According to Hoy.com.ec the state owned Petroecuador has signed an agreement with China to sell 130 million barrels of petroleum to Chinese state oil company, Petrochina, within a period of six years. Marco Calvopiña, the president of Ecuadorian Petroleum says that he hopes Ecuador can deliver 60,000 barrels per day to complete the contract in the given time period. Officials add that each barrel will be sold with an additional $0.745. Furthermore, the contract states that Ecuador has to deliver 118 million barrels of Fuel Oil. Officials say that oil shipments to China will increase due to two previous agreements signed with Chinese officials, totaling $1,000 million, that have not been completed. An official from the Petroleum Forum says that the oil agreements may not be in Ecuador’s best interest since they are all with one client and they create more Chinese debt in Ecuador, now totaling $7.271 billion.Read Article
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ElComercio.com reports that recent cases of violence against women in Ecuador have created increased fear for Ecuadorian women. Officials say they do not have specific statistics about homicides of women in Ecuador, however 84 murders and assassinations were reported in Quito from January to April of 2011. Officials add that most violence against women occur […]
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According to ElComercio.com at least 16 areas in the Historic Center in Quito are being overrun with alkaloid micro trafficking. The Metropolitan Secretary of Security says that the problem is increasing due to the presence of crime and instability in Quito. Furthermore, the Antinarcotics Division of Pichincha has identified 76 selling points of these drugs […]
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According to ElComercio.com new government statistics from SIGOB show robberies and other violent crimes are increasing in Quito. In Quito, robbery of bank customers in the vicinity of financial institutions increased from 81 cases in 2009 to 169 in 2010. Officials report that the first quarter of this year 2,044 robberies occurred in Quito while […]
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According to ElComercio.com eight legal proceedings against Ecuador are pending in the international courts. Claims against Ecuador are reportedly about $4,658 million, which only take into account five of the eight cases where damages have been quantified. Most of the lawsuits are from oil companies, while two of the lawsuits come from the companies Global […]
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According to ElComercio.com the governments of Spain and Ecuador have signed an agreement that will allow Spanish and Ecuadorian emigrants to choose between which of the two countries to retire. The announcement was made by the president of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), Ramiro Gonzalez in coordination with the Spanish Ministry of Social Security. […]
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ElComercio.com reports that there is a shortage of HIV-AID drugs in Ecuador. Health officials report that prescriptions of antiretroviral drugs such as Lamivudine, Abacavir and Kaletra are not being filled at special pharmacies that are supposed to carry these expensive drugs. Non-governmental organizations report that 10% of the 1,000 members of the organization Caminos de […]
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ElComercio.com reports that Ecuador’s Minister of Finance has completed final negotiations with the Eximbank of China for the credit of $571 million to finance the Sopladora hydroelectric project. Reportedly, the loan has an interest rate of 6.35% for a 15-year term with four years grace period. Chinese funding will be 85% of the entire project, […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec police apprehended four suspects that were planning the kidnapping and assault of a Pelileo bus, after an intense shootout on the road Duran-Boliche today July 1st. Officials say that the bus targeted was carrying 30 people. Assailants were able to board the bus in the 3rd terminal of Guayaquil, however police apprehended […]
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According to ElComercio.com Ecuadorian officials of the Criminology Department have a computerized system (UTCA) that archives bullets to identify firearms. A microscopic image of each bullet is placed in the database for identification. However, officials report the database is incomplete. In 2009, Ecuadorian armed forces recorded about 170,000 bullets into the database. Then on June […]
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ElComercio.com reports that at 3:50 p.m. sixty firefighters had managed to control the wildfire burning on a slope of the Pichincha volcano. Officials say that the flames consumed about 5 hectares of land and shrubs. Firefighters report using branches to quell the flames since the location of the fire was inaccessible to their vehicles. City […]
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ElComercio.com reports that today, Wednesday June 29th, the five suspects in the assault and shootout with policemen protecting a money transfer of $12,000 in the north of Quito yesterday, were in court for a arraignment hearing. The Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior, Jose Serrano was present to ask the court to prevent the release of […]
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According to ElComercio.com President Rafael Correa has announced in May that the presidential headquarters will be moved from the Carondelet Palace to a complex in Epiclachima barracks located in south Quito. El Comercio reports that a debate has begun surrounding the history of Plaza Grande and relocation of the government headquarters. Ecuadorian historian, David Gomez […]
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According to ElComercio.com a fire on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano was reported at 9:45 a.m. today, June 28th. The fire department responded to the call in which large columns of smoke overtook the sky in the southwest of Quito. Firefighters say that they are unable to access the area with their vehicles. Therefore, […]
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ElComercio.com reports that a police shootout occurred this morning, Tuesday June 28th, two blocks from the Quito airport, Mariscal Sucre, leaving one dead and another wounded. The police have yet to identify the victim and the wounded was identified as one of the police officers involved. Officers report that three police officers were involved in […]
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ElComercio.com reports that Tuesday June 28th, a Pichincha Court in Quito convicted Colonel Rolando Tapia, former head of the legislative escort, and five policeman of undermining state security on September 30th, 2010, when a group of policemen held President Rafael Correa captive for several hours in a police hospital and took control of the Air […]
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According to ElComercio.com the two FARC guerrillas arrested in Quito were transferred to the headquarters of the narcotics police in Quito and are awaiting a deportation hearing Tuesday June 28th. Officials say this morning a Colombian DAS plane arrived to transport the guerrillas to Colombia. One of the suspects, Fabio R. is the second in […]
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•Ecuadorian authorities apprehended two members of FARC during an operation in the south of Quito according to the Ministry of the Interior. •El Espectador reports that they are reported to belong to the “Frente Sur” (South Front) of FARC, and authorities have requested fingerprints and other information to ascertain their identities. •They are to be […]
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According to ElUniverso.com police arrested two members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the southern Quicentro shopping mall in Quitumbe. The FARC members are identified as Andres Guaje Chala and Yanesi Hoyos Alarcon. Guaje is known as Favio Ramrez in the FARC organization and was 2nd in command of the frente […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that many “clinics” that offer a cure to homosexuality actually participate in the abuse and mistreatment of individuals under their care. This past Wednesday, June 22nd, Paola spoke in front of about 70 people in Quito describing her experience being taken from her home to one of these “clinics.” In many cases including […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Minister of Energy and Mines in Peru asked his counterpart in Ecuador for assistance by temporarily distributing part of Ecuador’s electricity to a northern section of Peru. Electricity in the area has been temporarily disrupted due to the maintenance of an electricity plant says Ecuador’s minister. Since this past Friday, June […]
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•El Tiempo reports that Ecuadorian President Correa denounces the NGOs (non-governmental organizations), which are connected, with the extreme right of the U.S. are connected with FARC and other illegal groups on the Colombia – Ecuador Border. •He claims that these NGOs are attempting to replace the governments in that area. •He cites that of the […]
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According to ElUniverso.com last Thursday the vessel, San Juan III, sunk around 2 p.m. in the harbor of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz. The owner was transferring fuel from one boat to another and the ship became unbalanced and overturned. Within five minutes the boat sank spilling about 700 gallons of diesel. Officials say there were […]
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According to Andes.info.ec interview with Eva Golinger, a United States writer and investigator, many Ecuadorian organizations receive funding from the U.S. State Department through agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Goliger continues to say that these funds are specific for destabilizing the government of Rafael […]
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Andes.info.ec reports that President Rafael Correa is leading a campaign to create more transparency in Ecuador. The government is beginning a process to regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that the president says mostly do good, but some engage in chaos through policy creation, impose foreign policy and destabilize progressive governments. President Correa says that some NGOs […]
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According to Andes.info.ec some Ecuadorian provinces have signed agreements with the Universal Postal Union and the Postal Union of the Americas that will implement the electronic system IFS, to make sending payment and electronic fund transfers easier. In turn, this means that Ecuadorian migrants will be able to send remittances back to Ecuador in less […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, the Ministry of Public Health has opened a mobile hospital in Guayaquil. The center opened its doors at 7 a.m. on Monday June 27th. Many people were already lined-up waiting for care, reports radio station Citynoticias. However people have to wait in line for an average of 3 hours. El Universo reports […]
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A seven-year conflict in the Episcopal Church’s Ecuador Central diocese has resulted in the presiding bishop sending a team to that nation to investigate. The conflict has resulted in the breakdown of relationships between the Standing Committee and Bishop Luis Fernando Ruiz, who has served as diocesan bishop since August 2009. Read Article
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Hoy.com.ec reports that the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem awarded Manuel Antonio Borrero a medal of ‘National Justice’ for saving Jews during World War II. The medal was awarded on Thursday June 23rd. According to Hoy, this is the highest award of honor given to non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives. Borrero who was born in […]
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ElComercio.com reports that President Juan Manuel Santos, today, rejected a decision made by an Ecuadorian court to call a trial of the Colombian security forces that were involved in the 2008 bombing of Angostura that ended with the death of FARC deputy chief, “Raul Reyes.” Santos says that the military took direct orders from him, […]
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According to ElComercio.com a man driving on the Granda Centeno around 3 a.m. on Friday June 24th, was intercepted by two people on motorcycles says the preliminary investigation report. Police say the driver was shot and lost control of his vehicle, crashing into local food stands on the streets of Brasil and Granda Centeno in […]
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ElComercio.com reports that during a presentation by law enforcement on Thursday, police informed the media that they recently seized 34.4 kilos of alkaloids in nine separate raids throughout the capital. Police report that 13 arrests were made in connection to the raids where the drugs were going to be sold in illegal trade deals. During […]
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ON SEPTEMBER 30, CNN’s CORRESPONDENT in Ecuador, Rodolfo Mu�oz, resigned after 14 years on the job. That day Mu�oz had covered a police revolt that paralyzed Ecuador, in what President Rafael Correa called a coup attempt. The president, after confronting a group of demonstrators, was attacked and later held hostage inside a hospital until a […]
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ElComercio.com reports that today, shareholders of the company would like to revive the company and not dissolve the Icaro airlines. Icaro says that the company hopes during the liquidation process it will be able to solve the temporary inconveniences that the company is facing. The company also says that they are waiting for current business […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Coordinating Minister for Security, Homero Arellano announced that Ecuador’s Central Bank would buy gold directly from the miners of San Lorenzo and Eloy Alfaro. The announcement was made in Selvalegre, northern Esmeraldas. Furthermore, the government will provide 50 gold extraction machines, to miners through mining associations. The machines cost $9,000 each […]
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According to ElComercio.com Jose Serrano, Ecuador’s Interior Minister warned that if the police who participated in the rebellion against President Rafael Correa on September 30, 2010 go unpunished, future rebellion attempts might be more serious. Four men, including a colonel, and a politician, Fidel Arauj, were found innocent of attempted murder of Correa by an […]
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ElComercio.com reports that in Vilcabamba Thursday June 23rd, President Rafael Correa stated that a transfer of USD 300,000 did take place, however the money was not paid to the Germany, rather to a Belgium bank. Correa released documents that confirmed the transfer of funds to Pacific Bank this past 9th of August 2010. Correa says […]
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According to ElTelegrafo.com.ec police found a “long-range” weapon inside a house in the South of Quito on Thursday June 23rd. An agent says that the gun was a 182-caliber, an army issued rifle. Authorities say that the gun has a price of $80,000 on the black market. The gun is not identified as an Ecuadorian […]
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According to ElComercio.com Tame Airlines and ATR Turboprops signed a purchase agreement for the ownership of three new ATR 42-500 aircrafts worth $54 million on Wednesday June 22nd. Tame will use these aircrafts for domestic economy flights called, “Milk Train” flights. These flights will connect several smaller cities on a single route. Destinations include Puyo, […]
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According to ElComercio.com a judge of the Guayas judicial system denied a protective action against rising electricity rates for the National Electricity Council (CONELEC) today, Thursday June 23rd. Miguel Palacios, president of the Civil Council of Guayaquil (JCG) lead the indictment and will appeal the ruling. The judge says that she could not provide a […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Attorney of the Judicial police in Guayaquil denounced the increasing express kidnapping and violent robberies that are occurring in the Guayas province. As of yesterday 24 express kidnappings have been reported to authorities this month. However, President Rafael Correa reported last week that crimes had dropped by 15% from 2010 in […]
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Ecuadorinmediato.com reports that Peruvian authorities discovered 85 acres of land, valued at 25 million soles, dedicated to the production of marijuana. Authorities discovered the land in the annex of Pueblo Libre in the Pataz province. Drug traffickers moved about 800 kilos of marijuana monthly, police say. The marijuana was concealed in public transportation and individual […]
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Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that requirements for having refugee status in the South American country have been tightened. The new measures are based on the “citizen security policy” of the Ecuadorian government, said Leonardo Carrion, assistant secretary of migratory, consular and refugee issues at the ministry. Read Article
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According to ElUnvierso.com eight cattle have died in El Triunfo from bovine rabies. Authorities believe that they were contaminated through bat bites. The outbreak of rabies was reported three weeks ago and is being managed by the Ministry of Agriculture’s office in Agrocalidad says providence official, Isabel Barrera. Vaccinations were not available from the start […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the European Union has extended the system of preferences that benefit about 6,000 Ecuadorian products until December 2013. The announcement was made Wednesday by E.U. Minister of Economic Policy Coordination, Katiuska King. The statement said the decision was made on May 31st in the Official Journal of the E.U. King says that […]
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Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement- Recorded interview with co-author Dr. Scott H. Beck (Dr. J. Mijeski) (Recording Time – 01:16:21) Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories […]
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After about 40 years of operation, Icaro Airlines, an Ecuadorian company presented papers for a request of dissolution to the Supervision of Companies (SC), reports ElUniverso.com. Reportedly, the dissolution and liquidation process could take six to eight months. The SC reports that during that time the company can continue its business activities. However, once the […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the United Nations Human Rights Council received a report by Philip Alston, a U.N. special reporter on extrajudicial executions, concerning cases of unlawful killings by policemen in Ecuador. The Ecuadorian internal investigation unit records 104 deaths by police that were occurred between 2005 and 2010. However, another police unit reports that there […]
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According to ElComercio.com unknown assailants, in a western suburb of Guayaquil, gunned down a young man on Saturday. He and a young woman, whom he used as a human shield, are two of nine murders recorded by the Guayaquil prosecutor’s office, which occurred over the weekend. Officials of the Guayaquil police force are investigating all […]
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Hoy.com.ec reports that a delegation of Ecuadorian officials and businessmen traveled to Mexico Tuesday June 21st to promote their domestic products for trade with Mexico. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry says that in 2010 a deficit of $640.2 million was registered for trade between the two countries. Ecuadorian officials will remain in Mexico until Friday to […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Metropolitan Municipality was presented with the preliminary study for a metro in Quito, on Tuesday June 21st. Francisco Javier Gomez, from Metro Madrid, indicated that average fare per passenger would be $0.40. The project will begin with one line, Linea 1, from Quitumbe, in the south of the capital to El […]
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Anedes.info.ec reports that Ecuador signed a Multilateral Ibero-American Agreement on Social Security on Monday in Madrid, Spain. The agreement concentrates on guaranteeing equal treatment and future pension for workers in the participating countries. According the article, the agreement arose from the need to protect individual rights of the millions of migrant workers and their families […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec six blocks of oil fields in Armadillo, Chanangue, Charapa, Eno-Ron, Ocano and Singue, located in the Amazon region, are open for bidding contacts, states the Ministry of Non-Renewable Resources. The bidding process is open until August says the Ministry. Interested companies will have to pay a registration cost, $10,000 and will be […]
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According to ElTiempo.com.ec the Directorate of Civil Aviation, DAC reported that it has suspended Air Cuenca flights since the company has not complied with repair plans for an aircraft. A Boeing 737 owned by the company had a ‘mishap’ when leaving the runway of Mariscal Lamar on May 13th. No one was hurt. However, the […]
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ElDiario.com.ec reports that a mother brought her teenage daughter to the hospital Rafael Rodriguez Zambrano after she found her unconscious near a store in Eloy Alfaro Parish where the girl was buying sweets, last weekend. The teenager says that she was walking to the store when a group of individuals in a car approached her […]
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According to Teleamazonas.com Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced Saturday June 18th that Ecuador is conducting negotiation with Peru on an agreement about the issue of cell phone theft. The agreement is going to combat the theft of cell phones and the activation of phones in neighboring countries. Ecuador and Colombia already have an agreement on […]
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ElTiempo.com.ec reports that custom officials in the Guayaquil airport arrested a United States citizen from Alabama, Andrew G., arriving on Delta Airlines. The American was trying to enter Ecuador with 22 gold bars, valued at USD 1,072,000 that was not declared at the customs checkpoint. Police investigating the case say that the probable destination was […]
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According to ElUniverso.com President Rafael Correa’s website and information portal were hacked this past Sunday. The government reported the incident Monday June 20th. El Universo reports that a group called “Latin Hack Team” took responsibility for the attack. A message saying, “Against the hypocrisy and corruption of government, for freedom of expression,” was left on […]
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According to ElComercio.com Luis C., 21, from Colombia died early Sunday morning, June 19th, in northern Quito near Eloy Alfaro. Judicial police say that he was struck by several gunshots while waiting at a fast-food stand along with his father. Witnesses say that two gunmen pulled up in a car, got out, fired and fled. […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that Guayaquil will house the new municipal Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art between the street of Rocafuerte and Loja. Melvin Hoyos, director of municipal Culture and Civic Promotion says that the center will house the cultural property of more than 14,000 pieces that was unable to be accommodated by the municipal museum. […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the police of the hydrocarbon energy unit raided a hacienda in San Carlos in the province of Guayas on the morning of Friday June 17th. The unit found fuel stored for smuggling activities in the vicinity of the hacienda, reported the police. The fuel was bound for Huaquillas, a city located on […]
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According to the president’s private secretary, Gustavo Jalkh, an investigation will be launched into the death of an Ecuadorian who was beaten to death by supporters of a soccer team during a game in Guayaquil on Sunday June 12th. The game was between Barcelona, a Guayaquil team and Liga de Quito, a team from Ecuador’s […]
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ElUnvierso.com reports that the House of Congress in Ecuador approved a bill to eradicate all forms of physical and psychological violence. The bill also prevents all forms of harassment that occurs between schoolchildren. Congress approved the bill unanimously. The newly passed bill covers violence inflicted using technology or any new device of communication. El Universo […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Homero Fernandez, the judge of the 12th Civil Court of Pichincha says that he is receiving death threats from a “group of corrupt lawyers” that want an immediate ruling in a case. The judge received a threat saying he had 72 hours to deliver a verdict on this trial and that if […]
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According to ElUniverso.com only four of the eight-four cantons, located in the costal region of Ecuador, are allowed to perform cockfighting activities as a result of the referendum on May 7th. Only Esmeraldas, Montalvo, Valencia, and Las Lajas voted against question eight in the referendum. Therefore they are exempt from the prohibition. All the other […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, two and a half years ago ten companies merged into a single management of the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL). However, the companies are failing to reduce power distribution losses to a single digit. Furthermore, the union objective was to eliminate any power loss, said the Ministry of electricity and National Electricity Council. […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that three heavily armed men robbed Natos La Parrilla, in the center of Guayaquil, on Wednesday June 15th at 8:45 p.m. Police report the assailants took about USD 5,000 from customers and restaurant workers. The robbed items included cell phones, and lab tops. Victims included foreigners who were dining at the restaurant. On […]
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According to ELUniverso.com the Ecuador’s Minister of the Interior, Jose Serrano announced that along with the elite police groups implemented by the national police, a plan called “safe circuits” will be exercised in an effort to reduce levels of crime. The elite police groups have been in place for about 21 days, however in Guayaquil, […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, five people reported to the judicial police that they were victims of abductions in Guayaquil between 8:00 p.m. last Monday and 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday June 15th. Four of the victims reported being abducted when returning to their homes in taxicabs. In one incident, a green car intercepted the taxicab with the […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, on June 14th three businesses in the Guayas providence were robbed. Reportedly, two of the businesses were cased at dawn the same day. The first assault was against a jewelry business, Montero, at 2:40 pm. The owner and an employee were tending to a customer that began to assault them after another […]
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According to Ecuadorenvivo.com the Ecuadorian government has put aside USD 352 million for social projects in the Amazon. An Ecuadorian law that recently passed requires the government to reserve 12% of oil revenues for communities where oil is extracted. In the past, a dollar was given to local social projects for every barrel of extracted […]
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According to ELUnivierso.com the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) Humberto Cholango asked today that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador maintain the rights and freedoms of indigenous justice. This allows the indigenous communities to judge and sentence their accused. Ecuador was declared a multinational state and an intercultural society. The justice […]
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On Wednesday June 8th the National Commission of the Fight Against Illicit Trafficking of Ecuador’s Heritage, held a meeting to discuss the illegal trafficking of Ecuador’s cultural property. Interpol reports that the drug trafficking, arms, sex trade, and trade of cultural property are the three largest illegal money-moving networks in the world. Ecuador has lost […]
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ElComercio.com reports that a bus flipped this morning, June 17th, around 10:30 a.m. on the Ambato-Pillaro road. The bus was traveling the route of Quito-Pillaro with 30 passengers belonging to a group of retired Social Security members from Quito. The accident left four dead and 12 wounded. Police report that the bus lost control of […]
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According to ElComercio.com at 7:00 in the morning on Friday June 17th police arrested a foreigner, Dameus B. who was trying to enter Ecuador at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre airport with 32 people. Dameus was dressed in religious clothes, as was the rest of the group. Police report that Dameus was already under investigation in Ecuador […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Friday at 10 a.m. a taxi carrying four people fell down an abyss, 200 meters deep, in Salasaca in the province of Tungurahua. Amazingly the driver and three passengers survived the accident reports police in a preliminary investigation. The accident was probably due to speeding. The driver was able to escape […]
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According to ElUniverso.com 5 Bangladesh citizens were deported from Colombia to Ecuador via the International Bridge Rumichaca. The situation, as reported by the Administrative Department of Colombia (DAS), the arrests occurred when the Bangladeshis arrived at a ‘puerto seco’ and were arrested along the northern coast of Colombia. Authorities say that the Bangladeshis were trying […]
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According to Ecuadorenvivo.com Ecuador’s secretary of commerce and investment meet with officials from Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Trade Wednesday June 15th to discuss the possibility of entering into a technical cooperation organization specialized in SMEs, small and medium enterprises, of Turkey. The trade agreement wishes to expand access to international markets for Ecuadorian projects […]
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Ecuadorenvivo.com reports that Interior Minister, Jose Serrano with the National Police commander, Patricio Franco and commander of the Navy, Daniel Donoso visited the area, San Lorenzo, Thursday, where many robberies have been occurring. Last Saturday 10-armed men assaulted the villagers of this island. The men robbed the community on speedboats. About 20 families live on […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec in Quito UNASUR’s Secretary General announced Thursday that the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) plans to invest USD 96 billion in infrastructure projects by 2022, for all its member countries. Maria Emma Mejia, the secretary, said that about 500 initiatives are being evaluated in the South American Council for Infrastructure and […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a legislator of the Democratic Popular Movement (MPD) Linder Altafuya is questioning the destruction of mining machinery on May 21 by three ministers of the Biodiversity Committee of the National Assembly. Altafuya is questioning the legality of the actions by these minister that left one wounded and more than 67 earthmovers destroyed […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Counternarcotic Police of Guayas have seized over seven and a-half tons of drugs within the province of Guayas. In 2010, seven and 300 kilos of drugs were seized. The police say that the figure government measures are aiding in toppling drug traffickers and their organizations. Last week, 55 kilos of drugs […]
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Ecuadorenvivo.com reports that the Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOC) has detected the presence of a new aguaje, sea current, during the days of the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June. The current was detected off the Ecuadorian coast. The National Risk Management agency says that they are issuing coastal warning of an increase in […]
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According to Ecuavisa.com Byron Cornejo Coba was arrested for carrying a pistol without a permit in the Guayas province. In May of 2010 he was accused of extorting money, USD 10,000, from a Cost Rican captain for the release of his vessel. Allegedly there was video evidence. When arrested USD 1,000 was found on his […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the second Court of Criminal Penalties in Azuay today, Thursday June 16th, sentences Juan Carlos Albin to six years in prison for the death of Edwin Barros. Barros was killed by a gunshot to the head after a police chase on December 2. Albin was charged with felony murder and convicted on […]
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According to Enlaceecudor.com President Rafael Correa of Ecuador will send a draft of amendments to the Law of Special Regiment for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Province of the Galapagos on the 15th of July to the National Assembly of Ecuador. Environmental Minister Marcela Aguinaga confirms this announcement. Aguinaga says that the law […]
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Yesterday, Wednesday June 15th, the families of Nelson Ch., who disappeared Friday, were performing a search of the forest in El Troje along Av. Simon Bolivar in the south of Quito, reports ElComercio.com During the search they found a naked corpse, beheaded and without limbs or head. Police were called. Beside the corpse, police say […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec some police believe that the increase of government and police resources is not causing a decrease in crime. Wilson Alulema, Guayaquil chief of the National Police, says that cime stopping will be hard if society itself is ’broken.’ Policeman Diego Armendariz’s funeral was on Wednesday June 14th after criminals killed him Monday. […]
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ElComercio.com reports that on Wednesday June 15th at 8 a.m. the lifeless body of Corporal Eduardo Alcivar was found on the Rio Napo in Orellana province. The Ecuadorian army released a statement the same day. Corporal Alcivar and conscript Juan Alava were on the Rio Napo when their Vilma boat sank anchored at the pierz […]
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According to ElComercio, Louis J. was standing in his front yard, in La Pradera, talking to a friend Tuesday June 14th at 5 p.m. when two men on motorcycles stopped in front of his house. The men asked for the whereabouts of Louis J.’s son, and Louis J. refused to give them information, the men […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec the government has decided to backtrack on an issue of their tax reform and review the tax on cars. The basis of electrical consumption for subsidy elimination was changed as well. Also, the green tax is under review. The business community believes that these moves are politically motivated. President Rafael Correa stated […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec the National Police will start safety circuits to combat crime. All units will cover about 4 kilometers of specific patrol. Forty-seven areas will be patrolled in Guayaquil at the beginning. The units are elite police groups that deal with specific crimes, ‘express kidnapping,’ extortion, killing, and drug trafficking among others. The Ecuadorian […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec residents of Tungurahua tried to prevent Coanda machinery from entering the new San Francisco hydroelectric power plant with sticks and stones. About 40 families in the area burned tires and tried to block the entries of the plant with tractors. The residents are upset since they say that the contractor does not […]
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According to Terra.com.ar the defendants who include former president Carlos Menem, his former private secretary Emir Yoma and former Defense Minister Oscar Camillon with many others, acknowledge the existence of the sales to Croatia and Ecuador stated prosecutor Mariano Borinsky. On Tuesday June 13th the prosecution began the arguments for their case. The defendants blame […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the killing of a policeman, Darwin Anrango in the morning of March 19th in Pintag, east of Quito has been connected to the murder of two young Colombians this past Saturday in northern Quito. Anrango was found in a dump in a courtyard of a vehicle business. Police discovered that it was […]
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According to Ecuadorenvivo.com the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) will launch a vaccination campaign against measles on Monday June 20th. The MSP is concerned with reports of increased cases and outbreaks of the disease in the Americas. In Ecuador the last case of measles was in 1996, but in April 2011 the Pan American Health […]
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According in Hoy.com.ec Interior Minister Jose Serrano and Security Minister Homero Arellano defended the military operation where 67 “retroescapadoras,” or earthmover used for illegal mining and extraction by small-scale miners in the San Lorenzo canton. The two ministers state that in eight months these miners were able to extract more than USD 100 million without […]
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According to ElComercio, the two journalists who were sued by President Rafael Correa for ‘moral damage’ filled a countersuit of USD 400,000 Tuesday June 14th. The government on The 28th of February sued AFP editor of Vanguardia magazine, Juan Carlos Calderon and Christian Zurita. The two collaborated on the book ‘Big Brother’ which was about […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec Galso Lara, assemblyman of the party Sociedad Patriotica and member of the fiscal and political control Commission presented the Legislative Management Council (CAL) an impeachment request against Ximena Ponce, Minister of Social and Economic Inclusion. The press release stated that Ponce dialed to conduct a necessary check in order to prevent fraud […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the National Assembly in Quito approved the Law for Control and Regulation of Tobacco passed with 111 votes. The new legislation bans smoking in enclosed public spaces including restaurants, workplaces, public transportation or sports centers. Fines and other penalties will be issued when the law is broken. The law also prohibits smoking […]
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