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Patiño anticipates Correa’s enrollment to reelection

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, anticipated through his Twitter account, the eventual official registration of President Rafael Correa to re-election in the February 2013 Elections. Patiño, who is also a member of the ruling Movement, Alianza PAIS, said the registration would...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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Duzac Did Not Gave his Testimony in Argentina

Last October 23, the prosecutor Maria Susana Rodriguez asked the Argentinean businessman Gaston Duzac, to show up in the Ecuadorian embassy to give his testimony about the investigation made about the COFIEC case, which investigates possible illegal activities in a loan. The...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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Actors and Actresses in assembly lists

It is increasingly common to see national television personalities, become candidates for National Assembly: Actress Claudia Camposano, better known as “Rosita, the taxi driver,” filmed yesterday her latest show to engage in pre-campaign as Assembly member for...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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Paco Moncayo avoided presidential candidacy by Ruptura 25

Legislator Paco Moncayo, revealed that his approach to Ruptura 25 Movement is only as an affiliate, ie, without political representivity or electoral purposes, but by an awareness of principles. However, he did not rule running for assembly member or doing it in Ruptura 25, and...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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Alvaro Noboa postpones registration of his candidacy

During a press conference via Skype, lawyer and businessman Alvaro Noboa, confirmed his decision to postpone his candidacy if necessary until the deadline which is on November 15th to dedicate some time for alliances with parties and movements, which considers it essential to...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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David Murdock Supports the Project City of Knowledge of Correa

The owner of the multinational Dole and financer of the North Carolina Research Institute, David Murdock, stated his interest in supporting the Project Yachay, City of Knowledge, which is being pushed by the Government of Ecuador. Murdock met last Tuesday with the Ecuadorian...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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Judge Burbano Began Judicial Process on Case Duzac

Omar Unda and Roberto Sandoval, former members of the COFIEC board were detained last Monday for their relation with the Duzac case, who was supposed to be transferred yesterday to the Provisional Detention Centre. This order was given by the Judge of Criminal Guarantees of the...
Posted On 01 Nov 2012
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COFIEC Never Had the Guarantees of Duzac’s loan

The alleged deposit certificates  of Rocafuerte Insurance,  which guaranteed the credit of $ 800 thousand granted by COFIEC to the Argentinean Gaston Duzac were never in the bank, which belongs to the Management Unit of Public Right (Ugedep for its Spanish acronym). That’s...
Posted On 31 Oct 2012
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New Constitutional Court is defined

Yesterday, after four years and ten days of a transition period, the Assessment Committee appointed the nine judges who will join the Constitutional Court (CC) until 2021. The new CC will be presented today at a national radio and television broadcast. The National Assembly shall...
Posted On 31 Oct 2012
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Citizens confrontation for the placement of a bust of “Che” in Guayaquil

Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of people gathered at the bottom of Santa Ana Port, at Barrio las Peñas, to  express their anger and others to support  the placement of a bust in honor of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who commanded the Cuban Revolution.  The majority group...
Posted On 31 Oct 2012
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