Ecuador: Is it nuts to invest here?

Having put investors' backs up recently, Ecuador is now on the charm offensive to entice foreign investment. So, is it time to give this resource-rich country another look? James McKeigue investigates.

You would have to be nuts to invest in Ecuador. Firebrand socialist leader Rafael Correa has just secured another four-year term and vowed to carry on his "citizens' revolution". And so far, that revolution has been a painful one for Western investors.

Since coming to power in 2007, Correa has voluntarily defaulted on the country's debt, rewritten terms for natural resource companies and steadily pushed up taxes for imported goods.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.