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Yesterday, judges from the Second Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice refused the appeal presented by Emilio Palacio, former editor of Review newspaper El Universo, in the slander complaint against President Rafael Correa. With this resource Palacio had chance to...

Former Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad (1998-2000), who is asylum in the U.S., faces a custody order because of the issuance of two decrees ordering the freezing and banking holiday in 1999. The accusers, former socialist MP Victor Granda and Anti-Corruption Commission former...

Yesterday, the National Assembly approved with 63 votes the reform bill draft to the Organic Law on Elections and Political Organizations, from the Code of Democracy. The main changes comprise: -Election of the Assembly members in the first round along with the presidential to...

Legislator Cesar Montufar, from Concertación Nacional Movement, was sued by the Ecuadorian president’s attorney, Gutemberg Vera. Vera added that this criminal case does not require the endorsement of the National Assembly, because of the parliamentary immunity that it gives to...

Colonel Cesar Carrion, director of the Police Hospital during the events of September 30, 2010 (30S) in Ecuador was ceased to functions by the General Council of the National Police for undermining the prestige and honor of the Police during the 30S events. The notification of...

In an interview with “Agencia Andes,” the Coordinating Minister of Politics, Betty Tola said “with all certainty,” that the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa will go for the re-election in the upcoming presidential elections. In declarations made two weeks ago, the president...

In an exclusive interview to Ecuador Times, Attorney Vicente Taiano, Assemblyman of the Ecuadorian political party PRIAN, explained the current situation of the approach of a new amendment to the Organic Law of the Legislative Branch (LOFL) and the Organic Law on Elections....

After writing in his Twitter account to be willing to withdraw of his immunity as an Assemblyman, Cesar Montufar makes a formal request to the Assembly. “(…) I’ll answer Correa’s challenge of withdrawing my immunity (…),” wrote Montufar. In one of...

Alberto Dahik, former Ecuadorian Vice President in the government of Sixto Duran-Ballen, must be submitted today to the secretariat of the First Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice (CNJ). In compliance with the judge’s Hernán Ulloa decision, Dahik´s preventive...

Yesterday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed a complaint before the Inter-American Court against Ecuador due to the arbitrary dismissal of eight members of the Constitutional Court by the Congress in November 2004. In a statement, the Commission...