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After a long contest of merits and oppostion, Galo Chiriboga was elected as the highest authority of the Ecuadorian Attorney General’s Office. The Council of Citizenship and Social Control made the official announcement that Chiriboga will be replacing Washington Pesantez....

Galo Chiriboga, will be sworn in today as the new Attorney General. Yesterday, after his arrival in Quito (Ecuador) he announced that next Monday he will be resigning to his current position as Ambassador of Ecuador in Spain. This morning, the Council of Citizen Participation and...

Each of the 124 members of the Ecuadorian National Assembly will receive a wage increase of almost $ 500 per month according to the new salary chart approved by the Ministry of Labour Relations of Ecuador. With this adjustment in their wages, assembly members will receive as...

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...