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Photographs by John Zarocostas/The Washington Times Among the first sign of the global economic crisis' arrival in Ecuador is the drop in demand, and thus prices, of the nation's chief products, such as (from left) flowers, bananas and cacao. "We know we cannot escape the effect of the crisis; we are not immune," said Eduardo Egas Pena, Ecuador's deputy minister of foreign relations, commerce and integration. The nation is also seeing a 30 percent reduction in remittances sent home by Ecuadorean emigrants.