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Jorge Glas says he did not use to talk or see his uncle

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...
Posted On 07 Jun 2017
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Jorge Glas: “If they call me I’ll appear before the Audit Commission”

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...
Posted On 07 Jun 2017
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Carlos de la Torre: ‘The private sector will be the engine of the economy’

EcuadorNews: Carlos de la Torre, Minister of Finance, has an Economy degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE), a Masters degree in Economics, from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He was director of the Institute for Economic Research of the...
Posted On 29 May 2017
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Ecuadorian talent shining abroad

Ecuadornews:   Roberto Manrique, Domenica Mena, Juan Andres Saa, Mirella Cesa, and Cynthia Coppiano are entrepreneurs, they trust in God and have not lost faith. They are hard workers. Several Ecuadorian personalities had to migrate to find a space in the showbiz, but it was...
Posted On 19 May 2017
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Alfredo Palacio: “I would have expected more of Correa” 

Former President Alfredo Palacios spoke with daily Expreso about his relationship with Rafael Correa, whom he promoted in politics and succeeded him on April 15, 2007. Palacios recalls that he proposed a change in the oil funds. “And I started, after that, to accept...
Posted On 18 Jul 2016
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Maimi Herald: Correa is losing his grip in Ecuador

BY GLENN GARVIN Ecuador’s Rafeal Correa may be ruining his country’s economy, strangling its news media and daring its military to depose him in a coup, but he certainly hasn’t lost his sense of humor — though a lot of people wish that he had. Last year, when a Panamanian...
Posted On 05 Apr 2016
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Manuela Picq is still trying to return to Ecuador

Manuela Picq is still trying to attempt to return to the country and there have been protests in international forums. The weekend was in Miami, United States. Before she took his case Brussels. And will continue to do so, in mind has to go to the Inter-American Commission on...
Posted On 14 Mar 2016
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Ecuadorian president announces his plans to visit United States and the Vatican

The Ecuadorian president said during his weekly report that he will be in New York and Chicago for the presentation of the video ‘The Royal Tour’, produced by the American journalist Peter Greenberg. The video has the “peculiarity that the tour guide is the...
Posted On 13 Mar 2016
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Washington Pesantes: “The country requires to oversee the Government”

  The Ecuadorian Attorney General, and now the leader of the movement “Unión Ecuatoriana” (M19), Washington Pesántez, maintained a conversation with the Daily “Expreso” regarding the future elections in 2017 and the process of the unity. His political...
Posted On 11 Mar 2016
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Correa with a cloud of bodyguards in a military compound

It seems Rafael Correa feels so insecure among the military. Correa went to the Civil Registry located in the United Nations and Amazonas streets to get his new identity card and took with him less bodyguards than on Friday 26 at the Parcayacu Military School. The ceremony of...
Posted On 27 Feb 2016
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