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Last Monday Assemblyman of Alianza PAIS (AP) Octavio Villacreses, rejected the statement issued last Friday by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), which states that “the government of Rafael Correa is trying to expand its policy of restrictions towards freedom of...

President Rafael Correa will resume his presidential activities from tomorrow after twelve days off due to his annual holidays. Next Friday, Correa plans to preside over a cabinet of Ministers in Bucay (Guayas) and on Saturday he will transmit the National Address from that...

The Committee on International Relations Sovereignty has not yet delivered the report for the second debate on the Code of Public Safety Entities. In December, the Executive sent the draft law that restructures the police. Furthermore, it is argued that the military who want to...

Members of Alianza País (AP) in the Commission on the Rights of Workers of the National Assembly, yesterday voted for the first debate report of a draft law which seeks to transfer to the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess) the administration of closed...

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) sanctioned 134 responsible servants of the economic management (RME for its Spanish acronym) for failing to file reports of campaign expenditure accounts of February´s last local elections. About 60 of 155 organizations...

Ecuadorian Ambassador in the United States Nathalie Cely, presents two new options to attract foreign investment. Tomorrow, July 30, in Quito, the official will discuss the mechanism ‘start up’. This assumes the investment in innovation projects, especially in...

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) will hold a workshop and the collection of reforms to the Code of Democracy, which will be subsequently proposed by the National Assembly. This proposal aims to cover some legal gaps, so that a commission in charge of...

It’s been four years since the Law of Culture has not returned to be debated in the National Assembly. The hundred ruling party assembly members, a majority in the plenary, have not gotten this law to be approved. The same law that should have been issued in October 2009,...

During a 35-minute speech, which took place at the Plaza de la Integration, in the southern part of the Malecón Simón Bolívar, Mayor Jaime Nebot yesterday called to defend democracy and to prevent its death, letting to a narrower field of freedom. “This country, within the...

The Inter American Press Association (SIP for its Spanish acronym), said it is an “outburst” the document of the Council of Regulation and Development of Information and Communication (Cordicom for its Spanish acronym), which warns the media about “how to...