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The candidate for mayor of Guayaquil for SUMA, Pedro Pablo Duart, told PRIMICIAS that he will ask for the jurisdiction of the prisons, as the first step to face insecurity. Building a new highway axis and a prison for corrupt judges and prosecutors is the core of the work plan of...

A network of corruption in the electricity sector would be headed by Danilo Carrera, brother-in-law of President Guillermo Lasso and who would be operating in the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL) and Electricity Corporation of Ecuador (CELEC). Danilo Carrera, Guillermo...

Judge José Luis Alarcón Bowen is in the eye of the storm, together with his colleague Mary Quintero Prado. Both declared the innocence of 18 defendants for the trafficking of 20 tons of cocaine, with the saved vote of judge Carlos Fuentes. Alarcón was a legal advisor to the...

President Guillermo Lasso will travel to the United States this Sunday for an official visit to the White House. The presidents will address issues of security, democracy and trade. President Guillermo Lasso and a delegation of 11 officials will travel to the United States, from...

MEP Javier Zarzalejos explains to PRIMICIAS that Ecuador’s entry into the list of countries that do not require a Schengen visa would have the votes to be approved in the European Parliament. What would remain is the technical evaluation to implement that free mobility and...

At an event at the Universidad Andina, the US ambassador, Michael Fitzpatrick, criticized the Ecuadorian justice system and the advance of drug trafficking in the country. Foreign Minister Holguín defends binational cooperation. The Ecuadorian justice system was again questioned...

The European Parliament agreed to include Ecuador in the Schengen visa exemption regime. The MEP Javier Zarzalejos Nieto explained it.  “The Commission services have three months to carry out the technical evaluation, but the political and legislative decision has already...

Ecuador’s diplomatic campaign to get the Schengen visa waived ran into a setback: Qatar clouded the process with alleged acts of corruption. The alleged illegal actions of Qatar hit the process that Ecuador is taking before the European Union (EU) to obtain the exemption of...

Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, countries that make up the Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD), issued a statement on December 8, 2022, on the political situation in Peru. The recently inaugurated president of that country requested a political...

President Guillermo Lasso held a meeting on the afternoon of this Wednesday, December 7, 2022, with Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States. In the meeting held at the Carondelet Palace, the Ecuadorian president and the US official agreed to deepen...