Tag: Portoviejo

Ecuador counts over 400 quake deaths, damage in the billions

BY ANA ISABEL MARTINEZ AND JULIA SYMMES COBB PORTOVIEJO/PEDERNALES, ECUADOR (Reuters) —  Touring a city ravaged by the earthquake that killed at least 413 people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Monday contemplated a rebuilding costing billions of dollars and a potentially “huge” impact on the fragile OPEC economy. But the traumatized survivors Correa met on his rounds two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake had much more immediate concerns: many asked him for water. With the death […]