Ecuador
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Activists say their presence at the meeting in Peru would be embarrassing to President Rafael Correa, who wants to drill for oil in the Amazon
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Ruling means WikiLeaks founder still faces extradition to Sweden if he leaves Ecuador embassy in London
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Despite a strong business case for recycling scrap steel, uptake has been low. One company in Ecuador is blazing a trail for steel and the circular economy in Latin America
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Convention on Migratory Species meeting in Ecuador adds listings for Cuvier’s beaked-whale, and 21 shark, ray and sawfish
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Access to surgery could save millions of lives, so a mobile clinic is showing how doctors can reach rural communities, write Haadi Tarek Shalabi and Saggah Tarek Shalabi
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29 September - 3 October: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week
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Governments pledge to consult native groups over projects on indigenous lands and improve access to education and services
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Lonesome George, the world’s most famous tortoise, goes on display at the American Museum of Natural History
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40% of Ecuadorian adults don’t have a bank account, but is their new ‘currency’ more about escaping the US dollar?
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The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world
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Adam Greenfield explains why many urbanists think the lowly bus – emblem of all that is slow, stigmatised and wasteful – is the key to city transit ... and that Latin America is the only place doing it right
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Fred McConnell looks at the potential scenarios if WikiLeaks founder Assange were to step outside the Ecuadorian embassy
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WikiLeaks founder, who has lived at the embassy for two years, dismisses reports that he is to give himself up to UK authorities
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will be leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been living for the past two years
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Ricardo Patino says British government has no will to find a solution to stalemate that has confined WikiLeaks founder to London's Ecuadorian embassy for more than two years
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Review The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden review – unfocused but fascinating documentary
3 / 5 starsCate Blanchett contributes to a compelling but long documentary about a 1930s settlement in the Galapagos that goes sour, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Decision by Stockholm judge condemns WikiLeaks founder to remain in Ecuador embassy in London
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Government appeared to be preparing plans for power plant while pursuing a high-profile scheme not to exploit oil under Yasuni national park
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Two years after WikiLeaks founder took refuge in Ecuadorian embassy, lawyers poised to challenge Swedish detention order
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Razmig Keucheyan: Debt audits show that austerity is politically motivated to favour social elites. Is a new working-class internationalism in the air?
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos: The president still faces tough challenges in modernising the economy and overcoming an intractable colonial legacy
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Companies could start extracting oil underneath key biodiversity reserve on Earth by 2016
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Government says only 359,762 of 756,000 signatures were legitimate, meaning petition fails to trigger national referendum
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Rafael Correa accuses Kichwa leaders of acting above the law in holding three opposition activists convicted of defaming him
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Civil society groups say enough signatures have been gathered to force a referendum but authorities are interfering
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All 20 Department of Defense employees at US embassy in Quito ordered to leave by the end of the month
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Henry Nicholls introduces a carnival of amazing beings on the Galápagos islands. By Caspar Henderson
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Juan Pablo Saenz is representing small farmers trying to force Chevron to pay damages for pollution in the Amazon
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan: Chevron is reluctant to give ground to the people affected by the dumping of toxic waste. But they're not going to stop fighting for compensation
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For International Women's Day, UNDP leader and former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark picks seven women who are leading positive change all over the world
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District judge denounces ‘Robin Hood defense’ and ‘corrupt means’ of lawyers for rainforest’s indigenous people
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Campaigners confident of gathering enough signatures to get a vote on overturning the decision to drill for oil in national park
Two years on, Julian Assange is still a prisoner of process