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NEW YORK – EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: An illegal immigrant Ecuadorian is in NYPD custody after a broad daylight sex attack in which police said a machete-wielding man approached two 13-year-olds, one a boy and one a girl, tied them together by the wrists and raped the girl at a popular park in Queens, according to sources.

Ecuador’s government is cutting off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s communications outside the nation’s London embassy. Officials announced Wednesday they were taking the measure in response to Assange’s recent activity on social media. As part of an agreement between Assange and the Ecuadorean government, he is not permitted to send any messages that could interfere with the South American nation’s relations with other countries. Assange has been living in Ecuador’s embassy for more than five years. Ecuador gave Assange asylum after he sought refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden for investigation of sex-related claims. Sweden dropped the case,...

Dunamis Power is yours my children just speak what you need or declare what it is My Spirit is to manifest before you and it shall be for as you have overcome the world it now sits at your feet as it does for me for we are one and I walk hand in hand with you as you do my will alone . Let My Spirit of Holiness lead your days now for the body and Bride of Christ are coming together now in a redeeming way in that all that is being done now in this hour is...

Pope ends first leg of his three-nation South American tour with impassioned plea to safeguard the environmentDelivered message in Ecuador, which has one of the world's most diverse ecosystems but is also reliant on oil He said: 'As stewards of these riches, we have an obligation toward society and toward future generations' (...) 'As stewards of these riches which we have received, we have an obligation toward society as a whole and toward future generations,' Francis said. 'We cannot bequeath this heritage to them without proper care for the environment, without a sense of gratuitousness born of our contemplation...

THE Eternal Love of The Father Virtue upon virtue , line upon line of My Word is truly a River of Life as you walk in My Love and not your own for as your Father in Heaven I AM with you always even onto forever but it is My desire you carry My Heart and not your own for your love can be injured But My Love for you ,in you and through you is an unstoppable Truth that sheds off the lies of the enemy and before which all condemnation Must Fall! For My Love is Sovereign and...

Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday an announcement would be made within half an hour in Ecuador about former CIA contractor Edward Snowden. He was speaking to reporters in Singapore.

Friday, 6/11/10 NOTE: The recent deaths of two Mexican citizens, one at the San Ysidro, CA, Port of Entry, the other between El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, have resulted in ongoing investigations and ample coverage by the media on both sides of the border. The M3 Report will not repeat the fast moving and abundant claims and counter claims, and obviously biased and critical articles and opinion columns. A Mexican congressman, Ricardo Lopez Pescador, is now demanding that the “homicidal agents of the Border Patrol” must be extradited to Mexico and put in the hands of Mexican judges....

Since Ecuador eliminated requirements for entry visas for all foreigners entering their country, growth in the arrival of Chinese from China has jumped from an average of twenty a month to over one thousand a month with goals of entering the United States illegally Saturday 12/13/08 El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 12/13/08 "Ecuador, stopping point in the traffic of undocumented Chinese" When officials entered a humble abode in the middle of Guayaquil in early August they found 28 Chinese citizens, the majority of them young women, crammed into two rooms awaiting travel to the United States in search of the American...

After pulling ahead in the presidential campaign by focusing on centrist issues, Ecuador presidential candidate Rafael Correa said he would govern from the populist left if he were to win yesterday's election. Mr. Correa, a 43-year-old economist, held a jubilant news conference claiming that exit polls showed he had won by a margin that gave him wide latitude to push a radical agenda. He vowed to renegotiate payments on the country's $16 billion of foreign debt and to scrap the constitution -- proposals that he barely mentioned during the final weeks of his campaign. He also reiterated his longtime opposition...

The populist political tide that seemed to be sweeping through Latin America earlier this year is sputtering. Although disappointment with free-market reforms still runs deep through the region, voters have been choosing presidential candidates who tap into a more powerful force: economic stability. Across Latin America, inflation has been on a steady decline for the past decade, and has dropped to the low single digits for the first time in decades... Economic growth, while far from spectacular, has been solid for the past five years. With that stability, more working-class voters have been able to buy homes, take out loans...

The UN atomic watchdog adopted by vote Saturday an EU proposal that sets Iran up for referral to the UN Security Council, a spokesman said, in what would be a sharp escalation of the West's face-off with the Islamic Republic. The vote was by 22-1, with 12 abstentions on the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA spokesman Peter Rickwood told reporters.

QUITO, Ecuador Apr 16, 2005 — Facing growing street protests demanding his ouster, President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency Friday night in the capital and dissolved the Supreme Court in an effort to resolve an escalating political crisis. The state of emergency placed the military in charge of maintaining public order. Gutierrez, with the military high command standing behind him, announced in a televised address to the nation that under the authority provided by the Constitution, he was dismissing "the judges of the current Supreme Court designated by Congress" in December. "The measure … was taken because Congress...

There is revolution in the air in South America once again, with thousands of Marxist guerrillas operating in Colombia, and signs in Peru of a resurgence of the Shining Path, a militant Maoist group which seeks to install a peasant revolutionary authority. The Shining Path has never been that friendly to journalists, so trying to make contact is very difficult. In Lima I met members of left-wing parties that have traditionally had links with the Shining Path, and put out the word that I wanted to contact the guerrillas who in the early 1990s brought Peru to its knees. When...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- A senior leader of neighboring Colombia's main rebel group was arrested in Ecuador, the nation's police chief said Saturday, announcing the capture of the highest-ranking official of the leftist guerrilla army during nearly four decades of war. A Colombian official said the United States played a role in the capture. Ecuadorean Police Chief Jorge Poveda confirmed that Simon Trinidad was detained late Friday. He did not give any details about what Trinidad was doing in Ecuador or how long he had been there. Trinidad is a member of the general staff of the 16,000-member Revolutionary Armed...

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida and Middle East terrorists are operating near Ecuador's borders with Peru and Colombia, and Ecuador needs U.S. help to combat them, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Thursday. "We have got in the tri-border area a bit of a problem with al-Qaida itself and some Hezbollah elements," he told the House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee. "We do need cooperation." In addition, U.S. efforts to help Colombia combat drug traffickers -- and perhaps insurgents -- might hurt Ecuador if the traffickers and rebels seek to escape there, he said. President Bush's request for $27 billion in...

Emergency State in the area of the volcano El Reventador entered in eruption Monday November 04, 2002 - 4h28 GMT QUITO, Nov. 3 (AFP) - the emergency state was issued in the area of the volcano El Reventador, the North-East of Ecuador, was entered in eruption Sunday, and whose falls of ashes caused the suspension of the air traffic with Quito, but without making any victim. This alarm clock of El Reventador ("the destructor"), which culminates to 3.562 m of altitude, to 180 km in the North-East of the capital, caused a release of ashes and gas until an...