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  • The inmate told authorities that another prisoner leader Valentin Yordis Lopez, who goes by the nickname "Oriente," escaped from the lockup.

    Venezuela: Prison uprising ends after 27 days 2011

  • The inmate told authorities that another prisoner leader Valentin Yordis Lopez, who goes by the nickname "Oriente," escaped from the lockup.

    Venezuela: Prison uprising ends after 27 days 2011

  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, in eastern Cuba, in Birán, a backwater village in what was known as Oriente province.

    How Fidel Castro became leader for life 2010

  • From the air, the rainforest region in northern Ecuador -- known as the Oriente -- appears as silvery mist and swaths of verdant green.

    Kerry Kennedy: Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador 2009

  • From the air, the rainforest region in northern Ecuador -- known as the Oriente -- appears as silvery mist and swaths of verdant green.

    Kerry Kennedy: Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador 2009

  • While the largest swathe of the Amazon lies in Brazil, Ecuador also has its share of rain forest in the so-called Oriente region.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Ecuador's Rafael Correa: Copenhagen Climate Hero or Environmental Foe? 2009

  • If you have a heart attack, for example, they will send you to the Centro Médico del Oriente, which is generally considered one of the best hospitals of its type in the country.

    Pre-Existing Conditions 2004

  • For the Americans a beacon of light in the Oriente was an old Englishman, Wilfred Tidmarsh, who with his wife had been “in the fields of the Lord” in Ecuador for twelve years.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • For the Americans a beacon of light in the Oriente was an old Englishman, Wilfred Tidmarsh, who with his wife had been “in the fields of the Lord” in Ecuador for twelve years.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • And now I will tell you something else: at the beginning we believed that the most neglected areas were in the provinces of Las Villas, Camaguey and Oriente, which is true -- and in Pinar del Rio, which is also true, because the regions were entirely neglected provinces.

    INAUGURATION OF JAURCO SCHOOL 1968

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