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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...

  Yesterday, the presence of a group of policemen guarding the Judicial Council building (JC), by order of the Ministry of Interior, prompted the removed president Benjamin Cevallos to struggle with the Judiciary escort in order to enter the building and his former office....

104 policemen, involved in the police riot that occurred in Ecuador on September 30 (30-S), were notified yesterday that they must pay penalties of between 2,000 and $ 5,280 for an alleged misuse of public property. Coronel Cesar Carrion will pay $ 93,000 for damages to the...

American Court of Human Rights will judge Ecuador for granting an oil concession to the Argentinian company  CGC in 1996 to explore and exploit oil on ancestral lands of the indigenous Kichwa Sarayaku in a two-day hearing that starts today in San Jose. There, the Court will hear...

In the midst of political and judicial conflicts in Ecuador, the president of the Judicial Council (CJ), the judge Santiago Coba displaced Benjamin Cevallos from his post yesterday. Judge Coba suspended Cevallos for alleged breach of his duties. Coba is also the judge that last...

Today at 11 am in the Hotel Oro Verde of Guayaquil, journalist Emilio Palacio gave a press conference to inform about the latest events regarding the conflict established by the Ecuadorian president against him. Palacio pointed out that he “will accuse the responsible for...

Renato Vasquez, Second President of the Court of Criminal Guarantees handed down the sentence against former legislative chief of the escort, Rolando Tapia, and rejected the decision of the Judicial Council (JC), which suspended him for three months. This 90-day suspension was...

Coronel Rolando Tapia received a sentence of three years in a correctional facility for attempting against the Estate security. Mario Flores and Ower Simancas were condemned to 18 months, Marco Tiban, Francisco Noboa and Carlos Tasinchana received one year. The judges of Second...