Ecuador

Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron? Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron?

Documentarian Joe Berlinger on the amazing Amazon pollution case in "Crude" -- and its link to the West Memphis 3
  • Go left, young Latin American

    No surprise here: Campaigning against George Bush works in Ecuador, too
  • The heat on Ecuador

    Global warming is vanquishing ancient glaciers throughout South America, killing crops and threatening the water source for millions.
  • When the water runs out

    Ecuador's crops, its power grid and the drinking water for its largest city are all threatened by climate change.
  • Disaster in the Galápagos

    It may take years to measure the ecological destruction caused by the oil spill near Darwin's outdoor laboratory.
  • The man without a country

    How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home.
  • Globalized grievance

    Indigenous Ecuadorians want Texaco to answer for alleged environmental recklessness in the Amazon -- and 30,000 of them are fighting the oil giant in U.S. District Court.
  • Where the wild things are

    Where the wild things are: An archaeologist explores the Galapagos on an expedition run by school kids.
  • The yuckiest food in the Amazon

    What tastes worse than rodent knee and saliva-flavored manioc mash? It depends where you come from, as Mary Roach learns in a remote Amazon village.
  • This week in travel

    Wanderlust presents a selective guide to the week's travel-related news
  • Bad News From a Black Coast: Part Two

    Salon Wanderlust presents the second installment in an exclusive excerpt from the unpublished memoir of writer Moritz Thomsen, about his life in Ecuador from 1965 to 1991.
  • Bad news from a black coast

    Salon Wanderlust presents exclusive excerpts from the unpublished memoir of writer Moritz Thomsen, about his life in Ecuador from the 1965 to 1991.
  • Mondo Weirdo: Old McDonald had a farm

    Amazing travel tales from around the world

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