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Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, today accused the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of “inquisitive” and said it has gone beyond its duties when they issued injunctions in El Universo newspaper case. The foreign minister met with six...

Next Thursday Human Rights Organizations and Ecuadorian journalists will meet with members of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), to continue with the debate of free speech in Ecuador. Cesar Ricaurte and Mauricio Alarcon, Delegates from Fundamedios, along with...

The next two weeks will be critical for the project of the media bill, criticized by the opposition and a sector of the public opinion. The president of the Ecuadorian Assembly, Fernando Cordero, announced that until the first week of April the final document of the bill would be...

With their thumbs up as a victory sign, the leaders of the Indigenous Nationalities Confederation of Ecuador (Conaie for its Spanish acronym, Humberto Cholango, and Delfin Tenesaca arrived to the park El Arbolito, leading thousands of indigenous after a five hour walk. The march...

The strategy for entering Quito, Ecuador is a secret of the directors of the political party Indigenous Nationalities Confederation of Ecuador (Conaie for its Spanish acronym). To avoid that the information gets leaked to the government they will keep to themselves the time and...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa decided to pardon two soldiers convicted of the failed coup of September 30, 2010 (30-S). Yesterday, the President signed the executive orders 1108 and 1109, in granting “forgiveness” to  police Jaime Vinicio Paucar and Luis...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, caused controversy in an interview for Spanish Television (TVE), after putting under suspicion the funding that the NGO Human Rights Watch (HWR) receives and revealing that his brother Fabricio still keeps contracts with the state. Correa...

Several reactions generated the words said by President Rafael Correa in an interview on Spanish television TVE. Several digital media reproduced last night the statements given by José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for the Human Rights Watch (HRW) to EFE in Washington....

The name of this Ecuadorian, Jorge Redroban, first appeared on February 9, when the Ecuadorian Chancellor Ricardo Patiño announced that the Italian police discovered 40 kilos of liquid cocaine in a diplomatic suitcase, later known as the “narco-suitcase.” Redroban is one of the...

The exit of the diplomatic suitcase (narco-suitcase) from the Foreign Office was registered in a paper written by hand. The one-page document was emitted on February 16 by Centre of Canine Police (CAC for its Spanish acronym) confirmed that the suitcase was indeed in the Foreign...