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Ecuador adds 108,000 pay TV subscribers in 3Q 2013
2013-12-19 14:50:46| Digital TV News
Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of September 2013. There were 849 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 741 thousand at the end of June, and up from 454 thousand at the same time in 2012.
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Ecuador Boards the Internet Freedom Train
2013-12-09 18:44:25| TechNewsWorld
Ecuador hosted an Internet freedom forum last week, welcoming guests from the pro-transparency community. The nation's president, Rafael Correa, is also funding a new research project designed to overhaul traditional copyright laws. To that end, the FLOK Society, based at a public university in Quito, is exploring ways to liberate Ecuador's Internet from global intellectual property laws.
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Ecuador Shuts Down Anti-Oil Drilling Environmental Group
2013-12-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Rafael Correa's government has shut down a nonprofit environmental group that opposes Amazon rainforest oil drilling, alleging it was involved in disturbing public order. The closure Wednesday is the first of an advocacy group by Correa's government, which has been criticized as hostile to free expression and has broadened state authority over nonprofits by decree this year. More than a dozen government agents descended unannounced on the Quito offices of the Pachamama Foundation...
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U.S. trial ends over Ecuador pollution judgment against Chevron
2013-11-26 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An attorney for Chevron Corp on Tuesday accused U.S. lawyer Steven Donziger of orchestrating an international criminal conspiracy by using bribery and fraud in Ecuador to secure a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment against the oil company. "It was a scheme so audacious, so bold, that it would make even a Mafia boss blush," lawyer Randy Mastro said during his closing argument before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over the non-jury trial. Lawyers for the defense said Chevron...
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Ecuador: Lawyer Concedes Mistakes in Chevron Case
2013-11-14 04:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For the last month, Chevron has presented a parade of witnesses against Steven R. Donziger, the freelance lawyer who has been suing the company for 20 years over pollution of the Ecuadorean Amazon jungle. One after another, the witnesses, including some of his closest allies and financiers who are now estranged from his cause, have testified that Mr. Donziger committed witness tampering and fraud. To Chevron, the case against Mr. Donziger is nothing less than an effort to uphold the rule of law...
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