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Bryant Tello English Ecuador

 Will Ecuador take its large banana company industry global so that they could benefit from it much more then now? Ecuador is a small country that is located in South America next to Colombia and Peru. __E____cuador has a large Banana business that t____hey sell mainly to the Unites States which is called Chiquita banana.__ Ecuador is facing many economic problems in their country like poverty and lack of jobs and lack of education. Ecuador should distribute their large banana company to many other places that are overseas so that they could profit much more then they are profiting now.

 Environmental activists in Ecuador are fighting to persuade the government to divert the course of a new oil pipeline away from one of South America's most important bird reserves. They had built platforms up in the trees in a bid to thwart the construction of the pipeline, which they say presents a dangerous threat to a forest boasting an extraordinary diversity of bird life, animals. In one article it stated that one of the guys said "At one point the pipeline has to go over a ridge that is only 80 centimeters wide, and that is just impossible," he said. __"This is also an area of much seismic activity and we are only a few kilometers from two active volcanoes."__

 Another activist said __"Activists say that more oil has leaked into the ground as a result of accidents, incompetence or sheer indifference in the 30 years since oil exploitation began in Ecuador, than was spilled in the Exxon Valdez super tanker disaster off Alaska in 1989" __ if they were to cut down Ecuador's forest life they would be destroying all the animals that live there that many of the indigenous people kill to eat because they have no other resources to eat around them.

 The Galapagos Islands form the Galapagos province of Ecuador and are part of the country's national park. The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin. __His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ____. __ The islands of Galapagos is one of the main touristic sites that Ecuador has that they get a lot of money from. Another touristic site beside the Galapagos island is " The Middle of the world"

 It has a developing economy and a democratically elected government. Ecuador is geographically and ethnically diverse. Ecuador adopted the U.S. dollar as its official currency in 2000. Both U.S. coins and Ecuadorian coins, which are the same thing to the value of the U.S. coins, are used.Ecuador's population is ethnically mixed. A large majority of the population is mestizo, followed by smaller percentages of indigenous, Afro-Ecuadorian, and European descendant //criollos//.Ecuador has a lot of poverty in its country that has been going on for a long time.Due to an economic crisis in the late 1990s, more than 600,000 Ecuadorians emigrated to the U.S. and Europe from 2000 to 2001.