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Chevron’s demand against lobbying group was authorized

A federal judge in New York authorized a pending demand for Chevron against a Washington lobbying group for their role in the alleged fraud by the case of contamination in Ecuador, a complaint which “is unfounded” according to this lobby group. District Judge, Lewis...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Chile could suffer an earthquake of greater magnitude, according to experts

Due to the energy accumulated by 137 years at the friction of Nazca and South American plates, on the sea floor, Chilean and foreign experts said that the 8.2 degrees magnitude earthquake that affected yesterday to Chile, is not the biggest earthquake expected in the area. 60...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Mera exhorts Cléver Jimenez to apologize to Correa

“If he apologizes to the Government for the barbarity he made, I will personally ask the President to consider his apology … I would do everything possible for the President to do so,” said Alexis Mera, Legal Secretary of the Presidency during an interview at a...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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FIFA sanctioned with transfer prohibition to FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona shall not sign up any domestic or foreign player until the summer of 2015 after the sanction that this Wednesday communicated the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for the registration and irregular recruitment of players under 18 from 2009 to 2013. The article published...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Chile suffers earthquake of 8.2 in the Richter scale

An earthquake of 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale and long lasting has occurred in northern Chile, at 20.46 local time. The epicenter of the earthquake was generated in the sea, 89 kilometers in the southwest from the town of Cuya, in the Tarapacá Region of northern Chile. The...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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The Extra newspaper apologizes for ‘ Sexy Monday’

The Superintendent of Information and Communication (Supercom) sanctioned for the second time the Extra newspaper and obliges it to publish a public apology in its printed and digital edition by making a “sexist and stereotyped” treatment of the figure of the woman....
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Precautionary measures in favor of Jimenez will be consulted to the Court of Human Rights

The Government is analyzing to request an “advisory opinion” to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court), to clarify whether the precautionary measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in favor of Assemblyma...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Assembly filed 36 draft laws

During the accountability of the President of the Assembly, Gabriela Rivadeneira (AP), it was revealed, among other things, that the number of projects filed last year in the organism was 36. “Legislators already are no more clerks of the oligarchy to make piecework laws...
Posted On 01 Apr 2014
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Correa will travel to the U.S. to lectures

President Rafael Correa will travel next Sunday to the United States, where he plans to give keynote speeches at the universities of Harvard, MIT and Yale. At Harvard, he will present on April 9th at the JFK Forum, on the campus of that University in the state of Massachusetts....
Posted On 01 Apr 2014
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Marx Carrasco seeks consensus between employers and employees for a new Union

Carlos Marx Carrasco, as new Minister of Labor Affairs, will maintain approaches with the labor unions in the country to reach several agreements, among those, the creation of the Unique Central of workers (CUT). Just as in the coming days he will convene to members for a...
Posted On 01 Apr 2014
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