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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nationwide protests or ''uprising'' by Ecuador's indigenous people that has brought much of this Andean nation to a standstill over the past two weeks ended Wednesday with the signing of a pact ...

QUITO -- The protests by indigenous groups against the government's economic austerity policies have brought large areas of the country to a standstill for the past two weeks, intensifying Monday when ...

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 ...