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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...

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...

Ecuadornews:     President Lenin Moreno surprised with a speech at the end of the change of guard in which he assured that “nobody will prevent the implementation of transparency in Ecuador.” “I will not anybody intimidate me, I do not want to use a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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:...

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...