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The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) approved on Friday, February 13 the requests of popular consultation on urban public transport in Guayaquil raised by the mayor of that city, Jaime Nebot, and the citizen Édison Mora. Furthermore, in the coming days the...

Travellers arriving at the crowded US airports shall not fill onerous customs forms from late 2016, announced on Friday the US government, which aims to reduce the waiting lines. By presenting these measures to “improve arrival procedures at all airports” of the...

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, was charged this Friday by the justice of her country by the complaint of alleged cover-up in the attack on the AMIA Jewish Mutual submitted by prosecutor Alberto Nisman four days before his death. Federal prosecutor...

Three requests of popular consultation of Sociedad Patriotica (SP), Democracia Sí and Compromiso Ecuador, respectively, are being analyzed in the Constitutional Court (CC) and the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). These groups of different political...

The UN recommended to Mexico, through the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the creation of a “fiscal unit specialized in investigating enforced disappearances,” said a ruling released this Friday in Geneva. The opinion was prepared by ten independent experts who...

At least 19 people dead and 67 wounded was the balance of an attack executed on Friday by a Taliban commander at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar (northwestern Pakistan), during the weekly prayer. Three men with explosive vests and weapons entered the grounds of the Imamia mosque,...

The International Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released yesterday its annual report on the situation of freedom of expression in the world. In this document, Ecuador back warded 13 places, ranking 108th out of 180 countries assessed. RSF explains that several...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Thursday they thwarted a “coup attempt” by “a group of officers of the military aviation,” who were already detained and who allegedly would have been financed by the United States. “We have disrupted,...

The Minister of Industries and Productivity, Ramiro Gonzalez, denied that his administration, in charge of the board of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS for its Spanish acronym), had affected in some way in the current crisis of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo...

Through his Twitter account, President Rafael Correa played down the criticism of British comedian John Oliver and considered that the issue “does not deserve one more second of our time.” “John Oliver Subject: much ado about nothing. Those`gringo talk shows´...