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came in this week's bad news of Ecuador and Colombia to Europe. Both countries are in dispute because of an agreed use of the Colombian military on Ecuadorian territory. Here, a leading member of the Colombian rebel organization FARC was killed. As the diplomatic crisis starts, is completely open to the hour.
A theme are still flooding in the country. This is explored also the comment by Eckhart Wolff.
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News on 6 March 2008
started relief operations in flood plains people on the coast tata get strong support: in the areas hit by severe flooding in Ecuador is in the past week started a series of relief efforts. Many countries such as Spain, Peru, Chile and the United States sent relief supplies to affected Areas. Ecuadorian organizations are also on site. They distribute food and provide medical and technical assistance. This includes the Mission HCJB. The balance of the flood is devastating. The damage is estimated that approximately one billion U.S. dollars. 265 000 people had to be evacuated from their homes.
Ecuador breaks off relations with Colombia military action triggers major crisis in Ecuador has severed diplomatic relations earlier this week to its northern neighbor Colombia. The reason is the killing of rebel leader Raul Reyes by the Colombian army in Ecuadorian territory. The military action had not been previously agreed with Ecuador. An apology from the Colombian government was followed by serious allegations of Ecuador. The country work together with the FARC, said in Bogota. The Ecuadorian government denied the allegations.
No layoffs at Siemens in Ecuador sigh of relief at Siemens employees: The electronics company will phase in Ecuador, no jobs. This was announced by the local manager of the Siemens office, Leonardo Gómez. Siemens at its plant in Ecuador currently has about 100 employees. Worldwide, the Group intends to emphasize in this year up to 3800 points, 2000 of them in Germany.
airlines protest against high fees Vigorous Resistance: The Ecuadorian airlines have protested against high taxes and fees in Quito. The airport of the capital belonging to the most expensive in America, "said Antonio Salvador, the President of the Association of Ecuadorian airlines last week, the press. In particular, small airlines are confronted with a threat to their existence. The company Icaro has only $ 33,000 a month in taxes paid to the airport company. For this reason, considering Icaro to handle its flights from 80 kilometers away from the airport in Latacunga. Further increases in fees, especially in connection with the construction of the airport in Quito, the airlines would pass on to customers, "said Antonio Salvador, president of the airline association. Sixto Vizuete
to coach promoted by the transition to a permanent solution: If the current caretaker coach Sixto Vizuete since last week, formally head coach of Ecuador's national football team. After the cancellation of wish coach Hernan Dario Gomez recently everything was run out on a promotion from Sixto Vizuete. The appointment Vizuete was overshadowed by bad news. Edison Mendez, Ecuador midfielder in the service of the Dutch first division side PSV Eindhoven, announced his retirement from international football. He justified his decision by saying that he disagreed with the appointment of a national coach Vizuete was. He would have preferred an internationally experienced coach.
Very cloudy but mostly dry Finally, as always, the views of the weather: it was largely dry in the past week Andean highlands. From the most heavily overcast sky were only scattered, but sometimes heavy showers. The umbrella is also available in the next few days an important tool for the people of Ecuador. For March and April are predicted more heavy rains across the country.
comment on 6 March 2008 - Dr. Eckhart Wolff
country among states for weeks in Ecuador. And it seems as if the disaster takes every day aggravates it.
two coastal provinces of Ecuador are almost completely under water. Everywhere landslides are reported to spill the streets of the coastal region. The country seems not to come to rest. Now for all 24 provinces of Ecuador's state of emergency was declared. This means that the military is used everywhere for help.
was until recently the area around the volcano Tungurahua, which covered entire villages with ash, crops destroyed, people forced to evacuate, so the situation has calmed down there. We at HCJB had a few days in a camp for evacuees, she managed medically and were able to convince us that much is done for them. The government gives them food, especially vegetables and fruit to cultivate their fields or in part, for safety's sake but to sleep in a newly built wooden huts, about eight miles as the crow flies from the volcano - the "dust-producing vent" always in mind.
No, currently suffering the people on the coast by the continuing heavy rain the most. Which there is indeed every year during the rainy season, but rarely the situation was as bad as in 2008. Earlier this year, rice has been set. Now he has for weeks under water and rotten. For a Harvest, new plants are grown. In the cocoa plantations, people take boats to harvest the fruit before it reaches the water. But where are the fruits dry, as usual on the cement floor of the courts or by the roadside? For only the dried beans of the cacao fruit to money. Ecuador is also a world leader in exports of bananas. But there must now often "harvested" with boats are.
Many houses in the coastal provinces are on stilts. Some of these stilts have not been high enough. Houses were washed away. In other houses the water is up to the second floor. You see people everywhere, taken away their belongings on bicycles or boats. The military and civil defense to help the people at the "parade". Hundreds of mass shelters insist on the "hills". The Ecuadorian coast, however, has very little slope. The water therefore flows is very slow, it is brown from the battered earth. Aquatic plants thrive in it magnificently. In many places it is green from such plants. Thus the situation looks from the air often did not look so bad. But what you do not see: the residents wade through chest-deep in water, and woe to those who "missed the road" here. He lands in the ditch and as it must swim to survive.
thrive But not only the water plants well. Even diseases like dengue fever and malaria are clearly increasing. People complain of skin diseases. All over the millions of mosquitoes bite their victims. Currently, many teams from all over the country are working to help people. A wave of solidarity shown. People donate food, help in health care practice - such as HCJB with several groups. Even international aid is on rolling out of the EU, Japan, from the U.S.: Ecuador has
different climate zones. Weather-wise it is currently the most stable in the Oriente, the eastern part of the country. The highlands now enters also into a rainy period. Severe thunderstorm with freezing rain and hail are currently looking for home the capital Quito and the surrounding area. But this is not unusual in the Highlands, though now and then make the roads impassable mud slides and houses bring little fix on slopes to collapse. Flooding is also available in other countries of South America. In Bolivia, the Amazon basin of water, and in the east of Peru it is raining heavily.
And in May and June, people expect in the Oriente of Ecuador, "the Flood" - like every year. The streets will also be buried here and turn the rivers into raging rivers. Then there is summer in the highlands of Ecuador and on the coast dusty and dry. You can think of no major differences in a country like ours. While living in a place with joy, breaks a few miles from the next disaster. And what do the volcanoes in the meantime? Their "rainy season" is subject to different laws of nature.
