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After Jaime Mantilla Anderson, director of Daily Hoy was sentenced to three months in prison and a $25 fine due to defamation claims. However, this morning the plaintiff, Pedro Delgado, the current president of Central Bank, withdrew of the trial against him. Through a press...

Yesterday, during an interview with reporters in Montevideo, Uruguay, President Rafael Correa said that the Ecuadorian press was an “instrument” of political groups seeking the overthrow of the government in the police revolt of the last September 30th (30-S)....

On Wednesday, the Chevron Corporation asked the Ecuadorian authorities to investigate the conduct of plaintiffs’ lawyers and a judge who determined compensation of 18,000 million dollars in a case of oil pollution. The oil company sent a letter to the general attorney of...

The director of newspaper Diario Hoy, Jaime Mantilla Anderson, was sentenced to three months of imprisonment and the payment of a $25 fine. The trial was performed by a demand imposed by Pedro Delgado Campaña in 2009 due to defamation. The Tenth Court of Criminal Guarantees...

This morning the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived to Quito to meet the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. After the formal greeting of the Armed Forces, Colombian President addressed the Nation in a brief statement. Santos added: “(…) I did not want to...

One day after Antonio Gagliardo, prosecutor of Guayas, responsive declaration of temporary judge Juan Paredes, the adviser of the President, Francisco Latorre, came to talk to Gagliardo. Latorre took the elevator up to the tenth floor of the Posecutor bulding, where the office of...

In his Saturday National TV broadcast, the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, said the registration in the Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI) seeks to prevent the “perverted” use of the terms ‘30s‘ and ‘prohibido olvidar‘. “We...

Temporary judge Juan Paredes gave statements at the hearing held yesterday in the District Attorney within the process of preliminary investigation against him. There he admitted that a flash drive was used for the sentence against El Universo newspaper, on 20 July. According to...

Yesterday, December 15, Juan Carlos Solines spokesman of political movement ” Concertación”, presented to the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI for its Spanish acronym), a challenge to stop the Ecuadorian Government that intends to trademark the...

This morning the temporary judge of the 15th Court of Criminal Guarantees of Guayas, Juan Paredes, testified before the District Attorney in the process of preliminary investigation against him for misrepresentation and prevarication filed by the court prosecutor of El Universo...