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Ecuadornews:     Former President Rafael Correa has confirmed through a series of tweets the existence of an arrest warrant against his former Minister of Public Works Walter Solís but says this is not related to the Odebrecht Case. “The arrest warrant against...

Ecuadornews:     Guillermo Lasso, a former presidential hopeful of the CREO-SUMA coalition, was invited as an exhibitor within the master’s program of the Instituto Atlántico de Gobierno, which is headed by former President of Spain José María Aznar.   Through his...

Ecuadornews:     The soft coup theory is once again in the official discourse. It is now Vice President Jorge Glas who claims to be a victim of this strategy of the “regional and global right,” that has recorded only one fallen in the country to date. The...

Ecuadornews:     Former President Rafael Correa voices his criticism. From his Twitter trench, he fired for the second consecutive day on a stand of his successor Lenin Moreno but without naming him. First, he criticized Moreno for anti-corruption actions. This time...

Ecuadornews:     About 3,000 people deprived of liberty in the country could benefit from the partial or total reduction of penalties, established in the last executive decree Rafael Correa issued as a president. This decree is No. 1440 dated May 23, 2017, that is, one...

Ecuadornews:     Daniela Cepeda, Miss Guayaquil and winner of the Miss Ecuador beauty pageant, yesterday received her prizes from the Miss Ecuador Organization. Among dozens of prizes from the sponsors, Miss Ecuador 2017 received a white Renault Duster valued at USD...

Ecuadornews:     Vice President Jorge Glas said yesterday in a radio interview that Marcelo Odebrecht – who is sentenced in Brazil to 19 years in prison – threatened him some time ago when demanding the integral repair of the San Francisco hydroelectric...

Ecuadornews:   Why does Glas feel persecuted? Glas believes “there are two things that Odebrecht will never forgive me for.” The first, for having expelled the company in 2008 and that, after knowing the US report on the fines, the government decided not to pay...

Ecuadornews:     They do have powers to investigate, and announced that they will continue to do so. The National Anti-Corruption Commission (formed at the request of social organizations) has three outstanding cases: Caminosca, Odebrecht’s return to Ecuador and...

Ecuadornews:     Guillermo Lasso, the former presidential hopeful of the opposition during the runoff election, today denounced a “brazen fraud” in those elections, power, he said, “harassed the independent press.” Lasso participated today in the...