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The Court of Justice of Sucumbios rejected the provision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, an Ecuadorian ruling ordering the U.S. oil company Chevron to pay 18,000 million dollars as compensation for polluting Amazon area. “Recognizing that the award is...

Rafael Correa‘s government is promoting the Organic Law for the creation of the Council of Inequality, which will be discussed at the next National Assembly, said the Ecuadorian president during his weekly report. Correa had a meeting earlier in the week where he presented...

Lawyers for the defense of President Rafael Correa expressed their disagreement with the ruling issued by the fifth civil Judge Maria Mercedes Portilla,  against journalists Juan Carlos Calderón and Christian Zurita. They also requested an appeal of a judgment that orderedan...

This morning citizens of Guayaquil and workers of newspaper EL UNIVERSO gathered in a pacific protest against the last decision of the Ecuadorian National Court, which rejected the appeal of this media in the trial brought by the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for libel...

Penal Chamber judges of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), Wilson Merino, Paul Iñiguez and Jorge Blum took an hour and forty minutes to ratify the sentences of the first and second ruling by condemning three newspaper directors to jail and paying a fine...

After hearing the ratification against El Universo Newspaper, it is hoped that the Human Rights Commission issues precautionary measures to stop the implementation of the sentence, condemning the newspaper managers (brothers Nicolas, Cesar and Carlos Perez) and former editor of...

Panama President, Ricardo Martinelli announced that he just gave asylum to Carlos Perez Barriga, Director of newspaper El Universo. The official announcement was made via his Twitter account. “I just gave asylum to journalist of newspaper El Universo, Carlos Perez Barriga,...

Two directors of the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo will remain out of his country to denounce before international organizations the sentence of the demand made by the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. Nicolas and Cesar Perez will not request political asylum like his...

Yesterday El Universo Case had an unexpected turn. According to information released by that newspaper, the defense attorney Joffre Campaña read a letter written by judge Monica Encalada to the prosecutor of Guayas, Antonio Gagliardo. In the letter, the judge said, “the...

At 9:02, the audience appeal of El Universo newspaper began. In the room, we could see many officials of the regime. Including Francisco Latorre, advisor of President Correa, who weeks ago called on the Prosecutor of Guayas, Assembly María Augusta Calle and Pedro de la Cruz,...