Adios Ecuador - Guayaquil, Ecuador
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Andes, Amazon, Argentina and more - The trip of a lifetime.
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Andes, Amazon, Argentina and more - The trip of a lifetime.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hey everyoneSo it has been a while since I have posted a blog. Sorry about that I have been pretty busy.Lets see. Clay and I took a week off work and took a trip to the mountains with two of the other volunteers. We took a night bus out of Bahia to the biggest city in Ecuador Guayaquil. From there we headed to the mountains. We stopped in a town called Guaranda and had lunch. Already things wer
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Sorry NJ I am moving to Baos.There is so much to say about this past weekend I have to be sort of brief because I need to go to lunch and then do a ton of homework and projects but it was definitely my favorite place in all of Ecuador. I was told Guayaquil is the armpit of the country and after this I will agree even though I love my city. Baos is very tourist oriented not just to gringos
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The ExpoLibro 2008 (Guayaquil Book Fair) recently came to a close, which according to organizers, drew hundreds of thousands of visitors with more than 210 stands. This proves that the reading is not dead, as had been predicted with the arrival of the internet. Interest in literary works is alive in well in Ecuador and during this past week, four authors contributed to the culture and literature of...
Credo,Catholic Journal (Ireland) (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06379b.htm Ecuadorean patriot and statesman; b. at Guayaquil , 24 December, 1821; assassinated at Quito , 6 August, 1875. His father, Gabriel García Gomez, a native of Villaverde, in Old Castile , had been engaged in commerce at Callao before removing to Guayaquil , where he married Dona Mercedes Moreno, the mother of the future Ecuadorean martyr president. Gabriel García...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Barbara and Briget do South America
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Andes, Amazon, Argentina and more - The trip of a lifetime.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Um, no. Just a bunch of oligarchic whiners getting their knicks in a twist again. This time in Quito and Guayaquil. Ecuador’s government has seized two private TV stations in a long-running dispute over debts. Backed by police, officials raided the TV channels in Quito and Guayaquil, and another 193 companies in the same business group were also seized. […] The raids were carried out by officials from...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
HobNob adventres South of the Equator.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Nuestros Reflejos [es] invites all to the Book Fair currently being held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and which she is helping to organize.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Gary's gap year adventures travelling through Central and South America
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Yesterday's seizures of three broadcast media in Quito and Guayaquil were inopportune and unfair to their staff, Reporters Without Borders says. Regardless of the grounds for these measures, the organisation fears they could exacerbate tension between the president and the press in the run-up to a referendum on a proposed new constitution.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Um, no. Just a bunch of oligarchic whiners getting their knicks in a twist again. This time in Quito and Guayaquil. Ecuador's government has seized two private TV stations in a long-running dispute over debts. Backed by police, officials raided the TV channels in Quito and Guayaquil, and another 193 companies in the same business group were also seized.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
TOUR_46. Yes, it's here...
Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Backed by police, officials raided the TV channels in Quito and Guayaquil, and another 193 companies in the same business group were also seized. The dispute is linked to the collapse of banks in the late 1990s and the state's efforts to recover money. The stations' owners said the seizures were "an attack on free speech", while Economy Minister Fausto Ortiz resigned ( full information )/ Las instalaciones...