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Secom: “Without a prior exam of the Comptroller´s office the criminal process (of the McSquared case) can not be undertaken”

Concerning the nonattendance of the head of the National Communications Secretariat (Secom), Fernando Alvarado, at the hearing convened by the Prosecution to submit his version in the McSquared case inquiry, the Secom explained that “without a prior exam of the Comptroller...
Posted On 24 Oct 2014
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Ecuadorian lawyers will meet with the IACHR to discuss justice in their country

The National Federation of Ecuadorian Lawyers and groups of Ecuadorian citizens will participate in a hearing before the members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to expose their arguments about the independence of justice in Ecuador. The meeting is part of...
Posted On 24 Oct 2014
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Brazilian magazine Veja claims that Rousseff were aware of diverts of money on Petrobras

The election campaign was stirred in Brazil on Friday with an early edition of the opposition magazine Veja accusing President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, of being aware of millionaire diverts in the state company Petrobras. “They knew...
Posted On 24 Oct 2014
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Azuay and Guayas advance in resolving border disputes

The reports on boundary disputes between the provinces Guayas and Azuay will be ready on Tuesday, October 28. These are results of the advances of the technical commissions that were formed to solve this issue, reported on October 23 the Prefect of Guayas, Jimmy Jairala. The...
Posted On 24 Oct 2014
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Close election campaigns in Uruguay

Multitudinous street acts closed on the evening of Thursday, October 23 the electoral campaigns of political parties in Uruguay towards national elections on Sunday, in which 2.6 million people will elect a new president and will renew the bicameral Congress. The ruling Frente...
Posted On 24 Oct 2014
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Government prepares response to Human Rights Watch report

The Minister of Justice, Ledy Zúñiga, announced on October 22 that the government is preparing a response to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, to clarify that there was no torture against the students arrested in protests of last September, as indicated by the NGO in a...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Arrested a new intruder who tried to enter the White House

Security Forces of the American White House reported that a 23 year old young man, identified as Dominic Adesanya, jumped over the fence that surrounds the home of President Barack Obama without entering the building. The man climbed the fence near 19:15 local time and was...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Government: Private telephone companies would pay new royalties rather than reducing profits to their workers

The Autonomous Decentralized Governments Commission presented on Wednesday, 22 October a proposal for that private telephone companies pay new royalties to the state . This would be included in the Draft Organic Law of Telecommunications. The article proposes that telephone...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Mayor Nebot notified that popular consultation process will start in November

Mayor Jaime Nebot notified on October 22 that the process for a popular consultation of local character will start in November, in which citizens will be asked about the rise in bus fares and transportation subsidies within the transitcompetence by the Municipality of Guayaquil....
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Brazilian Federal Police capture alleged Colombian drug trafficker

The Brazilian Federal Police (PF) captured this Wednesday in the city of Boa Vista, capital of the northern and Amazonian state of Roraima, the alleged Colombian drug trafficker “Marquitos Figueroa,” according to authorities. Marcos de Jesús Figueroa, alias...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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