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Families of murdered Ecuadorians ask the IACHR for a research group

Ecuadornews:   Relatives of the three workers of the newspaper El Comercio, kidnapped and murdered by a dissident group of the FARC, asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to create a fact-finding group. This was revealed by Ricardo Rivas, brother of...
Posted On 23 Apr 2018
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Melvin Hoyos: “Today Guayaquil has a great cultural offer”

Ecuadornews:   Faced with criticism and complaints about the cultural development of the city, Melvin Hoyos, director of Culture of the City Council of Buenos Aires, considers it necessary to go back and reflect on the progress made. When you assumed the cultural management...
Posted On 23 Apr 2018
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Ernesto Samper: “You cannot compare the ELN with the group of ‘Guacho'”

Ecuadornews:   The ex-president of Colombia and former Secretary of Unasur, Ernesto Samper, considers that militarizing the area is not enough to combat the criminal organizations that operate on the border between that country and Ecuador. The ex-president pronounces itself...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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6 officials of the Municipality of Quito are investigated for USD 80 million

Ecuadornews:   Six officials of the Municipality of Quito were arrested on Thursday, April 19, 2018 in the morning, in the middle of an operation developed by the Office of the Prosecutor to investigate an alleged crime of illicit association. The prosecutor Eduardo...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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The crisis on the border has the economic plan on hold

Ecuadornews:   A week after the newspaper team of El Comercio was kidnapped on the northern border, the president of the Republic Lenin Moreno presented his economic plan. Since then, the priority for the Government has been to resolve the critical situation. On April 3, the...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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The IMF questions the measurement of debt

Ecuadornews:   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) takes a side of the methodology that the Ecuadorian government uses to account for public debt and ensures that it uses “non-standard” procedures to calculate the figure. The multilateral body published these...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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Escort of President trafficked drugs on a ‘large scale’, according to the Police

Ecuadornews:   The criminal organization had a “solid structure”. 21 people were in charge of intermediating, buying, transporting and marketing drugs in sectors of Guayas such as the Malvinas, Esteros, Guasmo and others. The alkaloid came from Esmeraldas and...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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Marco Miyashiro: “Kidnappings are to frighten”

Ecuadornews:   The scenario of violence that has unleashed the dissidence of the FARC to pretend to corner the Ecuadorian State must be fought not only in the military field but also in terms of intelligence. Can inexperience on the subject of narcoterrorism affect the...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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Minister says there has been no more communication with kidnapers of the couple

Ecuadornews:   Ecuador’s interior minister, Cesar Navas, revealed that there has been no further communication with the kidnappers of a couple from the city of Santo Domingo province who disappeared last week on the border with Colombia. “About the two citizens...
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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Some 10,000 Ecuadorian troops are stationed at the border with Colombia

Ecuadornews:   Some 10,000 Ecuadorian soldiers and police are currently stationed on the border with Colombia in the wake of the deterioration in security since last January, Admiral John Merlo, commander of the single command of operations in that area, told Efe on Monday....
Posted On 20 Apr 2018
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