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Pareja Cordero alleges political persecution at the extradition hearing

EcuadorNews: “We are persecuted politicians.” This was the main premise of Carlos Pareja Cordero and his son, Carlos Pareja Dassum, at the extradition hearing held yesterday in the 37th Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima. The now detainee...
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The Health Code is debated despite the order of the president-elect

EcuadorNews: The first debate on the draft Organic Health Code began, despite the fact that president-elect Lenin Moreno had ordered its processing in the next legislative period because of the concern of the medical guilds for the sanctioning nature of this regulation. The...
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Lenin Moreno announces possible changes to the Communication Law if it is proven to be ineffective

EcuadorNews: “We will check if the law is effective, if not, we will make the appropriate changes,” President-elect Lenin Moreno announced during an interview with Colombian radio station BlueRadio. Moreno stressed that there is freedom of expression in Ecuador,...
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The Law on Agricultural Health was approved

EcuadorNews: With 83 votes in favor and 25 abstentions, the Agricultural Health Law was approved in the second debate and will be forwarded to the presidential office for its final approval or veto. The project regulates the application of measures to promote good practices in...
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The Government pins its hopes on a turnaround in the Chevron case

EcuadorNews: The Ecuadorian government hopes that a court of appeal in The Hague accepts Ecuador is right and corrects the decision of an arbitral tribunal that declared itself competent in the environmental litigation between the country and the Chevron oil company, said...
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Correa described as “impertinent” the statements of the president of the Episcopal Conference

  EcuadorNews: Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa referred to the statements of the new president of the Episcopal Conference as “impertinent and for free,” who “said that there is a unique party here. Why? Because we won all the elections favored by the...
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President-elect Lenin Moreno starts his path in foreign policy

Lenin Moreno began his policy of international rapprochement with the governments of Colombia and Peru. He did it accompanied by Maria Fernanda Espinosa, current ambassador of Ecuador to the UN, in Geneva. She was in Lima yesterday, together with Foreign Minister Guillaume Long,...
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The Code of Security agencies in its second debate

  EcuadorNews The Legislature plans to discuss a new law that regulates the Citizen Security System in a second debate. This legal document will reconcile the functioning of all security institutions with the Constitution of 2008. And gives free way for the creation of a Public...
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