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Last Wednesday during his regular weekly radio address, the newly sworn in Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot (PSC-MG), said that if the Constitution is amended in the issue of reelection for public offices, either via amendment or by a reform, he will not be a candidate for...

After absolving the process which condemned former lawmaker Mery Zamora to eight years in prison on charges of sabotage and terrorism, Johnny Ayluardo, Judge of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym) received the notification of the...

On Thursday, the European Union published on its official bulletin that it will extend sanctions against Syria until June 1, 2015, which involve all the oil embargo and the freezing of funds and shares of 179 people and 53 entities close to the regime Bashar al-Assad. The EU also...

A further period of fifteen days, have the economic movement managers of the last political campaign who still do not have the inflows and outflows liquidation of electoral expenditure, obligation established in the code of democracy. In total, the National Electoral Council...

  According to own information, former Assemblyman Galo Lara would have come out of Panama and would be now in Costa Rica, as stated by Prosecutor Galo Chiriboga in a radio interview yesterday. Given this possibility, Chiriboga said that the documentation for his extradition...

By their alleged authorship in an offence of embezzlement, seven former executives of the Banco Nacional de Fomento (BNF), Guayaquil branch, face an appeal to trial with pre-trial detention order. Such crime would have affected by nearly a million dollars to various courts of the...

The former contractor of the U.S. Agency Edward Snowden, who leaked details of a massive intelligence-gathering program in his country, said in an interview with U.S. television that  he “was trained as a spy.” “I was trained as a spy in the traditional sense of...

The owners of buildings registered in the Metropolitan District of Quito, whose property tax values were “recalculated” can do the pending claim or review on the balconies of the zonal administrations of the Municipality of Quito services. The properties associated...

After the idea of the Maritime Sector, Port and River Plan created by the Ministry of Transport and Public Works in conjunction with the Under-Secretariat of Ports and Maritime and River Transport, guilds from shipping companies, public and private ports met to discuss their...

Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the U.S. State Roberta Jacobson postponed to July her visit to Ecuador that was scheduled for next week due to scheduling problems. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced today via twitter of the postponement of...