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Diego Garcia was appointed as the new State General Attorney

The Plenary of the National Assembly sworn in on February 5 to Diego Garcia as the new State General Attorney . The president of the Assembly Gabriela Rivadeneira took the oath. The Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (Cpccs) notified to the Legislature the...
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Entrepreneurs congratulates Ecuador by lifting the safeguard measure

Following the announcement of Ecuador to lift the safeguard measures or tariffs imposed on Colombian and Peruvian products since last January 5, entrepreneurs from the three countries expressed satisfaction with the decision. In a joint press conference they congratulated the...
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The two engines of the TransAsia plane failled before the crash, according to air safety council

The two engines of the ATR 72-600 aircraft of the TransAsia company, which crashed on Wednesday, January 4 against an elevated highway and then fell into a river in Taiwan killing at least 35 people, failed before the accident. This was indicated on Friday, February 6 by the...
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Nisman Case: Former Argentine intelligence agent is summoned to testify

The former Argentine intelligence agent Antonio ‘Jaime’ Stiuso will be called to testify, said yesterday the prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the death of Alberto Nisman, who would had worked closely with the former agent to acc...
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Syrian air offensive leaves 82 dead in Damascus

An offensive of the Syrian Air Force left 82 dead in a district of the opposition in the outskirts of Damascus, in retaliation to rocket attacks by insurgents that hit the center of the capital, said on Friday a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which...
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IACourtHR judges Ecuador by “extrajudicial execution” of a minor in 1992

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday held a hearing for the alleged extrajudicial execution of José Luis Ibarra, 16 years old, by an Ecuadorian police officer, a fact that happened in 1992. According to the complaint submitted by the Inter-American...
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Ecuador will eliminate safeguards on Colombian exports

Yesterday, Colombian media announced that the exchange safeguard that Ecuador set to Colombia, which is in force since January 5, would be removed this February 27th. The information would have been released by the Ministry of Commerce of Colombia. “Ecuador pledged that...
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Commission will review report of the Comptroller as part of the Dhruv inquiry process

The Legislative Oversight Commission will be devoted to read the results of the special investigations of the Comptroller General of the State about the acquisition of seven Dhruv helicopters -of which four have crashed- to sketch out a line of research of the topic. The...
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Import quotas for cellphones that telephone companies maintain would be made more flexible

Until March is expected to define the policy to ease the cell phones import quota system for mobile companies, said the Coordinating Minister of Production, Richard Espinosa. “We have a month and a half to define the policy we will make more flexible,” said the...
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Group anticipates popular consultation of the Mayor of Guayaquil

A group of neighborhood leaders and former employees of public companies grouped in the Citizen Observatory of Public Services and Citizens Organizations Coalition for Guayaquil, presented a proposal of popular consultation to the city on Wednesday, February 4. The query of this...
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