on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.
Swire's property portfolio is heavily weighted towards office and retail space in some of the city's prime locations on Hong Kong Island, including Pacific Place and Taikoo Place.
"We may well see Sydney becoming an increasingly global city as it proves attractive to new and expanding business on the Pacific Rim, " the report said.
Instead of looking to the bathroom, the city of Huntington Beach is looking to its most popular attraction, the Pacific Ocean.
Salt Lake City just finished picking up the pieces from the 1991 collapse of Bonneville Pacific, a publicly traded alternative-energy company that, it turned out, was heating up its financial statements.
Then there's America's postwar migration to the West Coast, which ultimately led to the demise of baseball's Pacific Coast League, then an independent entity some 2, 000 miles from the nearest major league city.
The house sits on three lots totaling more than 0.6 acre, making it one of the largest private residential parcels in the city, says the home's owner, Doug Engmann, who is a former chairman of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
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