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A year ago the Pachakutik former asemblyman Cléver Jimenez and Fernando Villavicencio (his advisor) are fugitives from the Ecuadorianjustice.They left their homes when the National Court of Justice made the conviction of 18 months in prison for libeling against the Ecuadorian...

The government of President Dilma Rousseff announced this Wednesday a series of measures to battle impunity and corruption in Brazil, in the midst of major corruption scandal in the state company Petrobras. “We are a government that does not compromise on corruption and we...

A total of 22 people, including 17 tourists of six nationalities, died this Wednesday during a terrorist attack executed by alleged jihadists in Tunisia, which also left 24 wounded. Besides the tourists (of Italian, Spanish, South African, Japanese, German and Polish...

Productive sectors will deliver to the government the new lists of certain products they believe should not be affected by the safeguard applied by Ecuador since last March 11 to 2,800 subheadings of imported products (32% of the total). Luis Alberto Salvador, Vice President of...

Representatives of the Ecuadorian civil society asked yesterday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to visit Ecuador in order to verify the status of certain rights and intervene with the Government to ensure their exercise and fulfillment. This request...

Gelacio Mora, common prosecutor of the referendum, proposed by 396 organizations of the called ‘tejido social’ (social tissue) of Guayaquil, and other representatives went yesterday to the National Electoral Council for the delivery of forms to collect signatures....

On March 6 a document through which a safeguard BOP is set to 2961 tariff items was issued. The surcharge established is between 5% and 45%. Some unions criticize the inclusion of raw material needed for their activities and requested a revision of the list. The Association of...

The block of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) will meet this Tuesday in Caracas to assess the tensions between the US and Venezuela, and define joint positions for the VII Summit of the Americas next month. President Nicolas Maduro will meet with his...

Joffre Campaña retracted his statements, with which the trial that the Interior Minister, José Serrano, followed against the attorney for alleged libel was filed. Campaña asked the trial judge to archive the process after retracting himself. He first did it in his Twitter account...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said yesterday it is expected that the anual increase in the supply of crude from its competitors, especially the United States shall be reduced by 58% (from 2.04 to 0,850,000 barrels per day) in 2015, because of the...