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Sectors affected by safeguard measures intend that the list of selected products is updated

Productive sectors will deliver to the government the new lists of certain products they believe should not be affected by the safeguard applied by Ecuador since last March 11 to 2,800 subheadings of imported products (32% of the total). Luis Alberto Salvador, Vice President of...
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Tunisia: Terrorist attack leave at least 22 people dead

A total of 22 people, including 17 tourists of six nationalities, died this Wednesday during a terrorist attack executed by alleged jihadists in Tunisia, which also left 24 wounded. Besides the tourists (of Italian, Spanish, South African, Japanese, German and Polish...
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Brazilian government announces anti-corruption measures after scandal in Petrobras

The government of President Dilma Rousseff announced this Wednesday a series of measures to battle impunity and corruption in Brazil, in the midst of major corruption scandal in the state company Petrobras. “We are a government that does not compromise on corruption and we...
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Clever Jimenez and Fernando Villavicencio would be awaiting for their sentence to be prescribed

A year ago the Pachakutik former asemblyman Cléver Jimenez and Fernando Villavicencio (his advisor) are fugitives from the Ecuadorianjustice.They left their homes when the National Court of Justice made the conviction of 18 months in prison for libeling against the Ecuadorian...
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Uruguayan Luis Almagro is elected as the new secretary of the OAS

In Extraordinary General Assembly, the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday elected former Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro as its new general secretary for the next five years. Almagro, a lawyer for 51 years, was elected with 33 votes and one abstention and...
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Andrés Paéz denounces alleged impunity in process of the Cofiec case

Opposition Assemblyman Andrés Páez (CREO) said on March 17 that the judgment of bank embezzlement in the Cofiec case enshrines the impunity of some “jointly responsibles” of the credit granting to Gaston Duzac. Páez made this assertion after reading out what would...
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Pachakutik will submit to the CC an initiative for referendum

The leadership of the Pachakutik movement intends to approach the Constitutional Court (CC) to submit a list of questions for a referendum. This will be on March 19, before the march organized by social organizations, at 16:00. The legislator of this group, Magali Orellana,...
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Netanyahu is re-elected as Prime Minister of Israel after winning legislative elections

Benjamin Netanyahu won the legislative elections on Tuesday in Israel, and braces himself to continue as Prime Minister and continue negotiations to form his government. According to the results of the election commission after the almost total count of the ballot papers,...
Posted On 18 Mar 2015
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Unions warn not accepting Lasso and Gutiérrez in the march of tomorrow

At least nine demands will be expressed by social sectors in the streets of Quito and cities across the country, in a demonstration convened on March 19 against the policies of the government of Rafael Correa, and to which a warning is added: they will not allow the presence of...
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ALBA provides its full support to Venezuela in its political conflict with the US

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) expressed through a statement its full support to Venezuela, after the US qualified the South American country as an “extraordinary threat” to its security. After a meeting held in Caracas with the presence of members of...
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