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...“It’s abundantly clear that the raid breaks with all international law and that there was no legal backing to enter the Mexican embassy,” said Jorge Ortiz, an Ecuadorean historian....
...Rafael Correa....
...René Moreira from Pedernales was one of them, after the ceiling of his house fell on top of him: “I was asleep and felt the tremor. I though I was going to die.”...
...Ortiz and pastry chef Laura Sawicki work their magic....
...“There was something crazy about René,” Glorian says dreamily. “It was all peace and love and naked in the vineyards.”...
...Mr Ortiz, one of the most orthodox members of Rafael Correa’s leftist administration, will be replaced by Wilma Salgado, deputy of the Socialist party in the Andean parliament, who has pledged to prioritise...
...“The irony is that this happened from the corporate side; we were watching the banks very closely,” says Guillermo Ortiz, Mexico’s central bank governor....
...His replacement, Fausto Ortiz, was previously the deputy economy minister....
...Fausto Ortiz, the new economy minister, is a technician who – as the former deputy minister – did more than anyone else in recent months to persuade Mr Correa and his right hand man and former minister,...
...But a day later Fausto Ortiz, the deputy finance minister, said Quito would pay the $135m (€98m, £67m) of interest due – not as originally scheduled but during a 30-day grace period allowed under the terms...
...Rene Ortiz, head of the Ecuadorean Association of Oil Companies, which represents private investors in the sector, says uncertainty over Mr Correa’s plans has not helped improve Ecuador’s reputation....
...“Politically, this is a very astute move,” said José Mirtenbaum of Gabriel Rene Moreno university in Santa Cruz....
...Industry representatives such as Rene Ortiz of the Ecuadorean Association of Oil Companies, which represents private companies in the sector, worry that the oil sector will become the target of more protest...
...Rene Ortiz of the Ecuadorean Association of Oil Companies, which represents private companies, said the protests had cut private oil production to about half its normal level of 340,000 b/d....
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