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A woman votes during general elections in Cangahua, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Amidst the new coronavirus pandemic Ecuadoreans went to the polls in a first round presidential and legislative election. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Divided Ecuador heads to presidential runoff ballot in April

By GONZALO SOLANO and REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

Soldiers guard a polling place a day ahead of the general elections, in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Ecuador is heading towards general elections Sunday in which 16 candidates are vying for president amid a fragmented political landscape marred by economic turmoil and the bleak impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Leftist leads in early returns for Ecuador presidential vote

By GONZALO SOLANO and REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 5, 2018 file photo, Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa gives an interview at his family home near Brussels, Belgium. An Ecuadorian court found Correa guilty of corruption on April 7, 2020, and sentenced him to eight years in prison, further sullying the legacy of one of the nation’s most enduring and polemic political leaders. (Mark Carlson/AP Photo, File)

Court finds ex-Ecuador president guilty of corruption

By GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

3 Ecuador opposition lawmakers seek refuge at Mexico embassy

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One of the protesters shakes hands with a security officer as they celebrate the announcement that the government cancelled an austerity package that triggered violent protests, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and leaders of the country's indigenous peoples have struck a deal to cancel the disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left several people dead. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuador crisis weakens president, strengthens indigenous

By GONZALO SOLANO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Former Ecuador President Rafael Correa answered questions during an interview with Associated Press in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Correa is dismissing as &quot;nonsense&quot; allegations that he is plotting with Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro to destabilize the current Ecuador government amid violent unrest sparked by fuel price hikes. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ex-Ecuador president wants new vote, denies planning coup

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Supporters of former president Rafael Correa protest outside the Supreme Court as the hearing to decide whether or not to call former President Correa to trial for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of politician Fernando Balda in Colombia in 2012, continues in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ex-Ecuador president ordered to stand trial in kidnap case

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FILE - In this May 22, 2017 file photo, Ecuador's then President Rafael Correa waves to supporters from a government palace balcony before attending his last Changing of Guard ceremony, in Quito, Ecuador. Former President Correa is asking for international protection after a judge ordered he be jailed for missing a court date. Correa appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Friday, July 20, for protection, saying he’s in grave danger from the criminal prosecution. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Ecuador’s ex-president seeks protection from arrest order

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy prior to speaking, in London, Friday May 19, 2017. Assange has won his battle against extradition to Sweden, which wanted to question him about a rape allegation. He has spent nearly five years inside the Embassy of Ecuador in London to avoid being sent to Sweden, which announced Friday that the investigation has been discontinued. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Julian Assange’s asylum in Ecuadoran embassy in doubt after six years

By Frederic Puglie — Special to The Washington Times

Alianza PAIS's presidential candidate Lenin Moreno (left) and his running mate Jorge Glas smile at the end of the day of the presidential election on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Julian Assange, Ecuador wait for fate after election

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Associated Press)

Ecuador restricts Julian Assange’s internet access after Hillary Clinton campaign WikiLeaks

By Joshua Goodman and Raphael Satter - Associated Press

Rescue workers stand behind rubble after an earthquake in Portoviejo, Ecuador, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast on Saturday night. The magnitude-7.8 quake killed hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Carlos Sacoto)

In quake-devastated Ecuador, loss piles up amid the rubble

By Allen Panchana - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2006, file photo, a US military plane lands at the US base airport in Manta, Ecuador. Shortly after first taking officein 2007, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa purged Ecuador's military of officers deemed to have close relations with U.S. counterparts. He also ended an agreement with Washington that allowed U.S. drug interdiction flights to be based at the Ecuadorean airfield in Manta. Ecuador has ordered, on April 2014, that all 20 Defense Department employees in the U.S. Embassy’s military group to leave the country by month’s end, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Ecuador orders US military group to leave

By GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gestures at the end of a meeting with the foreign press at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Correa, who was elected in January 2007, said the U.S. government and his are going through a tense relationship, clarifying that he personally likes the U.S. where he earned two university degrees. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Correa wants some US military officials to leave

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** FILE ** Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, and Bolivia's President Evo Morales wave during a welcome ceremony for Correa in Ivirgarzama, Bolivia, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Ecuador’s Socialist president: American exceptionalism sounds like Nazi rhetoric

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa sings during his weekly live broadcast, "Enlace Ciudadano," or "Citizen Link," in Manta, Ecuador, on Saturday, June 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ecuador abandons ‘no drill’ plan after enviros fail to pay preservation cash

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa sings during his weekly live broadcast, "Enlace Ciudadano," or "Citizen Link," in Manta, Ecuador, on Saturday, June 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ecuador president: NSA leaker Edward Snowden can’t leave Moscow

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press