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Proposals seek to stop payment to Jorge Glas

Ecuadornews: A new project came to the Assembly to remove the pension to questioned former presidents. Paola Vintimilla (PSC) proposes reforming Article 135 of the Public Service Law so that the former presidents or ex-vice-presidents sentenced for cases of corruption do not have...
Posted On 09 Oct 2018
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High level concealment

Ecuadornews: General Jorge Gabela was killed because he opposed the purchase of Dhruv helicopters. To that conclusion had already arrived the Argentine expert Roberto Meza. After ninety days of deliberations and after hearing more than thirty appearances, the parliamentary...
Posted On 09 Oct 2018
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The Balda case opens another front within the National Assembly

Ecuadornews: The legislator Sofía Espín assures that there is fear that it is known what the police said Diana F.; Esteban Bernal says that his colleague’s visit is incompatible with his position. The denunciation of the azuayo legislator Esteban Bernal prosecuted the first...
Posted On 09 Oct 2018
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Another inheritance of correísmo

Ecuadornews: It was the Assembly presided by Fernando Cordero which, with the electoral reform of February 2012, enshrined the injustice in the system of political representation in Ecuador. The use of the D’Hondt method (a method of distributing parliamentary seats that...
Posted On 09 Oct 2018
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Espin on the verge of dismissal

Ecuadornews: Sofia Espin no longer smiles. Now she screams, gets indignant, throws accusations with a fan and hides her hand. Forty-eight hours after she got her way thanks to the decided support of a handful of pro-government officers led by Viviana Bonilla (who pretends to be...
Posted On 05 Oct 2018
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Lenin Moreno has pardoned 20 people in 17 months

Ecuadornews: The indult took by surprise the indigenous leader Pepe Acacho. He was living his seventeenth day in the prison of Macas, when he received the news of his release after receiving the condoning of the sentence by President Lenin Moreno. At 7:00 pm last Wednesday he...
Posted On 05 Oct 2018
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Chancellor José Valencia: Asylum status (of Assange) continues in force

Ecuadornews: Chancellor José Valencia confirms that Julian Assange maintains the status of asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London and prefers not to refer to the information he sent about the asylum process to Assemblywoman Paola Vintimilla. It reiterates that the procedure...
Posted On 05 Oct 2018
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Petroecuador: Couple is tried for embezzlement

Ecuadornews: Ex-manager of Refining and former Minister of Hydrocarbons Carlos Pareja Yannuzzelli returned to court. The alleged overpricing in the contracting of the project for the Recovery of Condensates in the Esmeraldas Refinery motivated the new trial that was installed...
Posted On 05 Oct 2018
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They absolve Menem for selling weapons to Ecuador during the Tiwintza War

Ecuadornews: The Argentine Chamber of Cassation today acquitted former President Carlos Menem (1989-1999) for a crime of aggravated arms smuggling to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995 for which he had been previously sentenced to seven years in prison, they reported...
Posted On 05 Oct 2018
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22 former presidents have a life pension

Ecuadornews: The life annuity role of former presidents of September of this year registers 22 beneficiaries. Ten for the exercise as heads of state and twelve as vice presidents. Among the former presidents who appear on the list of the Office of Human Talent Management of the...
Posted On 04 Oct 2018
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