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Ecuador buckles under virus, broken oil lines and old debt

by Associated Press
| April 13, 2020 12:03 AM

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno unveiled an emergency economic plan Friday aimed at rescuing the South American nation hard hit by the new coronavirus and then dealt a second blow when two large pipelines broke, halting critical crude exports.

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