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Elections are suspended in Lomas de Sargentillo

 The elections were suspended in Lomas de Sargentillo, Guayas, by order of the Electoral contentious Tribunal (TCE). The Agency met Friday and approved the request of Segundo Navarrete Buenos,candidate for mayor of the canton by the Democratic Center-country Alliance. There are...
Posted On 23 Mar 2014
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China spreads possible photograph of missing plane

Yesterday, China released a photograph taken by a satellite of a floating object in the South of the Indian Ocean, which may belong to the flight MH370 that covered the route between Kuala Lumpur and the Chinese capital disappearing with 239 people on board. The photo, taken on...
Posted On 23 Mar 2014
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Government takes up campaign in favor of exploiting the Yasuni

It is the second time that the national Government is pushing a media campaign in favor of the oil exploitation of the block ITT, in one part of the Yasuni Park. The first was between August and September of 2013. Since last Thursday is transmitted on television a spot in which...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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Judge sentence to prison to legislator Cléver Jiménez

The national judge Lucy Blacio yesterday issued ballots of imprisonment to the Assemblyman of Pachakutik Cléver Jiménez; his Adviser, Fernando Villavicencio, and political activist Carlos Figueroa. The police headquarters should locate the sentenced and, once apprehended,...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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IESS changes the resolution of compulsory affiliation to voluntary

The Board of Directors of IESS repealed the resolution 464 that created the figure of compulsory affiliation for people without dependent relationship, and volunteer for Ecuadorians abroad, which generated criticism from professionals, workers unions and the Assembly. On its...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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The Ecuadorian banana will be exported again to Brazil

The Government of Brazil eliminated yesterday, after 17 years, sanitary restrictions that existed for the importation of Ecuadorian banana. The Minister of foreign trade, Francisco Rivadeneira, thanked his crew, the Ambassador of Ecuador at Brazil, Horacio Sevilla, and the...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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Mujica requests to US. release Cuban prisoners

The Uruguayan President José Mujica revealed yesterday that in Exchange for receiving prisoners from Guantanamo, at the request of the United States, he called on Washington to release Cuban prisoners accused of spying in that country. “It is a request for a human rights...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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Gastón Duzac is included in the Cofiec case

The indictment issuing audience on the Cofiec case, for the $ 800,000 irregularly given to the Argentine businessman Gaston Duzac, will be held on Monday, March 24th. Initially Duzac was not involved, and now the Attorney includes it in the investigated group, which rise from 13...
Posted On 21 Mar 2014
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Constitutional Court accepts appeal for protection submitted by Chevron

The Constitutional Court accepted yesterday the extraordinary appeal for protection filed by Chevron Corp. Chevron alleges multiple violations of constitutional guarantees, so last December, It requested the organism to reverse the verdict of a judge in Lago Agrio that sentenced...
Posted On 21 Mar 2014
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Cesar Verduga shall comply house arrest

Former Government Minister Cesar Verduga (1997-1998), will have to comply house arrest, because of his age, and the ban on leaving the country, as precautionary measures, once the Judge of the National Court of Justice, Ximena Veintimilla, lift the order of preventive detention...
Posted On 21 Mar 2014
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