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The witness, an Ecuadorean, said the victims were from countries including El Salvador, Honduras and Brazil.

The case, which Chevron claims is fraudulent, is still working its way through the Ecuadorean appeals process.

That was followed a few months later by a $100m purchase of a 14 per cent stake in an Ecuadorean oilfield.

Chevron contends that the remaining pollution is wholly the fault of Petroecuador, an oil firm owned by the Ecuadorean government.

Judge Kaplan issued a temporary order in February forbidding enforcement of the Ecuadorean verdict.

Colombia does not recognise Ecuadorean jurisdiction in the case.

It has also talked of buying an Argentine nuclear-power plant and Ecuadorean bonds.

Last month an Ecuadorean judge charged five Colombian generals over the raid.

They grow naturally on an Ecuadorean farm nestled between two volcanoes.

Meanwhile, Mr. Illingworth and his relatives have a privileged perspective on Ecuadorean-British relations.

ECUADOR: A Chinese worker clears brush in the Ecuadorean Amazon, where the Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro is building a dam.

NONE of the three Ecuadorean presidents elected between 1996 and 2004 finished their four-year terms.

An Ecuadorean demonstrator pulls a burning tyre during protests against the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) in Quito April 6, 2006.

The deaths have stunned the Ecuadorean public.

ON AUGUST 24th an 18-year-old Ecuadorean approached a military checkpoint in Tamaulipas, a northern state in Mexico.

In February the plaintiffs, some 30, 000 Amazon Indians and peasant farmers, won an $18. 2 billion verdict in a provincial Ecuadorean court.

An Ecuadorean history of the world