Describes how Ecuador changed after spanish arrival
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Ecuador For Kids provides an overview of one of South America's most diverse countries. Narrated by children, you will visit Ecuadorian cities like Quayaquil, Cuenca, Baños and Quito in detail and learn about Ecuador's history, culture, cuisine and lifestyles. The country's Amazonas region is also explored in detail. Features lively Andean music. The program is about 30 minutes long. Closed-Captioned and subtitled in English. Purchase DVD at hhtp://www.cultureforkids.com or at amazon.com.
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This documentary is about the past, present, and future of the mining in Ecuador. Is the historical development of mining in Ecuador, the ancient culture that started the mining. Director: Hernan Cuellar Director of photography: Werner Aubele Contact: hernancuellar49@gmail.com or werneraubele@gmail.com
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There is so much to see and do in and around Quito. Here are some of my experiences, but still so much more I want to go back for!
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Weaving Life - Discovering the Story of Ecuador's "Panama Hat" This is a 30min documentary about the perhaps most famous and powerful hat in history. We are following the story and the people who are making the word's most famous straw hat - the Panama hat. In truth this hat has always been woven in Ecuador, a small Latin American country. The misnomer Panama hat has its origin from the times when the Panama canal was built and the hat was used by the workers to protect themselves from the sun. In Europe and North America the hat is sold for up to 10.000 Dollars, while the weavers in Ecuador earn a tenth or less of the selling price. Normally 200 Dollars a month. They can hardly feed their families while the hat is a symbol of status and authority in the First World. However, still today the hat plays an important part in Ecuador's history and culture. But the art of weaving the hat is dying out. The handicraft is bad paid and not interesting anymore for young people. I am following the Panama hat's trail across Ecuador. We get to know the people who are making the hat, how they live and what role the hat plays in their lives.
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Weaving Life - Discovering the Story of Ecuador's "Panama Hat" This is a 30min documentary about the perhaps most famous and powerful hat in history. We are following the story and the people who are making the word's most famous straw hat - the Panama hat. In truth this hat has always been woven in Ecuador, a small Latin American country. The misnomer Panama hat has its origin from the times when the Panama canal was built and the hat was used by the workers to protect themselves from the sun. In Europe and North America the hat is sold for up to 10.000 Dollars, while the weavers in Ecuador earn a tenth or less of the selling price. Normally 200 Dollars a month. They can hardly feed their families while the hat is a symbol of status and authority in the First World. However, still today the hat plays an important part in Ecuador's history and culture. But the art of weaving the hat is dying out. The handicraft is bad paid and not interesting anymore for young people. I am following the Panama hat's trail across Ecuador. We get to know the people who are making the hat, how they live and what role the hat plays in their lives.
Tags :Panama, Hat, Ecuador, Weaver, Weaving, Straw, Latin, America, Art, superfino, Strohhut, Panamahut, Weber, Montecristi, Cuenca

Weaving Life - Discovering the Story of Ecuador's "Panama Hat" This is a 30min documentary about the perhaps most famous and powerful hat in history. We are following the story and the people who are making the word's most famous straw hat - the Panama hat. In truth this hat has always been woven in Ecuador, a small Latin American country. The misnomer Panama hat has its origin from the times when the Panama canal was built and the hat was used by the workers to protect themselves from the sun. In Europe and North America the hat is sold for up to 10.000 Dollars, while the weavers in Ecuador earn a tenth or less of the selling price. Normally 200 Dollars a month. They can hardly feed their families while the hat is a symbol of status and authority in the First World. However, still today the hat plays an important part in Ecuador's history and culture. But the art of weaving the hat is dying out. The handicraft is bad paid and not interesting anymore for young people. I am following the Panama hat's trail across Ecuador. We get to know the people who are making the hat, how they live and what role the hat plays in their lives.
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This project aims to strengthen the collective memory of Ecuadorian society of key moments in its social struggle through the digitisation of documents of various types that detail the main events in recent Ecuadorian history. The aim is to stimulate broad discussion about important social processes and to educate the younger generations about historical events over the past 25 years in a non-formal manner through the production of multimedia content. Production of the various materials occurs in close collaboration with those who witnessed the events in order to write history alongside the official version. At the same time, a platform for communication and information is being set up by strengthening the Radio la Luna web site. An on-line radio service is being set up for those listeners outside Quito under bad broadcasting conditions. The project will strengthen ties with independent broadcasting organisations and other information networks throughout Latin America in order to exchange content and lessons learned about conserving and strengthening collective memory but also about the use of ICTs to achieve this. For more information: www.iicd.org
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Ecuadorians are suing oil giant Chevron, the owner of Texaco, because they say oil drilling in the Amazon jungle by Texaco polluted their fragile environment. Scott Pelley reports.
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The first Muslims settlers were primarily Arabs from what is known to us now as Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt. They emigrated to Ecuador for the same reasons they came to the rest of the Latin world, escaping from World War I and II. These Arab Muslims entered these lands under Turkish passports from the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, these first Arab Muslims were known as "Turks." The settlements were basically in the capital city of Quito and in Guayaquil, the largest seaport by the Pacific Ocean. However, some Muslims went to the coastal side by the Manab, Los Ríos, and Esmeraldas provinces. Ecuador's peaceful environment attracted them very much. The family-oriented society of Ecuador perhaps reminded them of home within an Arab society... ( MORE - www.latinodawah.org )
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Shakira performs "Te Dejo Madrid" On Sunday night, Mexico, Colombia, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina. Shakira made history by giving the largest concert ever in Mexican history. Over 200000 people gathered in Plaza del Zocalo.
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The cave located on the eastern slopes of the andes mountains in the morona santiango province of ecuador
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www.CarrieAndJonathan.com A history of the city of Quito as well as talking about the virgin statue in Quito, which was given to Ecuador (by Spain) in over 7000 pieces shipped from Spain. It's a huge statue and pretty amazing. Wasn't lit up when we were there to conserve electricity for the city of Quito. http
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At the heart of an exuberant subtropical forest to the northwest, very close to Quito the capital of Ecuador, lays Tulipe, the ceremonial center of the Yumbo culture. Bordering a river of crystal-clear waters, this is a unique energetic site where ceremonial practices of this pre-Hispanic society took place to honor the sun, their highest deity. The Yumbos were peaceful people dedicated to agriculture and commerce, with a close relationship with their environment and solar cosmovision. After years of patient work the Tulipe site has now been open for visitors, featuring an on-site interpretation center and stone structures like pools or water mirrors of various forms, where the shamans (priests) and yachaks (sage men) performed astronomic observations, ceremonies and cults to the sun and the moon. A hike on a path leading to the main pool is particularly interesting, surrounded by trees and medicinal, ritual and ornamental plants that border the Tulipe River. The pre-Hispanic Yumbo ethnia lived in this region from 800 to 1660; they were mindalaes or merchants, who controlled the crucial trade route between the Pacific Coast, the Andes and the Amazon to the east. Their very interesting ancient mountain paths or coluncos can still be used; these are deep and narrow passageways, covered by entwined vegetation that formed a roof and allowed the merchants to travel under this cool protection. Metropolitan Touring is pleased to introduce the first of its Ancient Sun Culture ...
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Guayaquil-Ecuador on History. Guayaquil moves to the offensive. Guayaquil por la Patria el Ecuador.
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PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
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Ecuador is also the country of eternal springtime a place with history, costumes and tradition, It is Due to its prime location along the equator line, e. The countrys great geographical diversity has produced a variety of climates and microclimates , ideal environments for the flourishing of flora and fauna. Ecuador, in the Middle of the World, in this place without zero latitude, the shade vanishes with the midday sun. Only in Ecuador can take minutes to pass from the Northern to the Southern. For his incomparable geography, his cultural diversity, his history and great biodiversity in relation to his size, the Ecuador is one of the tourist destinations the most recommended for those who want to have a few pleasant vacations. In only two or three weeks of trip four different worlds can be seen inside the same country, admiring the snow of the Andes, the mystery of the Amazonian jungle, the exuberant beaches of the Pacífico and the magic of the Galapagos Islands in a country " where everything is nearby ".
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By the mid 1980s, a handful of local native Ecuadorian people embraced Islam overseas. They never heard the word 'Islam' in their own Ecuador. They were highly influenced by pious Muslims while studying at universities in Europe and United States. They came to appreciate Islam as a universal religion, a brotherhood, capable of bringing people from all spheres of life to harmoniously work together in bringing peace. Islam also provided logic that many Ecuadorians never found in Christian teachings. These new Muslims are highly enthusiastic propagators, but swinging against current is not easy...( MORE - www.latinodawah.org )
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This week, Julian Assange talks to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. Correa is a left wing populist who has changed the face of Ecuador. But unlike his predecessors he holds a Ph.D. in economics. According to US embassy cables, Correa is the most popular President in Ecuador's democratic history. But in 2010 he was taken hostage in an attempted coup d'etat. He blames the coup attempt on corrupt media and has launched a controversial counter-offensive. Correa says the media defines what reforms are possible. Assange tries to figure out is Ecuadorian president justified and what is his vision for Latin America. Julian Assange Show - official video page: assange.rt.com Subscribe to RT! http Watch RT LIVE on our website rt.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
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