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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Committee of Foreign Trade (Comex) decided to eliminate tariffs and quotas for imports of electric cars as well as for the manufacture of CKD (bits and pieces). As a result, between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000 would be the cost of an electric vehicle in Ecuador, said...

The Russian Energy Minister Alexandre Novak said that Russia, Venezuela and Ecuador met yesterday in Moscow to discuss how to stabilize the price of oil, whose fall is currently affecting their economies. According to international information, the meeting would have included...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, said this Friday that the country was still far from peace and there were no guarantees that the cease-fire agreed yesterday at the Minsk summit take effect. “I do not want anyone illusions. And I seem a naive,” Poroshenko said...

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´...

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...