Their vote in the regional poll slumped to 4% of the total, yet they now seem bent on fissuring.

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The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.

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Veining across his shirt, fissuring down the wall.

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