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The plenary of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym), in session on Friday January 16, appointedJuan Pablo Pozo as the new president of the organization. Nubia Villacís was also elected this day as the new vice president, replacing Carlos Tayupanta....

The company that for four and a half years imprinted the newspapers El Telégrafo and PP El Verdadero will disappear and will be replaced by the Public Company El Telegrafo EP. Executive Order 545, issued last Wednesday, ordered the dissolution of the Anonimus Society of National...

The Deputy Minister of Environment, Lorena Sanchez, approved the environmental license to allow the National Mining Company (Enami) and the Chilean company Codelco resume advanced exploration activities in the Llurimagua project. This mining project is located in the parishes...

A heavily armed man who took this morning two hostages at a post office in western Paris, in the town of Colombes, surrendered to police this Friday causing no casualties in the attack, local media reported. The event, that does not seem to be related to the Jihadist attacks that...

The president of Catalonia Artur Mas announced on Wednesday the early elections of September 27, 2015 as a first step towards independence of this Spanish region if the secessionist parties obtain majority. “I have taken the decision to hold Catalan (…) elections on...

The resignation of Gloria Toapanta, one of the winners of the selection process in the Council of Citizen Participation, surprised the members of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym), as she remained only six days in office. The argument was...

The Telecommunications bill was partially vetoed by the President of the Republic, Rafael Correa. The President made 24 comments on the text. Yesterday, the document would have come to the legislature, said the website of the National Assembly. The website said that one of the...

The former police chief Ernesto González chose not refer to the events of 30-S at the launch of his book “Testimony of a commander” (Testimonio de un comandante, for its Spanish name), despite the fact that in previous days his statements about police the revolt...

President Nicolas Maduro announced on Thursday he got Russian funding for the Venezuelan economy, including an expansion of oil investments in Moscow at the end of a tour that took him through six countries in search of support amid falling oil prices. Maduro said he was able to...

The Governments of Ecuador and Peru will meet on Monday in Quito to discuss the implementation of an exchange safeguard measure of 7%, which applies to Peru since January 5th. This would be the second meeting held by the President of Ecuador, developed after the appointment of...