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30-S Two Years of a “Strange” Event

It’s hard to determine exactly what went down on September 30 of 2010, a day in which the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa went to the “Regimiento Quito” to solve the police insurrection. After a heated speech, and gestures that including throwing a tie and saying with a...
Posted On 30 Sep 2012
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IRS Seizes Alvaro Noboa Goods

With police and military officers, IRS officials arrived to Industrial Molinera and Banco del Litoral –both are companies of the Noboa Group- to notify the payment of a 98 million dollars debt that the businessman owes and to seize seven vehicles parked in the Bank. Afterwards...
Posted On 29 Sep 2012
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Dalo Bucaram Revealed that the Embassy of Iran Owes to Cofiec

Dalo Bucaram Revealed that the Embassy of Iran Owes to Cofiec The assemblyman Abdala Bucaram Pulley (member of PRE) pointed out “Why Cofiec has to borrow almost two million dollars to the Embassy of Iran?, additionally he revealed in a report of the Superintendency of Banks to...
Posted On 29 Sep 2012
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Jorge Glas Viejo Did Not Attend the Paternity Test

Judge for Children, Martha Guerrero, established that last Thursday, September 27, blood samples be take (for a paternity test) of Jorge Heriberto Glas Viejo, 72, and the child of eight-months, son of a minor that assures to have been raped by Glas Viejo. The date was yesterday...
Posted On 28 Sep 2012
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PRIAN gets CNE’s Approval

The national director of the Partido Renovador Institucional Accion Nacional (PRIAN), Wilson Sanchez, said today that the political group approved the signature verification process made by the National Ecuadorian Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). PRIAN, leaded by Alvaro...
Posted On 28 Sep 2012
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Rafael Correa is criticized for controversial video

Last Monday a video was uploaded on YouTube in which seven children and a teenager appear, acting as children of Ecuador, praising the government’s image and projects of the current Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa. The video is called “What would you say to the...
Posted On 28 Sep 2012
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Seven potential presidential candidates in Ecuador

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) has not yet formalized the list of political organizations that may participate in the 2013 elections. So far there are seven presidential candidates, but only three have a legally accepted group to sponsor them:...
Posted On 27 Sep 2012
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Correa in favor of GM crops

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said today in an interview with Gama TV, that banning GM crops is a “mistake“. “Genetically modified seeds can quadruple production and take the country’s poorest sectors out of misery” said the president....
Posted On 27 Sep 2012
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Constitutional Court candidates get low grades

QUITO, Ecuador Yesterday at the Eugenio Espejo Convention Center, 19 of the 24 candidates aspiring to be judges of the Constitutional Court, gave a written test to qualify their knowledge on the subject. The test is scored out of 100 points: 30 points (resume), 35 points (written...
Posted On 26 Sep 2012
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Julian Assange will participate in the UN

The Foreign Ministry said today in a statement that the United Nations (UN) will held a forum entitled “The Diplomatic Asylum: strengthening the international human rights system.” The meeting will be led by Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, and, through...
Posted On 26 Sep 2012
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