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EcuadorNews: The Ecuadorian government hopes that a court of appeal in The Hague accepts Ecuador is right and corrects the decision of an arbitral tribunal that declared itself competent in the environmental litigation between the country and the Chevron oil company, said...

EcuadorNews: With 83 votes in favor and 25 abstentions, the Agricultural Health Law was approved in the second debate and will be forwarded to the presidential office for its final approval or veto. The project regulates the application of measures to promote good practices in...

EcuadorNews: “We will check if the law is effective, if not, we will make the appropriate changes,” President-elect Lenin Moreno announced during an interview with Colombian radio station BlueRadio. Moreno stressed that there is freedom of expression in Ecuador,...

EcuadorNews: The first debate on the draft Organic Health Code began, despite the fact that president-elect Lenin Moreno had ordered its processing in the next legislative period because of the concern of the medical guilds for the sanctioning nature of this regulation. The...

EcuadorNews: “We are persecuted politicians.” This was the main premise of Carlos Pareja Cordero and his son, Carlos Pareja Dassum, at the extradition hearing held yesterday in the 37th Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima. The now detainee...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) yesterday suspended the Patriotic Society party for 12 months because it allegedly did not justify the administration and use of more than a million dollars of public resources during the financial year 2015. If this justification is handed...

The Government says that bilateral investment protection treaties, signed by the country, were not decisive to attract foreign investment. And that is one of the reasons to terminate those agreements. Last week, the Legislature approved the denunciation of 12 agreements....

  The majority of Alianza PAIS (PA) in the Commission of International Relations of the Legislature approved yesterday the report for second debate of the draft Organic Code of Agencies of Citizen Security, which includes the creation of the Public Protection Service (SPP),...

They were in their last interview prior to obtaining their refugee card at the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) when elements of the Interpol from Peru entered and arrested Carlos Pareja Cordero and his son Carlos Pareja Dassum. It was about...

On Monday, May 8, Attorney General Galo Chiriboga announced that he will leave the Prosecutor’s Office this week.   According to the official, he has decided to retire in view of the fact that an Attorney General has already been elected and the new Government will be...