Reuters: Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Fander Falconi stepped down Tuesday, a source at the ministry said, after President Rafael Correa criticized the way that Falconi was negotiating an Amazon rain forest protection project. “He resigned this morning,” said the source, who has direct knowledge of the situation and asked to remain anonymous. Under Correa’s Yasuni initiative, Ecuador would leave 850 million barrels of oil, worth $6 billion, underground in the country’s Amazon region as a …