Quito, May 20 (EFE).- Pegaso, a nanosatellite that went into orbit on April 25 and whose video feed started on May 16, has been beaming images of different regions of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela to Earth, Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency, or EXA, director Ronnie Nader said. Pegaso streamed video of the Peruvian coast around 10:00 a.m. Sunday that was received at the EXA ground station in Guayaquil and rebroadcast via the Internet, Nader told Efe. "We did not reac Chile because we were out of range," the Ecuadorian astronaut said.

Quito, May 2 (EFE).- Ecuador's foreign minister announced Thursday that his country and Peru have decided to call their respective ambassadors home for consultations after the Ecuadorian envoy in Lima was involved in an altercation at a supermarket. "The governments of Ecuador and Peru have decided to call our ambassadors home for consultations after the regrettable incident of April 21," Ricardo Patiño said via Twitter. "The governments of Ecuador and Peru will avoid letting an isolated incident affect the excellent level of relations between our countries," he added.

Quito, Apr 12 (EFE).- Ecuadorian broadcast journalist Fausto Valdiviezo was fatally shot in his car, authorities said Friday. "We are dismayed by the murder of Fausto Valdiviezo. An embrace of solidarity for his family and the commitment that the murder will not go unpunished," the country's president, Rafael Correa, said on Twitter. The 53-year-old journalist was killed Thursday night after leaving his mother's home in the coastal city of Guayaquil, witnesses said.

Amazon tribesmen killed at least 18 people in an apparent revenge attack against a rival group in Ecuador, an indigenous leader said Thursday. Citing a person who participated in the attack, Gilberto Nenquimo told AFP that elderly men and women were among the dead, along with an unknown number of children. He was speaking from the southeastern town of Puyo. According to Huaorani leaders, several members of the clan attacked a settlement of the Taromenane clan over the weekend in retaliation for the March 5 spearing deaths of a Huaorani leader and his wife.