Sentences with phrase «del ecuador»

Sometimes they're making these trips from Ecuador but a lot of it is these short hops [that security agencies] can't really detect.»

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

Cottonwood Heights, Utah - based Cotopaxi — named after a volcano in Ecuador that Davis frequented as a child growing up in South America — is an outdoor gear and apparel retailer that donates 10 percent of all profits to charitable causes in the developing world.

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In April last year, German police intercepted what they believed to be 847 pounds of cocaine in a shipment of bananas that arrived in Hamburg from Ecuador.

In 2014, we knew where about 80 % to 85 % of the activity was taking place, to include when a go - fast [boat] was leaving Colombia or Ecuador or somewhere in Central America with a shipment ultimately destined for the United States, but on the best of days we could probably put a ship over next to and a plane above maybe 10 % of that 80 % to 85 %.

Following reports of the news in Ecuadorean media on Wednesday, Assange tweeted a photo of himself wearing the jersey of Ecuador's national soccer team.

This is where 82 percent of the world's Cavandish bananas - by far the world's most popular banana variety - are grown, with Ecuador alone supplying over a third of the billion - dollar global export market.

-- Taki Skouras, CEO of Cellairis, a cell phone repair and accessories brand with 500 locations across the U.S. and which has expanded internationally to Canada, Jamaica, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, and Dubai, for a total of more than 600 company - owned and franchise locations

Reuters found an entry for «Julian Paul Assange» in Ecuador's Civil Registry, which only includes Ecuadorean citizens.

On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said Ecuador was exploring mediation to solve the standoff.

Ecuador's Foreign Ministry in a statement said it was seeking to resolve Assange's situation, without making reference to the citizenship issue.

In Ecuador, Panama, Ghana, Nigeria and Thailand, the rate of entrepreneurship among females was higher than that for males.

There are many small - scale businesses around the world — from organic vineyards in Australia to llama knitwear co-operatives in Ecuador — that are changing for the better how business is done.

The Chimú empire once stretched across a huge swath of South America's Pacific coast, including current - day Peru, Ecuador, and Chile.

The US is already outproducing Libya, Qatar, Ecuador and Gabon; in 2017, US companies could ship more oil overseas than those OPEC nation pump out of the ground.

Arresting Assange would also be politically difficult because he is not a U.S. citizen and is currently being protected by the government of Ecuador.

The startup has installed systems in areas of Ecuador, Jordan, Mexico, and the Philippines that lack the infrastructure for drinking water.

Well, because we're in between the mammoth, huge consumer market in [the] United States and the product, the drugs coming from Venezuela, from Colombia, from Ecuador, from Bolivia.

Central American groups, as well as the Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican groups, have previously formed arrangements with gangs in the port city of Liverpool to bring in drugs by sea, typically from Venezuela and Ecuador, according to The Times.

For example, if you're starting your own ice cream company, you'll want to tailor your pitch differently to someone in Antarctica vs. someone in Ecuador.

QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people last month.

In five decades of traveling, I've crossed countries by rickshaw, pedicab, bus, car, minivan, and bush taxi; a handful by train (Italy, Switzerland, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Greece); two by riverboat (Gabon and Germany); Norway by coastal steamer; Gambia and the Amazonian parts of Peru and Ecuador by motorized canoe; and half of Burma by motor scooter.

This may be why YellowPepper has huge American partners in Diner's Club International, Scotiabank and Banco Pichincha, the largest bank in Ecuador.

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speak during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2014.

To harvest the leaf, which required making connections with farmers in Ecuador, was a challenge in itself.

At the time of his arrest in October 2012, it was reported that he was traveling between Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia and was posing as a Venezuelan businessman in order apply for a visa to live in Ecuador.

The seven economies where there are as many or more women as men entrepreneurs are Panama, Thailand, Ghana, Ecuador, Nigeria, Mexico and Uganda, the report says.

«I can no longer go to Ecuador and say the U.S. is the best place to start a company.»

Ecuador has started drilling the first oil from Yasuní National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest.

«In the coming weeks, a date will be established for the proceedings to be held at the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom», Ecuador's foreign ministry said in the statement.

In late May, a Swedish lower court upheld the arrest warrant for Assange, saying the stay at Ecuador's London embassy did not equal detention.

Nina Vaca came to the U.S. from Ecuador with her family while she was still a child.

Ecuador will allow Swedish prosecutors to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy, where Assange has been living since June 2012, Ecuador's foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

The consensus around the «right to the city» - an idea championed by Ecuador and Brazil - was historical.

This is part of a series on publicly funded UK research at the UN Habitat III summit in Quito, Ecuador.

«In line with this position, Ecuador proposed to Sweden the negotiation of an agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, which was signed last December and which provides the legal framework for the questioning.»

Ecuador's rising prominence in the drug trade is likely the result of a number of factors — not all of them domestic.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

In Colombia, the ongoing peace process with the left - wing FARC rebels has pulled some of those rebels out of the drug trade, allowing criminal groups to move in, especially in the production hotspot of Nariño, which borders Ecuador.

At the beginning of March 2016, US officials in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, intercepted 154 pounds of cocaine valued at $ 2 million that had come from the Ecuador.

The two characters head off on an exotic vacation to Ecuador after Schumer's Emily gets dumped by her boyfriend and can't get anyone else to go with her on the trip besides her mom.

The rest are in Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and China.

However, the peak of Chimborazo in Ecuador is the farthest from the center of the earth.

He began his career at Citicorp in his native Ecuador, according to Brown.

Cuenca is attracting more expats than any other location in Ecuador, living up to International Living's designation as one of the best retirement destinations in the world.

I knew Ecuador was in South America, but I didn't know exactly where.

I admit it: when my wife first mentioned moving to Ecuador, back in 2001, I had to check a map.

When Bartley D'Alfonso began to feel the pinch of trying to live on Social Security in the States, he moved to the highland university town of Cuenca, Ecuador, for a stress - free lifestyle on the same sum.