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The heads of the 12 legislative commissions and officers of the Assembly held a meeting on October 29 with President Rafael Correa and Alianza País officials. The objective was to review the laws that are pending and set priorities until the end of the year. The President of the...

Leopoldo López, Venezuelan opposition leader, today demanded to the court in charge of his case to rule on a recommendation from the UN for his release, to go back to the hearing of his judicial process. “The UN issued statement qualifying of arbitrary my detention and...

Nearly half of the members of the FARC were recruited as minors, as it was revealed yesterday by a new study that seeks to be a “wake up call” on this practice, considered the “most serious” crime produced during armed conflict in Colombia. In response to...

On October 29, authorities of the Judicial and the Government Function called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to “rectify procedures” to treat denunciations against the Ecuadorian State. This, after thehearings conducted on Monday October 27,...

NATO has detected “unusual” Russian aerial maneuvers and “at large scale” on European airspace between Tuesday and Wednesday. The air activity of 15 aircraft of the Russian forces occurred in the airspace over the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, te Atlantic...

Ecuador will receive $ 509 million from China as a financing for the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric. This was expected with the journey made by the Minister of Strategic Sectors, Rafael Poveda, to that country on Tuesday, October 28. The financial institution Eximbank of China...

President Rafael Correa sent a reform to the Law on the National System of Public Contracting, in which he proposes to amend the conditions under which the government acquires real property through expropriations to fund  public works. The Executive proposed that for the fixing...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on October 29 that the increase rate in new cases of Ebola in Liberia is decreasing, which implies its first hopeful statement about the possibility of starting to bring the epidemic under control. “The number of cases in Liberia...

The Presidents of Ecuador and Peru, Rafael Correa and Ollanta Humala, respectively, meet from 09:00 in the framework of the 8th Binational Meeting. They will do this in the province of El Oro, Arenillas, in the south of Ecuador. The topics to be addressed in the bilateral meeting...

The United States through a statement on Wednesday showed “appalled” by reports, according to which, the Syrian government launched bombs on a refugees camp in the Idlib province (northwest). “We are appalled at the information about the attack and the images of...