QUITO, Ecuador — Hundreds of Indians blocked Ecuador’s Pan American highway in several provinces Monday with rocks, tree trunks and burning tires to protest new water, mining and oil laws. Their ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador — Daryl Hannah said she planned to meet with Ecuador’s president Tuesday to discuss a lawsuit by Indians and settlers against Chevron Corp., a day after she trudged through the ...

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 ...

A fugitive Indian guru wanted on charges of rape and abduction in India has announced he is establishing his own country on an island off the coast of Ecuador, reports said. Nithyananda, a self-styled ...

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 ...

Indigenous an non-indigenous people protest the policies of President Rafael Correa as they march near the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday March 22, 2012. Protesters reached Ecuador’s ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — More than 1,000 indigenous protesters reached Ecuador's capital Thursday after a two-week march from the Amazon to oppose plans for large-scale mining on their lands. The ...