File photo of Ecuadoran President Gutierrez

Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutierrez gives a press conference in Carondelet Palace in Quito, in this file photo taken April 17, 2005. Congress fired Gutierrez on April 20, 2005 and named Vice President Alfredo Palacio to serve out the remainder of a four-year term that expires in January 2007. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja