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El Universo Case: New Investigation to Judge Paredes’ Computer was Ordered by the District Attorney

Last Friday the district attorney of Guayas, Antonio Gagliardo, accepted the request made by the defence of Newspaper El Universo. Now the Court will investigate the hard drive of the computer used by Courthouse number 15th. The technical report was scheduled for last Friday, but...
Posted On 12 Sep 2011
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All Ecuadorian Schools Will Be Unisex, Announced Correa

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced that all public schools of Ecuador will be unisex. “In century XXI it’s impossible in public education to have schools for women and men separately, it is an anachronism. So my dear Gloria Vidal, Minister of Education, you...
Posted On 12 Sep 2011
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El Universo Case: Hard Drive Copy Was Prevented in Three Court Divisions

On Monday the Judicial Council prevented cloning hard disks of the three criminal courts of Guayas in charge of El Universo company C.A. case. The order given by the judge of the Children and Adolescents’ court, Julio Sanchez, was supposed to be accomplished ​​this morning in the...
Posted On 12 Sep 2011
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Hearing on “Big Brother” Case Received No Conciliation

Yesterday, the 5th Civil Court of Pichincha took place the hearing against journalists Christian Zurita and Juan Carlos Calderón, both authors of “El Gran Hermano” (Big Brother) book, in which in which we could not establish any conciliation. Alembert Vera, President...
Posted On 10 Sep 2011
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Vera Requested to Revoke the Change of Date

Alembert Vera, attorney of the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, revealed that he had requested to revoke the document that asked to change the hearing date of newspaper El Universo for October 4. Vera pointed out that several irregularities were found in the document, like a...
Posted On 09 Sep 2011
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Democratic Group Started to Collect Signatures

The movement “La Concertacion” started to gather businessman, scholars, former government officials, and current member of the opposition to propose a democratic alternative for the country. Yesterday, its founders began the process to collect signatures, in ord...
Posted On 09 Sep 2011
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USA Approved a System that Benefits Ecuadorian Exports

The House of Representatives of the United States Congress approved the extension of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the largest program of commercial preference in the USA. Nathalie Cely, the Ministry Coordinator of Production informed through its twitter account,...
Posted On 09 Sep 2011
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Campaña Presented in Court a Copy of the Hard Drive

Joffre Campaña, the legal representative of El Universo newspaper, presented himself today to the district attorney of Guayas, Antonio Gagliardo, to testity his version on the accusation he filed against temporary judge Juan Paredes. Last week Gagliardo began the investigation...
Posted On 08 Sep 2011
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Alembert Vera: The Hard Drive Copy was Obtained Illegally

Alembert Vera, Ecuadorian president’s attorney, pointed out that the Court is the only institution allowed to order a report of technical experts from the computer of Courthouse 15th. Vera stated, “the hard drive was obtained illegally and must not be admitted on any...
Posted On 08 Sep 2011
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Ricardo Lagos and Baltasar Garzon will be Observers of the Judicial Reform

Chilean president Ricardo Lagos and Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon will be observers in the judicial reform that is being held in Ecuador, said today Tania Arias, a member of the Judicial Council of Transition (CJT for its Spanish acronym). “We are coordinating the...
Posted On 08 Sep 2011
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