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Roberto López: “A Constituent Assembly to dismantle the correism

He is a harsh critic of the current government. For this legal expert from Guayaquil, reforming the structure of the state will be an obligation of the next government. – Is it possible to convene a Constituent Assembly as announced by the opposition? – It is the only...
Posted On 07 Mar 2017
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Tuna will be conserved with the ban and the global quota

Tuna fishers who work in the eastern Pacific will have to be more austere with the use of the resources of this part of the ocean, and for this, they shall be subject to new rules. Now they must not only respect the 62 days of closure per year but in 2017 they will be obliged to...
Posted On 07 Mar 2017
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The changeover of power in the Army appoints four new generals

The Army has a new commander, Major General Édison Narváez Rosero, who replaces General Luis Castro Ayala in the command, who was removed from office by President Rafael Correa. The president had to issue two decrees to have a man of confidence in the leadership. The first was...
Posted On 07 Mar 2017
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General Luis Castro says that the military did not have the complete custody of the electoral process

As a soldier of honor I acquiesce to the presidential will, however, I express my profound unease because these decisions affect the stability of the great Army. He said he accepted the presidential decision of retiring. He urged the soldiers to continue providing security to the...
Posted On 07 Mar 2017
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The Map of Corruption

Corruption took the first round. And it promises to repeat it in the second, fueled by the public concern that, according to the polls, puts the issue at the top of the list of priorities, only behind unemployment. Citizen interest in corruption has been driven by a wave of...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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Communiqué of the Ecuadorian Association of Newspaper Editors to the candidates

Nine Ecuadorian media that make up the Association of Newspaper Editors presented an exhortation, through a statement, to the presidential hopefuls for the second round. “We ask candidates Lenin Moreno and Guillermo Lasso to commit themselves now to repeal or reform the...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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Correa fears a persecution against him if Lasso wins elections

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa warned that if the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso wins the presidential election, he fears that a political persecution will be initiated against him. He also said he will defend himself without leaving the country. In an interview with...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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Paco Moncayo’s votes would have migrated to Guillermo Lasso after the ‘useful vote’ idea.

In general, polls two weeks before the elections marked a preference for Lasso, lower than the result he obtained, and a higher preference for Moncayo, superior than what he obtained, according to the document. “It suggests in a certain way that probably in those last 10,...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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State media offers more spaces for candidates of the government party

According to a report by the Ecuadorian Media Observatory (OME), a Fundamedios project, candidates of the PAIS (AP) party and other political movements that support them had more exposure in the public media than the hopefuls of the other political groups last January. Six State...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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Banana farmers and Yilport did not reach an agreement

Representatives of the banana export sector and the Turkish company Yilport, which manages the Puerto Bolívar terminal (El Oro), did not agree on the new value of the cargo load rate per banana box, from the port to the ship. According to the exporters, Yilport had announced that...
Posted On 06 Mar 2017
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