In a steamy forest of winding laurel trees and sprawling palms, a battle is raging between Ecuadorean Indians trying to protect land rights and oil companies who want to drill in the Amazon. In the ...

Ecuador says it will consider changes to draft mining and water laws that provoked a clash with Indians last week that claimed a protester's life. Vice President Lenin Moreno says an accord signed ...

Indigenous peoples and state formation in modern Ecuador / A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker -- Indígena o ciudadano? : republican laws and highland Indian communities in Ecuador, 1820-1857 / Aleezé Sattar ...

Rainforest Indians of Ecuador and Peru urged a U.S. appeals court on Monday to reinstate nine-year-old litigation against Texaco, alleging that toxic dumping devastated their environment and exposed ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – Several hundred Amazon Indians have begun a two-week march on Quito to protest the Ecuadorean government’s approval of a Chinese-operated open-pit copper mine on their ...

Indian oil company ONGC Videsh is looking at buying a stake in oilfields in Ecuador and may also participate in an upcoming tender for the Intercampos blocks, Ecuador's Oil Minister Carlos Perez said ...

YASUNI NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — Ecuador is pressing its appeal for wealthy countries to put up $3.6 billion to protect a pristine Amazon rain forest preserve by leaving its rich oil deposits untouched ...

QUITO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador's attorney general on Saturday urged the government to negotiate with oil firms to stop drilling for crude in a protected area deep in the Amazon jungle where Indian ...