Reuters: Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Fander Falconi quit on Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized the way he was negotiating a project to protect the Amazon rain forest. “Falconi presented his resignation,” a government statement said. He had served as the Andean country’s chief diplomat since December 2008. Under Correa’s Yasuni initiative, OPEC-member Ecuador would leave 850 million barrels of oil, worth $6 billion, underground in its Amazon region as a contribution to …