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The National Assembly yesterday acquiesced to the partial veto made by the Executive branch to the Law on Armed Forces Staff. Among the reforms there are new rules to grant military promotions and assignation of aides-de-camp. This week, the new law will be published in the...

President Rafael Correa visited this February 10 the Teodoro Maldonado hospital of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) of Guayaquil, for details on the declaration of state of emergency. During the visit he verified maintenance problems, control and poor physical...

President Rafael Correa said yesterday that the continuity of the country in the Andean Community (CAN for its Spanish acronym) should be “seriously examined.” These statements were given after the CAN issued last week a contrary resolution to the trade protection...