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This morning, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa appointed the new cabinet members who will replace their previous representatives. In the Interior Ministry, José Serrano will replace Jose Alfredo Serrano Vera Arrata; while Johanna Pesántez, legal adviser who worked with Alexis...

Guayas Board of Elections is the center of attention in the scrutiny process of the referendum. Yesterday, 64 plastic tables were brought to recount votes. Employees of the entity under the gaze of a delegate of the Government (Yes option) and the opposition (No option) hand...

In the province of Pichincha, about 150 young people recruited by the CNE for scrutiny could not do their jobs as the mechanism to review the records was questioned by the delegates. The groups were divided: to the right people of MPD, ID, Sociedad Patriotica, Participación who...

Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, denied receiving money from the FARC for his campaign in 2006, according to a statement released Wednesday, which referred to an analysis of a computer equipment of former number two of the Colombian guerrilla, Raúl Reyes. “I haven’t met...

Alan Garcia, the president of Peru would travel to Quito on May 20 to meet with Rafael Correa. According to the newspaper El Peruano, Garcia was invited by the Ecuadorian leader to discuss the bilateral maritime boundary treaty. The meeting of both leaders will be for a thorough...

This morning, Coronel Cesar Carrion hearing was adjourned until 3H00pm because the prosecutor called again the presidential adviser Francisco  Latorre to expand its version in Martinez case. Latorre, who presented his testimony on Monday, was due to return to the audience, while...

Bucaram Pulley, Ecuadorian Assemblyman from the Roldosista Party (PRE), said this morning at Radio City that despite the Yes, proposed by President Rafael Correa, won in most of the questions of the referendum, the plebiscite was a complete failure for the governmen...

With more than 47% of the votes counted so far, it was found that the ”no” takes advantage over the “yes” in questions 4 and 9, but with a minimal difference. In the fourth question “no” is 44.5% while the “yes” option is 44.2%. In the ninth question the...

At 8:25 former director of the Police Hospital, César Carrión arrived the Fifth Criminal Court of Pichincha, charged as an accomplice of attempted murder against President Rafael Correa in the events of September 30 (30-S) last year. Carrion, who entered the court guarded by...

The Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, “asked and accepted” economic support from FARC to finance his electoral campaign in 2006. The information was given by IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) who gathered the material from the former rebel chief Raul Reyes....