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Soldiers guard the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Ecuador is under a state of siege, with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued Ecuador's President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he'd been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)
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A policeman demonstrates Thursday at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, next to a bonfire during a protest of police officers and soldiers against a new law that cuts their benefits. President Rafael Correa tried to speak to a group of protesting police officers but was shouted down. (Associated Press)
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(Photo: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) A submarine, seized on July 2 in a shallow river inlet close to the Ecuador-Colombia border, was thought to be intended for smugglers to transport tons of cocaine.
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Colombians talk with a representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (center) in Barranca, Ecuador, in August 2008. An estimated 150,000 Colombian refugees live in Ecuador, according to the United Nations. (Associated Press)
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Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)
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**FILE** Colombian refugees wait for aid in the tiny border town of Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador, after fleeing their country to escape a drug-fueled civil war. (Kelly Hearn/The Washington Times)
