Networking Pays Finding Professional Work Abroad
The job offer was what I’d always wanted: an opportunity to help the poorest of the poor and to be well compensated while working in a beautiful colonial city nestled in the temperate Andes of Ecuador. The process leading to the job offer was challenging.
I had applied for countless international development positions and learned to [...]
ECUADOR: Chevron's Amazon 'fake cleanup' trial
A report submitted this week to a court in Ecuador finding dangerous levels of contamination at oil wells Chevron says it cleaned up in the 1990s is expected to reinforce a fraud indictment against two Chevron lawyers in a $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil company.
Seven Ecuadorian officials were also included in the indictment [...]
Requirements to live in Ecuador
Ecuador is definitely an ideal place to live or to stay for along time. A small country but one with great diversity for traveling and being able to reach places in just a few hours. Prices are relatively cheap, thousands of activities and the friendliness of its people will make you enjoy your stay. However, [...]
Ecuador Expedition Uncovers ‘E.T.-Like’ Salamander
– An expedition to the pristine forests of Ecuador near the Peruvian border uncovered 12 new species, including a salamander that Conservation International said looked like E.T., the alien from the Steven Spielberg film.
The discoveries in the Nangaritza region of the Cordillera del Condor included what the researchers termed a “remarkably ugly bug-eyed salamander,” a [...]
Ecuador defeats Peru 2-1
Jefferson Montero and Carlos Tenorio scored for Ecuador in a 2-1 victory at Peru Sunday in World Cup qualifying in South America.
The victory gave Ecuador some hope as a long shot of reaching next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa. Brazil and Paraguay each have 24 points in 13 games, but Brazil leads on [...]
