62ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES PLACE AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK

MIAMI, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Ecuador has asked OPEC leaders to allow the country to maintain its oil production levels, despite cuts across the board for the cartel member nations, saying its federal budget depends heavily on current levels of production.

MIAMI, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has threatened to kick out foreign oil companies if they don't increase output in the coming weeks and months.

MIAMI, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Ecuador's oil-based economy is going to be further regulated and its foreign investors subject to greater scrutiny, according to the country's leftist leader, President Rafael Correa, who won a sweeping victory in this week's constitutional referendum vote on a new constitution.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa says he has a mandate for social change after voters overwhelmingly approved new powers for the presidency.

QUITO, Ecuador, July 30 (UPI) -- Ecuador won't renew its lease with the United States for an air base in the South American country used for anti-drug flights, said Ecuadorian officials.

QUITO, Ecuador, July 15 (UPI) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that Colombia's recent successful effort to free 15 hostages was more luck than the result of "good planning."

STRASBOURG, France, June 19 (UPI) -- The European Parliament's new laws that would standardize member countries' treatment of illegal immigrants are being criticized by opponents as too harsh.

BOGOTA, May 15 (UPI) -- Colombian officials did not tamper with computer files that belonged to rebel leaders indicating rebel ties to Venezuela, Interpol officials said Thursday.

MIAMI, May 14 (UPI) -- Venezuelan and Ecuadorian state energy firms announced they would collaborate on the construction and running of an oil refinery in Ecuador, officials from both nations said.

QUITO , Ecuador, May 5 (UPI) -- Ecuador likely won't renew the contract allowing the U.S. military to run drug-surveillance flights from a base in the country, Ecuadoran leaders say.