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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) - Once scorned as one of Latin America’s grimiest, down-at-the-heel cities, Ecuador’s sprawling port of Guayaquil has become a model of urban renewal for the region.

Thanks to a $1 billion face-lift by local authorities completed last year after a decade of work, the country’s most populous city has all but erased its dismal image.”

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July 1st, 2004 at 12:27 am

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