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The terms of the interpretative clause to article 146 of the Organic Comprehensive criminal Code (COIP), about the wrongful death by professional malpractice, will be defined, among several drafts, at the plenary session scheduled for next Wednesday. Thus, the President of the...

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), deplored today the destitution of Bogota’s Mayor, Gustavo Petro, accusing President Juan Manuel Santos of giving a “surprise attack”, and warned that this decision negatively impacts the peace conversations...

This Thursday the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Yuri Klimenko said that “there are indications that Russia would be ready to carry out an intervention in eastern and southern Ukraine,” in regions with high population of Russian origin, he...

The European Parliament and the European Council have reached a preliminary agreement that will keep the European banking union ready on schedule. After 17 hours of negotiations, sources have said that the decision of the unique resolution mechanism to close banks will have less...

Multinational companies signed agreements with the Ministry of industries in which they are committed to increase their exports from Ecuador, and to buy local products for their production, said yesterday the director of the Ecuadorian Institute for Standardisation (INEN)...

Mayor Jaime Nebot, yesterday morning, ratified an intention that was published in July of the last year: to ask the Charity Board of Guayaquil (JBG) to stop charging the tax to public entertainment, in exchange that the Municipality delivers the value of that tribute.   To do so,...

At first the Venezuelan authorities reported the arrest of Daniel Ceballos, mayor of San Cristobal, and later that same day at night, they reported that the mayor of San Diego, Enzo Scarano, was arrested and sentenced to 10 months and 15 days in jail for contempt. Due to the...

President Rafael Correa will perform on April 12, the Weekly Address from abroad. This time the labor report will be issued from New York, United States. The Government sees this event as a way to bring the government closer to migrants. This is not the first time the President...

Last Wednesday Caupolicán Ochoa, representative of President Rafael Correa’s defense on the trial for libel against Assemblyman Cléver Jimenez, summoned a press conference to explain that they will not insist with the fulfilling of the verdict’s part related to the...

After U.S. Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a favorable sentence for Chevron Corp, the oil company has asked a federal court in New York to order the attorney representing the case for Ecuador, Steven Donziger, to pay a refund of $ 32.3 million related to the costs of legal proceedings...