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Assembly Commission eliminates media lynching and Supercom in report on LOC

Ecuadornews:   The Commission of Collective Rights of the National Assembly, which analyzes the reforms to the Organic Law of Communication (LOC), approved this Wednesday, July 25, the repeal of the figure of media lynching and the Superintendence of Communication (Supercom)...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Chancellor receives IACHR team for the case of murdered journalists

Ecuadornews:   The acting Ecuadorian chancellor, Andrés Terán, today received the special team of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that follows up on the case of the press team kidnapped last March at the border and murdered in captivity in Colombia. The...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Édison Lanza: ‘Communication is not considered a public service’

Ecuadornews:     Édison Lanza, Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), announced that the Ecuadorian Government received the response it had hoped for on the abolition of the Constitution of the concept of...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Jefferson Pérez: ‘We always aim for the highest goal …’

Ecuadornews:   Today marks 26 years since Ecuador won its first and so far only Olympic gold medal. That achievement was from Jefferson Perez, who says he had prepared in the academic and business to assume a new challenge: political activity, with a movement called Renace....
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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CFN loan placement increased 61% in first half

Ecuadornews:   The National Financial Corporation (CFN Acronym in Spanish) had a significant growth in the first half of 2018 in terms of credit approvals in more than 61% with respect to the first period of 2017. The amount reaches $ 365.62 million with 482 operations;...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Constitutional Court clarifies the scope of the ruling on adolescent sexual rights

Ecuadornews:   The Constitutional Court (CC) issued a statement clarifying the scope of the sentence in which it states that adolescents have the right to enjoy a “satisfactory and risk-free sexual life” and to decide on their reproductive life “in a free,...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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The climate will advance mango harvest

Ecuadornews:   Mango Foundation indicated that in the 2017 campaign the country exported 13’685,119 boxes of fruit, 1% more than in 2016. In August, Guayaquil will host the VII International Congress of the sector. Although the annual harvest of the Ecuadorian...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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I thought I was going to lose everything, says Ecuadorian

Ecuadornews:   On Tuesday night, after 54 days imprisoned, the Ecuadorian Pablo Villavicencio, detained by the Immigration services after delivering a pizza in a military base, was released. Villavicencio tearful fused in hugs with his daughters and his wife outside the...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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3,000 hectares of mangrove were reforested in 10 years

Ecuadornews:   Ecuador will serve as a model for countries such as Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia. This fragile ecosystem is constituted as protection against climatic events. Since 1994, mangroves have been protected in Ecuador. They are recognized as a prohibited species...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Vice President of the IACHR does not know about the request for precautionary measures in favor of Correa

Ecuadornews:   The vice president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, said she has no information about the request of former president Rafael Correa for the agency to grant him precautionary measures in the face of the...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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