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Venezuelan opposition suspends dialogue with Maduro

Last Tuesday at a press conference, the executive secretary of the Venezuelan opposition alliance Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), Ramon Guillermo Aveledo said that the dialogue initiated last month with the government of Nicolas Maduro is now “stuck” over the...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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Colombian prosecutors reject Uribe’s recusal

The Prosecutor General, Eduardo Montealegre, solved the recusal brought against him and Jorge Perdomo (deputy prosecutor) on Tuesday by former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, as part of the investigation being conducted into the alleged entry of illegal money (2 million dollars) to...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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Relatives of kidnapped girls in Nigeria have identified them in a video

Relatives and friends of some of the 276 girls abducted in the Nigerian village of Chibok, by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, were able to identify the video released by the terrorist militia last Monday. “All the young people in the video were identified and they...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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Turkish mine blast leaves 238 dead so far

The corpses rescued from the univen mine, yesterday (Tuesday, May 13) in western Turkey, already rise to 238, while others 120 miners may still be trapped, according to advanced data given today today by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who promised to investigate...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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There are doubts on mortgage credit funding

After the president Rafael Correa stated the measure that allowed real estate companies and users to do legal proceedings previous obtaining a mortgage credit through the Bank of IESS (Biess), questions on how would the values would be financed appeared.  Home sellers said that...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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Patricio Baca is the new Head of the TCE

Patricio Baca Mancheno is now in charge of the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE), after that Catalina Castro Llerena  resigned for personal matters last Thursday, according to a letter. That same day, there was a plenary session to take a resolution.  The Vice Presidency is...
Posted On 14 May 2014
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Correa travels to Chile to meet Bachelet and receive Honoris Causa

The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced yesterday that today he will travel to Chile to comply with a schedule of activities that includes a meeting with the elected President, Michelle Bachelet, and to address academic activities. Correa’s visit is the first of...
Posted On 13 May 2014
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Argentina and Chile retake bilateral relations

The Argentina and Chile presidents have given on Monday in Buenos Aires a new step in their bilateral relations with the announcement of two major infrastructure projects, and their commitment to expedite the resolution of outstanding issues. Michelle Bachelet and Cristina...
Posted On 13 May 2014
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YASunidos continues on legal struggle over signatures

During the next days the environmental group YASunidos will present its challenge resources to the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) to reactivate its request for a referendum, to prevent the oil exploitation of the ITT fields in the Yasuni National Park....
Posted On 13 May 2014
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Growing trade between UE and Latin America

The commercial Exchange between Latin America and the Caribbean with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe experiences an upward growth worldwide, according to a study commissioned by the EU-LAC Foundation, presented yesterday in Warsaw. Despite the many obstacles that...
Posted On 13 May 2014
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