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Yesterday in Ecuador, about 300 uniformed personnel, including police and members of the Military Forces stood by the Provincial Court and the Judicial Council of Guayas for almost 16 consecutive hours. Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa; his lawyer, Vera Alembert...

The complaint that the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa submitted against Daily El Universo, its directors and former Opinion Editor comes to the final hearing.  The hearing will be held today at 10:00 (local time) in the Auditorium of the Provincial Council of the Judiciary...

Daily El Universo, its directors and former opinion editor, Emilio Palacio, announced their decision to agree with the public amend order that the president has given, regarding the opinion column “No to lies.” In a letter signed by the representatives of El Universo,...

Galo Chiriboga was sworn this morning as the new Attorney General by Fernando Cordero, President of the Ecuadorian National Assembly. The event was held in a General Commission and the procedure lasted few minutes. Opposition parties left the place. Assemblywoman Lourdes Tibán,...

Fernando Yávar and Paulo Rodriguez arrived to the Council of the Judiciary. Yávar and Rodriguez, the delegates of the Executive and the Transparency Comission, respectively, and members of the Tripartite Commission that will restructure the judiciary system, wanted to know the...

Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), came to Ecuador over the weekend with other members of the IAPA to have a meeting with President Rafael Correa, however, he received no response since according to the Government, the IAPA has described...

Lorena Escudero quit her office after being in front of the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami) since 2007. Betty Tola, former leader of Pachakutik and Assemblyman for Alianza País, will be the one to assume the charge of Escudero. Last Saturday, Escudero informed Senami...

An Inter American Press Association (IAPA) mission arrived in Ecuador. Their goal: to assess the freedom of speech and press in Ecuador in the midst of the discussion of the Communications Act and the attitude of the Government to the private media, expressed in judgments and...

Ricardo Anton, the executive director of the National Transit Agency of Ecuador (ANT), presented his resignation last Friday. It is still unknown if his decision has been accepted, however, Anton faces a assessment of $897,610 that the entity is charging him because of the...

President Rafael Correa raised the possibility of a “crossed death” if the National Assembly continues to obstruct the appointment of the government representative to the Judiciary. Death Cross is a constitutional mechanism that gives authority to the President to...