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The Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa accused the U.S. embassy in Quito to commit espionage within the police and local armed forces, which is why he decided to declare unwelcome person to Ambassador Heather Hodges and asked her to leave Quito on Tuesday. Correa said:...

Blank and null votes will not have the same relevance as the Yes and No will have in the forthcoming referendum to be held on May 7 in Ecuador. This is due to recent rule changes that the Constituent Assembly did in relation to the scrutiny of referendums and plebiscites, giving...

Tomorrow the former U.S. Ambassador, Heather Hodges, in Ecuador will leave the country after being expelled from her position last week due to leakage of information on the Ecuadorian government provided by the organization Wikileaks. Marta Youth, press spokesman of the Embassy...

Madera de Guerrero movement said in a statement that they regret and respect the decision taken by Assemblyman Enrique Herrería, and will continue to be part of a serious , real , and analytical opposition towards the decisions this government takes and affect the national...

The U.S. State Department informed today in its 2010 Human Rights report, that the relationship between the Ecuadorian press and the government “continued to deteriorate” in the past year and that there were “allegations of censorship and self censorship” in the...

President Rafael Correa said in a radio interview that the Andean Trade Preference System (ATPDEA) “are a shame” that Ecuador “will eventually wean.” He also stressed that if the U.S. Congress does not renew the ATPDEA, it is expected that in 2011 the fees...

As a reciprocal measure for the “unjustified “expulsion of the United States Ambassador in Quito, Heather Hodges, last Monday, the U.S. Government decided today to declare the Ecuadorian Ambassador in Washington Luis Gallegos as an “unwelcome person” in...

Starting today, El Universo Newspaper began publishing around 343 diplomatic “cables” supplied by the organization Wikileaks. The cables originated by the United States Embassy in Ecuador, the State Department in Washington and the diplomatic missions of other countries in which...

The United States Department described as “unjustified” the statements given by the Ecuadorean government declaring the U.S. Ambassador in the country as an “unwelcome person”, Heather Hodges. Mark Toner, spokesman for the U.S. Unit, said that Hodges is one of the...

Today the Ecuadorian government demanded the United States explanations regarding the comments of  former USA Ambassador, Heather Hodges, regarding a diplomatic cable of WikiLeaks in which she said that president Rafael Correa must have been aware of the corruption of his former...