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Vice President Jorge Glas will remain imprisoned in Quito

Ecuadornews:     Vice President Jorge Glas will remain in custody. The National Court of Justice denied the habeas corpus petition filed by Eduardo Franco, Glas´attorney. Judge-Rapporteur Rosa Álvarez, after a deliberation of about fifty minutes with magistrate...
Posted On 16 Oct 2017
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Legislature summons Attorney General by surprise

Ecuadornews:     Four days before the nation’s prosecutor Carlos Baca Mancheno rules on the accusation of Vice President Jorge Glas, in the offense of unlawful association that investigates 18 people in the Odebrecht corruption plot, the official was summoned by...
Posted On 13 Oct 2017
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Alexis Mera asks to withdraw his nomination as ambassador to the US

Ecuadornews:     The former legal secretary of the Presidency during the government of former President Rafael Correa, Alexis Mera, requested Chancellor Maria Fernanda Espinosa to withdraw his nomination as ambassador to the United States in Washington. He did so...
Posted On 11 Oct 2017
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Vice President Jorge Glas chooses to remain in jail

Ecuadornews:     Vice-President without functions Jorge Glas preferred to wait in jail for the preparatory hearing of the trial for the alleged crime of unlawful association in the Odebrecht case, to be held Monday in Court. In that process, Glas hopes that Attorney...
Posted On 11 Oct 2017
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Lenin Moreno: “Guayaquil is the capital of reconciliation.”

Ecuadornews:     Yesterday, during the solemn session for the 197 years of Independence of Guayaquil, a public-private agreement was signed for the dredging of the zone of influence of the Maritime Port. It specifically refers to the cleaning of Los Goles area, to...
Posted On 10 Oct 2017
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Gustavo Larrea: “I do not deny that we have talked about politics with Lenin Moreno”

Ecuadornews:     After several months of silence, he considers that this is the moment to talk about national politics again. Gustavo Larrea does not deny he has met with President Lenin Moreno, but he wants to clarify the scope of these talks. Excerpt from an interview...
Posted On 10 Oct 2017
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Mossack Fonseca manager, imprisoned in Colombia

Ecuadornews:     Juan Esteban Arellano Rumazo, 43, is imprisoned in Colombia, he accused of building a financial and corporate network to sell false invoices to Colombian companies through offshore companies. Arellano was captured on Wednesday, October 4, along with Luz...
Posted On 06 Oct 2017
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Lenin Moreno entrusts the Vice Presidency and the referendum to Maria Alejandra Vicuña

Ecuadornews:     President Lenin Moreno commissioned the Vice Presidency to Minister of Urban Development and Housing Maria Alejandra Vicuña due to the “temporary absence” of Jorge Glas, through Executive order No. 176. The president supports this decision...
Posted On 05 Oct 2017
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A less compulsive Twitter user

Ecuadornews:     Arrows in the form of a tweet. Since former President Rafael Correa left to Belgium, he has used Twitter to attack, ignore and question the political and economic management of whom he appointed as his successor to the Citizen Revolution, President...
Posted On 05 Oct 2017
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Moreno requests a legal study to replace Glas

Ecuadornews:     Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said today that he had asked presidential lawyers to study the procedures to replace Vice President Jorge Glas, now in pretrial detention, considering that “a person who is incarcerated, cannot hold office as vice...
Posted On 05 Oct 2017
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