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Paytoo® expands its presence in Latin America through an alliance with XY Prepago - This will provide a unique telecommunication and mobile payment solution in Ecuador. Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) October 17, 2011 XY Prepago (Mobile Solutions) and Paytoo® (Universal Mobile Services) reached an agreement that will allow the joint provision of telecommunications services and mobile wallet from any mobile phone in Ecuador and the world. The agreement was ratified in Miami by...
Lobbyists and P.R. Firms Attack Ecuador to Evade $18 Billion Judgment As Chevron Lawyers Suffer Setbacks in Courts Around the World WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Chevron is paying U.S. lobbyists and public relations firms millions of dollars to foment open conflict with Ecuador's government as part of a global strategy to evade paying an $18.2 billion court judgment for environmental contamination, according to public spending records and legal documents. Chevron's...
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LAN Airlines, South America's premier airline, has just surprised patrons of New York restaurant Nuela with tickets to the region. Moments ago, close to 200 unsuspecting diners were presented with vouchers that can be redeemed for one roundtrip ticket to such thrilling destinations as Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. The airline is celebrating the launch of its "Only in South America" campaign, a multi-year effort to promote leisure travel to the...
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Comptroller who runs New York's $146 billion state pension fund has gone public to urge Chevron to "spare the company's battered reputation" by settling an environmental lawsuit spanning two decades in the Ecuadorian rainforest. New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversees the pension fund that controls Chevron stock worth approximately $800 million, has taken the unusual step of publishing an article urging the oil giant to...
NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- US$ 52.9 million in public and private sector donations in support of Ecuador's unique Yasuni-ITT conservation project were announced Friday, September 23, at the United Nations in front of an audience that included international dignitaries, business leaders, environmentalists, and members of Ecuador's indigenous Huaorani tribe. The high-level meeting was co-hosted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Ecuadorian President Rafael...
WEST ROXBURY, Mass., Sept. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- For the tenth consecutive year, friends and family of Dr. Cynthia Lucero and advocates for Latino mental health will "finish the race" for Lucero, the young psychologist from Ecuador, who died during the 2002 Boston marathon, days before she was to earn her doctorate at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. (MSPP) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101216/MM18901LOGO ) Joined by faculty and students of MSPP and the...
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With only four months remaining to raise $100 million, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today that it is now accepting donations of all sizes to its trust fund to preserve in perpetuity a vital section of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park in the Amazon Rainforest, under which lie nearly 1 billion barrels of oil. The effort, part of Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative, seeks to channel global support to save this unique piece of land...
Chevron continues to provide courts misleading information from State Department reports, says Amazon Defense Coalition NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report based on U.S. government data and independent surveys demonstrates conclusively that Ecuador's court system ranks better than most of its neighbors in Latin America and provides impartial tribunals to litigants, clearly undermining Chevron's claims that an $18 billion judgment against it for environmental...
Award Fails to Offset Chevron's $18 Billion Liability in Ecuador NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An international arbitration tribunal this week slashed a Chevron damage claim against Ecuador in a series of commercial disputes by 87%, granting the oil giant a paltry 13 cents on the dollar and failing to offset the company's $18 billion liability in a separate environmental case in the South American nation, according to an analysis of the decision. Chevron General Counsel...
Oil Giant Shelves RICO Case and Now Plans to Call Experts To Assert Massive Pollution In Ecuador Is Not Its Problem, Say Legal Papers NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ecuadorian indigenous residents are accusing a New York federal judge of improperly allowing Chevron to re-litigate an eight-year pollution trial that it lost to help bail out the company from a potential $18 billion clean-up liability, according to legal papers filed in recent days in New York federal...
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The spectacled bear or the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) is native to South America. This bear is locally known as jukumari, ukuko, or ucumari and is the only remaining species of short-faced bear existing today, making it the sole member of the sub-family Tremarctinae. The range of the spectacled bear includes western Venezuela, eastern Panama, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, northwestern Argentina, and western Bolivia. It is only found in the Andes Mountains, but it is thought to be an...
The Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) was occasionally previously known as Man O’War or man of War, a reflection of its rakish lines, aerial piracy of other birds, and speed. It’s widespread in the tropical Atlantic, breeding colonially in the trees in Florida, the Caribbean and the Cape Verde Islands. In addition, it breeds along the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to Ecuador including the Galapagos Islands, as well. It is known as a vagrant as far from its...
The Crested Eagle, (Morphnus guianensis), is a species of bird of prey found from Guatemala through Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia to north Argentina. In Brazil, this species has suffered greatly due to habitat destruction and is mostly found only in the Amazon basin in that region. In Ecuador it is mainly found in the Eastern Andean mountains. It is the only member of its...
The Red-throated Caracara, (Ibycter americanus), is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is the only member of its genus Ibycter. It is sometimes incorrectly placed in the Daptrius genus with the Black Caracara. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The habitats of this social bird are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests...
The Tawny-faced Quail (Rhynchortyx cinctus) is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is the only bird in its genus. It is found throughout Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its habitat includes subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountain forests. Image Caption: Artistic Depiction of Male Tawny-faced Quail. Credit: Wikipedia (public domain)
