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  Since yesterday, Captain Edwin Ortega has been serving a 10-day arrest warrant imposed by a Navy Disciplinary Council for allegedly failing to respect President Rafael Correa. Months ago, Ortega answered an email in which the president explained some decisions about the...

  The assembly members who have traveled the most in the last three years and five months belong to Alianza Pais (AP) and great part of them were made to accompany President Rafael Correa and participate in the meetings of the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino). The...

Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly dedicated his November 28 TV show to the passing of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He describes him as a cruel and disgusting dictator who sowed pain in Cuba, so his death only ‘clears the air.’ But Bayly not only criticizes Fidel but...

Four political parties that were suspended by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and which regained their legal status to participate in the February 2017 elections will seek to capture the necessary votes to resurface in the political arena. These parties are Adelante...

Street protests, claims of unconstitutionality and international actions. These are the actions those who oppose the pension reforms of the Social Security Institute of the Armed Forces (Issfa) will take these days. The actors? Active and retired militaries. They consider that...

The Israeli government has summoned the charge d’affaires of Ecuador in Israel to protest against a speech that the Ecuadorian UN ambassador gave a few days ago, and this country considered “inaccurate” and “riddled with historical distortions.”...

Ecuador’s oil presales to China and Thailand reached $ 8,535 million in eight years (between 2009 and August 2016), according to figures released by the Ministry of Finance. The information also states that, of this amount, Ecuador has already paid some $ 6,853 million in...

Last Friday, the Israeli Embassy in Ecuador addressed a verbal note to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry protesting against the comments made by the local ambassador to the United Nations, Horacio Sevilla, at the UN General Assembly. Sevilla advocated the immediate establishment of...

Ecuador receives the agreement of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce the oil world production from two entirely opposing points of view. The country is the third smallest member of the cartel concerning extraction and also the second that fewer...

President Rafael Correa yesterday sent the draft Organic Law to the Assembly to Prevent Speculation on the Value of Land and Fixation of Taxes known as “Capital Gains Act,” with the character of an economic urgency, which was distributed to the assembly members at...