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Gente Oil Global showed interest in the Cuyabeno oil field

Ecuadornews:     On February 22, 2016, founding president of People Oil Global Khalil Boutros al-Sholy and ambassador for Ecuador in Qatar Kabalan Bahij Abisaab Neme were part of the guests to the change of guard of former President Rafael Correa, according to a report...
Posted On 07 Aug 2017
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Lourdes Tibán: “A surgery to remove corruption.”

Ecuadornews:     Interview with the former legislator by the Pluri Nacional Pachakutik movement and an indigenous leader. Q: Former legislators have self-convoked. Why? A: I took the initiative. We will meet to analyze the political, economic and social situation of the...
Posted On 07 Aug 2017
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Attorney General says there are more serious evidence than videos and audios in the Odebrecht case

Ecuadornews:     Attorney General Carlos Baca Mancheno said today that there is much more serious evidence than the videos and audios submitted so far on the Odebrecht case. In an interview in the Pensamiento Critico program, broadcast by EcuadorTV, Baca referred to the...
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Odebrecht informer says that he paid Glas bribes for $ 14 million

Ecuadornews:     Odebrecht’s former director in Ecuador José Conceição Filho confessed to Brazilian justice that between 2012 and 2016 he paid at least $ 14.1 million to Vice President Jorge Glas. Moreover, he recorded conversations with him and an intermediary,...
Posted On 04 Aug 2017
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Ricardo Rivera asks for ‘money for glass´campaign’ in talk with an informer

Ecuadornews:     A new recording reveals conversations between Ricardo Rivera and informer José Conceição Santos, former president of the Odebrecht construction company in Ecuador. Rivera, who is tried for illicit association in the Odebrecht case, says:...
Posted On 04 Aug 2017
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What does it imply the fact that the Vice-President had been repealed from his duties?

Ecuadornews:     Decree number 100 – issued on Thursday, August 3, 2017 – strips the current Vice President Jorge Glas from his functions. However, this does not mean that Glas has been removed from office. Section 149 of the Constitution of the Republic...
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Lasso: ‘Glas suspension “legitimates” Moreno as president of Ecuador’

Ecuadornews:     Guillermo Lasso, leader of the opposition party CREO, and who lost in last April’s run-off, said today that the suspension of vice president Jorge Glas “legitimizes” Lenin Moreno in his position of head of state. “The restriction...
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Glas’ uncle to Odebrecht executive: “I need money for glass’ campaign.”

Ecuadornews:     His uncle also called him ‘vidrio’ (Spanish name for Glass, in allusion to his last name). The records guarded by the Prosecutor’s Office increase the political and judicial pressure against an agonizing vice-president without...
Posted On 04 Aug 2017
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Former official of the IESS and the Ministry of Industries is detained for alleged illegal enrichment

Ecuadornews:     This morning, the Prosecutor’s Office, together with special agents of the National Police, raided the home of María Sol Larrea, a former coordinator of the IESS and a former examiner of the Ministry of Industries and Productivity, in an...
Posted On 04 Aug 2017
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Social organizations demand the exit Jorge Glas from the Vice Presidency

Ecuadornews:     A group of demonstrators, members of the Coalition of Social Organizations group, concentrated this morning in the surroundings of the Vice Presidency to demand the resignation of Jorge Glas.   With signs that say ‘A purge for...
Posted On 04 Aug 2017
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