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After the acquittal in favor of Professor Mery Zamora is notified, her legal defense will file a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian State before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the moral damage caused by the four years of the criminal process followed by...
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Supercom summons written media for alleged violation of Communications Law

The Superintendency of Information and Communication (Supercom for its Spanish acronym) notified the written media EL Universo, El Comercio, La Hora and Hoy, pursuing the complaint filed by the citizen Carlos Vera Quintana. The complaint includes an alleged violation of Article...
Posted On 06 Jun 2014
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Ecuador will donate $ 1 million to the Inter-American Court

Last Thursday, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced a donation of one million dollars for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the General Assembly of the OAS, and at the same time he criticized another organ of the body, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...
Posted On 06 Jun 2014
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Avanza postpones debate on indefinite reelection

Last Wednesday, the militants of the self-proclaimed second electoral force in the country, Avanza, met for more than five hours in Quito, to furthermore achieving three resolutions. The first one is to join the Frente Unido de Izquierda, formed by Alianza PAIS and the socialism...
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Presidents commemorate 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings

U.S. President Barack Obama and French President, Francois Hollande, in the company of twenty heads of state and government commemorated today, June 6, the 70th anniversary of the Allied Disembark that ended the Nazi occupation during World War II on the beaches of Normandy . The...
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Pots & Pans for the environment

Last Thursday the National Assembly of Environment met in the Prometeo Theatre at the Casa de la Cultura in Quito, where about 80 people heard testimony from leaders of 20 organizations in the country regarding mining and oil extraction. Everyone went to the table located in the...
Posted On 06 Jun 2014
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The second debate of Water Law was opened in the plenary of Assembly

“The non-privatization” versus the “de-privatization” was the topic of discussion in the plenary of the Assembly yesterday in the second debate of the Water Act. Carlos Pérez Guartambel, President of the Ecuarunari, opened the debate and said that...
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Malaysia Airlines’s disappeared plane will be search in new area

The searches of the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March with 239 people on board now focus on the “seventh arc” of the Indian Ocean, between latitudes 20 and 39 degrees south, announced the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). According to the agency,...
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Putin and Obama met informally in France

President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, met informally on Friday in te context of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings in France. The conversation, according to Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes took between 10...
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Poroshenko agrees with Putin for a ceasefire

Petro Poroshenko, President-elected of Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin, have agreed this Friday for a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. “I can not do other but welcome the position of Poroshenko about we should put...
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