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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...

President-elect Lenin Moreno would be completing the structure of his cabinet, and according to the transition books provided by the outgoing government, 118 authorities shall be appointed. The presidential cabinet is made of 65 authorities, including 53 commanders of the Police...

The bill submitted by President Rafael Correa arrived at the Legislature just one year after the 30-S. In the explanatory memorandum, the president pointed out that the “militarized police model is exhausted” and that it should be “strengthened through a...

  The operation of Puerto Bolivar started a change process since the Yilport Ecu company assumed the concession for 50 years. The firm of Turkish origin aims to turn it into a logistics port platform. From March 1, 2017, the company has executed works such as dredging of...

Ecuador was expected to lower its oil output by 26,000 barrels a day (bpd) as part of an agreement with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Until March 2017 the country managed to reduce it by 14 000 bpd. With the aim at stabilizing international oil prices,...

Rafael Correa would be the first former president to enjoy the security of the Armed Forces and the Police. On May 3rd, he signed Decree 1369 which states: “The former presidents and former vice presidents of the Republic, their spouses, and children should be provided...

  The Police, through the Directorate General of Intelligence, discovered a laboratory designed for the processing of cocaine hydrochloride on the border with Colombia, in a mountainous area of the Guinea sector, within the limits of the General Farfan parish, in the Lago...