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President Rafael Correa and the UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon will lead a meeting to promote a plan in Ecuador against Global Warming. The event would be performed on September 23 in New York. Ivonne Baki, the responsible of the Yasuni-ITT initiative, informed to the foreign...

Ecuadorian opposition parties blocked the appointment of Tania Arias as the government party delegate to be part of the Judicial Council of Transition with 63 votes against her. The Government has only managed to gather 52 votes. The session was set at 15:00, as planned. The...

With the publication of the Ecuadorian referendum results in the Official Register, the Government began to organize the first activities that the new Judicial Council members are expected to do as soon as they arrive to the institution. Yesterday, Minis...

The results of the Referendum and the Popular Consultation performed last May 7 in Ecuador, were finally published this Wednesday July 13, 2011 in the Official Registry supplement number 490. The results were sent to the National Editor, who printed 1,000 papers of it to be...

This afternoon, reporter and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo, Emilio Palacio Urrutia, submitted his irrevocable resignation to that newspaper. The decision was made because both the journalist and three of the executives of the newspaper were sued by Ecuadorian...

This weekend the President of the Judicial Council, Benjamin Cevallos, dismissed Santiago Coba from his charge for being “violating the constitution.” Cevallos added that Coba “is a ignorant judge that has no knowledge regarding the laws at all.” Now the infighting of the...

The foreign Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) would have to sign a treaty with the Ecuadorian government to be able to work in the country. Executive order 812, published on July 5 by President Rafael Correa, establishes that the current foreign NGOs have signed treaties with...

Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa is preparing a bill to regulate the monopolies in the country. “There are not anti-trust bills only in Ecuador, Paraguay and Bolivia,” said the president. This law will regulate monopolies and prevent economic concentration and...

After Judge Arturo Lara restored Benjamin Cevallos, former chairman of the Judiciary, to his office he was once again removed yesterday by judge Santiago Coba’s new orders. Coba ordered the police to prohibit Cevallos entering the building of the body. Cevallos arrived...

The Ecuadorian government decided to create a State Company for Arms Control of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and incorporate the informals to the military system manufacturers to control and regulate the manufacture of firearms that are given to the organized crime...