Ecuadorians are voting to select a new president in an election marred by violence and a rapidly deteriorating security situation. Shots were fired at a car carrying a mayor, while investigation is underway for a separate incident...

An Ecuador presidential candidate was assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio, an anti-graft crusader and journalist, was murdered while leaving a school in Quito. Stephan Kueffner reports on Bloomberg Television.

Natural Sound

Ousted Ecuadorian President Abdala Bucaram has denounced the army's decision to support Congress' appointment of his former Vice President as the country's new le
ader.
Bucaram warned the move would...

Natural Sound

At least one person was killed as violence erupted between police and protestors on the streets of the Ecuadorean capital of Quito Fr
iday.
Ecuadorean President, Abdala Bucaram declared a state of...

+Night shots+

1. Various driving shots of police vehicles taking deposed Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez to airport to fly him to B
razil
2. Vehicles pass through security barrier into Quito's main militar
y...

Ecuador - Country in a state of siege

Quito - 1 Oct
2010
1. Wide of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa walking into meeting with Latin American Foreign
Ministers
2. M
edium of Correa
3. Wide of...

1. Exterior shot of Marriot hotel, where news conference was held

2. Wide of the confe
rence
3. Cutaway of
cameraman
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rafael Correa, Ecuado
rean President:
"What is OPEC is...

1. Exterior of government palace just as Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, arrives

2. Press cut
away
3. Correa in talks with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodrigue
z Zapatero
4. Zapater
o pan...

Spanish/Nat

Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has proposed the temporary expansion of a demilitarised zone on the border between his country and Ecuador in a bid...

Quito, Ecuador - 9 August, 2007

1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shaking hands with Ecuadorean President Rafael C
orrea
Trinidad,...

Spanish/Nat

President Abdala Bucaram became the first Ecuadorean head of state to visit Peru on Monday in what Peru's president called a "giant step" to improve relations after a history of...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday that the UK will not allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange safe passage out of the country.

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy on 19 June to avoid...

Voice and effects

VOICED BY Phillipa Meag
her
Thousands of Ecuadorian Indians have taken to the streets of the capital Quito, demanding the resignation of President Jami
l Mahuad....

Spanish/Nat

President Alberto Fujimori has vowed to continue peace talks with Ecuador following an alleged outbreak of military hostility in a disputed border
zone.
Peru accused...

New York City - 1 February 1999

1. Native Ecuadorians in front of court
house
2. U.S.Federal Courthouse,
tilt down
3. Cutaway
of journalists
4. Ecuadorian
s leaving...

Spanish/Nat

Foreign Ministers from Ecuador and Peru are meeting under Argentine auspices in Buenos Aires in a bid to solve the frontier dispute that brought the two states to a brief border...

Washington DC, US - 9 January 2007

1. Wide of asse
mbly
2. Various of
delegates
3. Close up of Camilo Reyes, Colombian Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs
4. SOUNDBITE:...

Buenos Aires - 13 December 2006

1. Wide of presidential p
alace
2. Ecuador's President-elect Rafael Correa with Argentina's President Nestor
Kirchner
3. Correa walks into
news conference
4. Media...

1. Various of troops outside Brazilian embassy

2. Various of burned out ruin of Social Security administration bui
lding
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish
) Vox pop:
"We don't want corrupt people, we don't want dirty people....

1. Various of Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino arriving at Quito airport

2. Mid of Patino posing for photos with a f
amily
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ricardo Patino, Ecuador's Foreign
Minister:
"The...

1. Various of arrival of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa at Latin American House

2. Pan of meeting between Correa and the family of FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt (Ingrid's son Lorenzo, Ingrid's...

Spanish/Nat

Ecuador's new president Gustavo Noboa announced part of his new cabinet on Sunday - the first day of officially assuming power over the cou
ntry.
President Noboa was instated as...

Spanish/Nat

Speaking in Washington, DC on Friday, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller expressed his satisfaction with the release of seven hostages held by Ecuadorian kidnap
pers.
The...

The government of Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno has blamed his predecessor Rafael Correa - and neighbouring Venezuela - for the protests that have swept the country in recent days.