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Nobel Peace Price of 1980 and President of Chile Visit Ecuador

QUITO – Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera, and The Nobel Peace Price of 1980, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel visited Rafael Correa in the Presidential Palace today, to show him their support after the incidents of September 30th. Pérez Esquivel arrived at 10.20 local time at the...
Posted On 11 Oct 2010
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Discipline Council Incorporated to the Air Force

Javier Ponce Cevallos, Ministry of National Defense said that his budget wasn’t in charge of the investigations regarding the uprising in the lane of the Airport Mariscal Sucre by members of the Air Force this last Thursday. “The ministry of Defense is only attentive to the...
Posted On 10 Oct 2010
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Correa Sends Letter to UNASUR’s Nestor Kirchner

EFE “On behalf of the people of Ecuador, my government and myself, I Thank you infinitely for your intervention in favor of democracy on my country” affirmed Rafael Correa through a letter to former Argentinian President Néstor Kirchner, Secretary General of UNASUR....
Posted On 08 Oct 2010
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Police and Military Meet to ‘Smooth Things Over’

After 8 days of the confrontation between members of the Police and the Military in the operation to take out the President from the Hospital of the Police on September 30th, where at least 5 people lost their lives and more than 200 people got hurt, the dome of the Police and...
Posted On 08 Oct 2010
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Vicepresident Lenin Moreno to Replace Correa in Festivities

The Vicepresident of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, is reportedly going to replace President Rafael Correa during the festivities of the Independence of Guayaquil City on Saturday, which took place on October 9th, 1820. The presence of Moreno has been confirmed due to a medical rest...
Posted On 08 Oct 2010
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Assembly Evacuated Due Bomb Alert

Anti-bomb squad members of the National Police are inspection with trained dogs the National Assembly facilities due to a possible bomb threat. A telephonic alert was received at 15:30 (approximately), Legislative Escort ordered all the staff members who were working at the place...
Posted On 08 Oct 2010
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Police Officers and Soldiers’ bodies will be exhumed

The bodies of two military soldiers and two policemen who died December 30th happenings will be exhumed. The autopsy was never done; the information about bullets’ depth and diameter remains unknown. Military soldiers’ bodies Darwin Panchi (Ambato) and Jacinto Cortés (Santo...
Posted On 07 Oct 2010
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Government Intelligence Units Will Be Restructured

Alexis Mera, Legal Secretary of the Presidency, announced on Thursday that because of the incidents of September 30th, there will be a very profound restructuration of the Military and Police Intelligence Units that serve the Government. Mera did not especify if there will be...
Posted On 07 Oct 2010
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Uprising Tapes Delivered by the National Assembly

Quito, Ecuador (EFE) – Fernando Cordero, President of Ecuador National Assembly delivered today to the district six discs with over eight hours of information regarding the Police uprising of last Thursday. Legislator, Rolando Panchana, accompanied Cordero to the District of...
Posted On 06 Oct 2010
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Rafael Correa: American Organizations from Extreme Right-Wing Behind Uprising

QUITO – “I will not allow the organization of paramilitary groups in Ecuador” said President Rafael Correa in regards to the incidents of last Thursday in Ecuador. “There’s a group of people in the police that have no boundaries and are very...
Posted On 06 Oct 2010
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