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The most influential paper in the world, The New York Times condemned in one of their leading articles the trial against El Universo newspaper. The article with the title, “An Assault on Democracy” calls to all the democratic leaders of the hemisphere to pronounce themselves and...

Political members and police officers accused by the government for attempting a coup d’état on September 30 of 2010, are angry with the investigative mission made by the general secretary, Ban Ki-moon. Their contempt started when the mission led by Oscar Fernandez lacked of...

This morning Dalo Bucaram, National Assemblyman for PRE party, ask the National Court of Justice (CNJ) to annul the judgments against her father, former Ecuadorian president, Abdala Bucaram Ortiz. “Unfortunately the political fear of the president (Rafael) Correa, about...

The list of winners of the new judges of the National Court of Justice was read in less than two minutes. Twelve men and nine women reached the court after competing nearly five months among 666 participants. Among the list of the 21 new judges are Carmen Salgado, mother of the...

One day after President Rafael Correa reiterated his offer to drop his lawsuit against El Universo newspaper on condition for the newspaper to retract and say “the truth” about what happened on September 30 (30S), the newspaper published an editorial in which it...

The date set for the cassation hearing of El Universo newspaper is in the hands of the Second Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice. Yesterday the permanent deputy judges Luis Quiroz, Cesar Salinas, and Enrique Pacheco denied the challenge request made by the defense...

Yesterday the Inter-American Press Association (SIP for its Spanish acronym) expressed their concern regarding the electoral reform bill presented by the Ecuadorian Government. The organization warned that such bill would “affect the work of the press and the right of the...

In order to analyze the events that occurred after the Ecuadorian police revolt on September 30, 2010 (30-S), a mission of the United Nations (UN) arrived yesterday to Ecuador. Oscar Fernandez Taranco, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs of the UN and Elio Tamburi,...

The defense of El Universo seeks that the new National Court of Justice (CNJ by its Spanish acronym) be the one that works on the process against the Perez brother, directors of the newspaper, along with the former opinion editor, Emilio Palacio, were sentenced to three years in...

Yesterday the president of the Assembly, Fernando Cordero (AP) had a meeting with the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, to see if there was a way to avoid that the document that prohibits the media to make coverage’s and investigations during the electoral campaign period,...