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Ecuadornews: Press freedom in Ecuador will be subject of international scrutiny in the coming months to verify that it complies with accepted standards and that the controversial Communication Law of the era of Rafael Correa be amended to also protect the work of journalists. The...

Ecuadornews: The renegotiation is almost ready. Petroecuador, Petrochina, Unipec and Petrotailandia will consult this week for the latest details of the changes that will be made to the pre-sales of crude oil that were signed in the government of Rafael Correa. The scope, in the...

Ecuadornews: Interview to Pablo Celi, Comptroller General of the State What was the objective of making a special examination of the country’s public debt?  It was to analyze the legality, the sources and uses of the debt. The audit seeks to understand, transparently and...

Ecuadornews: The Attorney General’s Office activated a second criminal case against the former Minister of Electricity, accused of allegedly receiving bribes from Odebrecht during the start of construction of the Toachi-Pilatón hydroelectric plant. A report from the...

Ecuadornews: The National Assembly of Ecuador today chose Elizabeth Cabezas, option of the governing group Alianza País, as their president to replace José Serrano, dismissed on Friday after a political trial following a recording allegedly conspiring against the attorney...

Ecuadornews: The former president rendered his statement through videoconference. His lawyer, Alexis Mera, denounced a political persecution against his client. Almost one hour took the prosecutor Jimena Mena to evacuate all questions to former President Rafael Correa. The...

Ecuadornews: The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, lamented the death of the British physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the best scientific minds in the world, and said that his permanent exhortation is still needed to ensure that science and technology “should be...

Ecuadornews: The Comptroller presented six preliminary findings in the special examination of debt management between 2012 and 2017. Debt exceeded 52% in relation to GDP. The previous government would have exceeded the legal limit of indebtedness in 2016. By December of that...

Ecuadornews: Bad news. 2018 dawned ‘tables’ for the commercial sector, the surplus with which ended 2017 disappears at a key moment: just when the government is analyzing economic measures to increase its income and sustain its bulky spending. The data of the trade...

Ecuadornews: Eighteen marine members of the expeditionary group in charge of the Ecuadorian Antarctic Institute coexisted the austral summer in the midst of the changing climate of Antarctica. There they maintained and expanded the Ecuadorian Pedro Vicente Maldonado station on...