<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rafael Correa: News &amp; Videos about Rafael Correa - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Rafael_Correa</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Rafael Correa from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:44 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Rafael Correa: News &amp; Videos about Rafael Correa - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Rafael_Correa</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Rafael Correa from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Arrest warrant derails Colombia-Ecuador talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/17/colombia.ecuador.relations/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/17/colombia.ecuador.relations/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After nearly going to war last year over a Colombian military raid inside Ecuador, the two nations seemed to be patching relations when their foreign ministers met a few weeks ago.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>President, indigenous groups at odds over fatal protest in Ecuador</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/02/ecuador.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/02/ecuador.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On the edge of Ecuador's Amazon Basin, the Upano River gives life to a vibrant agricultural sector that keeps the economy of the southeastern city of Macas beating. 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</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ecuador: Colombian raid prevented release of captives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/03/ecuador.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/03/ecuador.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ecuador's president said Monday that a deal to release political prisoners -- including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before a Colombian raid into his country Saturday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ecuador pulls diplomat from Bogota</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/02/chavez.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/02/chavez.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly Ecuador floods leave thousands homeless </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/21/ecuador.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/21/ecuador.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>In Ecuador, a Vote for Democracy?
 
 
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1667386,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1667386,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Viewpoint: A constitutional referendum and plans to dissolve Congress are the latest reminder that Latin America's legislatures have often discredited the region's democracies</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ecuador plan seeks balance of environment, oil </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/07/23/ecuador.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/07/23/ecuador.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Under pressure to preserve the environment while at the same time ease the poverty of his people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has come up with an unusual solution.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Banner day</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/25/8396784/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/25/8396784/index.htm</guid><description>When Rafael Correa (above, with his wife on election night) began campaigning for President, he seemed unlikely to win. Close links with a fellow leftist, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, were cos... </description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Análisis: Chávez radicaliza su revolución</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/16/venezuela.chavez.es/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/16/venezuela.chavez.es/index.html</guid><description>El Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez cumplió su promesa de radicalizar su revolución Bolivariana a partir de su reelección.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The world at risk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/27/8394460/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/27/8394460/index.htm</guid><description>1. Mexico The Fox administration will resolve much of the political crisis in Oaxaca before incoming President Felipe Calderón takes power, but the social malaise from which the conflict arose will... </description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The insider's guide to Ecuador's elections</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/27/tbr.ecuador/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/27/tbr.ecuador/index.html</guid><description>Rafael Correa, a leftist nationalist who is friendly with Venezuela's anti-U.S. president, defeated banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa in Ecuador's presidential runoff on Sunday, partial results indicated. Here is our guide to the country and the vote.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The world at risk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/02/8387617/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/02/8387617/index.htm</guid><description>1. Ecuador</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>