Leon Febres Cordero is a former president of Ecuador and now mayor of its commercial capital, Guayaquil.
On November 26, a run-off election will take place in Ecuador that will determine who the next President of Ecuador is going to be.
Donziger met with the leftist president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and outtakes from the movie Crude suggest he urged the president to indict the Chevron lawyers.
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That evening, he met with Maria Fernanda Espinoza, Special Envoy of the President of Ecuador and Minister for Cultural and Natural Heritage, and Ricardo Patino, Foreign Minister of Ecuador.
But he went further, forcing Maria Elena off the board and giving control of the company to a group of executives while he ran for president of Ecuador in 1998.
The election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia late in 2005 and the election of Rafael Correa as President of Ecuador late last year have accelerated the formation of a new Latin American axis which might have serious repercussions for the region in general and also for the United States.
In July 2009, the Colombian police found an hour-long video in the computer of a FARC member that confirms that the FARC gave money to the 2006 election campaign of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, another Chavez ally.
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Among the participants which took part in this forum were the President of the Republic of Ecuador, Mr Rafael Correa Delgado and at least 15 Ministers of the region.
In that regard, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has already said that he will not renew the lease of our base at Manta which expires in 2009, from which the majority of our planes leave on drug related missions.
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During Christmas week, the president-elect of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (he is taking the oath of office on January 15, 2007) visited Chavez and upon his return tensions between Ecuador and Colombia increased as Ecuador demanded that Colombia stop fumigations on the coca fields that border with Ecuador.
Like many of President Correa's opponents in Ecuador, Mr Aspiazu accused him of being too close to the radical president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
The socialist countries in Latin America including President Michelle Bachelet of Chile also commended Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, for his victory in the constitutional referendum.
Several leaders did not attend the meeting, including Cuban President Fidel Castro and the presidents of Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Order has collapsed in Haiti, Venezuela is governed by a populist with authoritarian tendencies, Bolivia's next president may be a similar character and the governments of Ecuador and Peru are shaky.
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"While there was some confusion in the media flowing out of Quito yesterday, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has clarified that his country has not invited WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to Ecuador, " the statement read.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet called for the issue to be discussed at a meeting next week of the fledgling Union of South American Nations in Ecuador, whose president cut ties with Colombia after the raid on Reyes' camp.
In May media reports quoted Gustavo Larrea, a government minister and a confidant of President Rafael Correa, as saying that miners in Ecuador would be hit with a strict tax hike that would take away 70% to 80% of revenues.
The visit of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador as well as his meeting with Evo Morales reflects not just a mere Iranian initiative to break its international isolation.
The incident outraged Ecuador's president, but yielded a huge haul of documents from Mr Reyes's computers.
In September Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, expelled managers of Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering company which he accuses of bribery and shoddy construction of a power plant.
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An appeals court in Buenos Aires has convicted ex-President Carlos Menem of illegally selling 6, 500 tonnes of arms to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s.
Before then the ambitious caretaker, who is Ecuador's seventh president in eight years, wants to change many of his country's institutions.
Peru is struggling to regain its footing after President Alberto Fujimori's government collapsed under the weight of corruption last year, while Ecuador is still reeling following a successful military coup.
In late 2006 Ecuador elected a leftist president, Rafael Correa, who is making a career of denouncing oil corporations, banks and Americans.
But Ecuador's President Rafael Correa says the mine will fund development and has rallied crowds of supporters.
He has interviewed controversial figures at odds with the U.S. government including Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist organization, and Ecuador's president Rafael Correa, who railed against the United States in his interview with Assange.
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In Ecuador, relations with the FARC go up to the highest levels of government, including the president, the judiciary and the army.
Ecuador may have a new president, but it is not yet clear whether he is in full charge of the country.
On the other hand, if successful, Pizango and Aidesep would achieve great riches, paving the way for Ollanta Humala to become president, and converting Hugo Chavez into the supreme leader of yet another Latin American nation, in addition to Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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