They were unable to tell me if he was alive or not.

Data from the Ministry of Finance show state coffers received $991 million from oil between January and July.It wasnt that he had a lot of enemies.

and guards barred an Associated Press reporter from interviewing attendees.But it is now becoming more violent.were bused to a campaign rally Thursday at the convention center in Guayaquil.

whose promise of heavy handed tactics against criminals have earned him the nickname Ecuadorian Rambo.He said the countrys transformation is similar to that of Colombia during the height of the Columbian drug wars in the 1980s and 1990s.

And one of the most notorious and prescient things that he said.

the leader of the local Los Choneros gang.That burial mound is one of the largest Iron Age funerary mounds in Scandinavia.

a researcher at the NTNU Science Museum.The other items also vanished as of the early 1920s.

said that dating the ship back that far shows that people had maritime expertise and could build large ships much earlier than previously thought.a large Viking burial site was discovered by Norwegian archaeologists