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A narrow loser to President Lenin Moreno in last year’s presidential election, Guillermo Lasso announced Wednesday that he will run again in 2021. The leader of the center-right CREO party, Lasso made the announcement at a symposium at George Washington University in...
Elizabeth Cabezas was elected president of Ecuador’s National Assembly on Wednesday, replacing Jose Serrano who was fired on Friday. Assembly members voted to ignore a bomb threat that had been delivered moments before the assembly convened. “Today, it is time to move...
Responding to citizen complaints, the city councils of Quito and Guayaquil are considering new regulations that would allow municipal police to fine and arrest motorcyclists. Public complaints are also mounting in Cuenca, Riobamba and Manta. As the result of several...
By Seung Min Kim President Trump plans to attend the Summit of the Americas gathering next month in Peru, the White House announced Saturday — a visit that may underscore tensions in the region over the administration’s policies on immigration and trade. The trip will...
Ecuador’s National Assembly has fired its president, José Serrano, and ordered an impeachment trial for Attorney General Carlos Baca. In a marathon session Friday night in which both Serrano and Baca were allowed to present a defense, the assembly voted overwhelming...
Ecuador’s newly seated Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) voted Wednesday to dismiss Carlos Ochoa, director of the controversial media watchdog agency Supercom. The council ordered a search to begin immediately for a replacement. "Having...
President Lenin Moreno said Wednesday that the National Assembly president and attorney general must “face the consequences” of revelations of a recent audio tape scandal. Both assembly president Jose Serrano and attorney general Carlos Baca are members of Moreno’s...
Brazil and Mexico head a new list of countries with the world’s most murderous cities. According to the list compiled by Mexico’s Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice (Ccspjp), 16 of those cities are in Brazil, 12 are in Mexico and five are in the...
Attorney General Carlos Baca has ordered former president Rafael Correa to testify in an case of alleged corruption in an oil contract. Correa will be allowed to testify via video link from his home in Brussels. Baca’s order is based on an investigation by comptroller...
In the wake of multiple corruption cases, Ecuador faces a moral, political and legal crisis, according to the country's Catholic bishops. "The government must fairly investigate these cases and the courts must act expediently to regain the trust and faith of the...
For Ecuador’s cash-strapped economy, one of the biggest budget drains in 2017 were subsidies that totaled $3.47 billion. Of that, more than $3.2 billion was for diesel, gasoline and propane gas. Some say most of the subsidies should end, and the sooner the better....
By C. Edward Kelso The government of Ecuador launched an all-out war on cryptocurrency about four years ago, even going so far as to push its own state-backed version of digital money. With local lapdog media attempting to scare the country’s populace, something of a...
Despite impressive gains of the last decade, President Lenin Moreno said Friday that supporting law enforcement requires more resources than ever. In a ceremony honoring the country’s national police, Moreno also announced new agreements with the U.S. to fight drug...
Ecuador is cleaning up its diesel fuel. According to Ecuador Minister of Hydrocarbons, Carlos Pérez, when upgrades to the Esmeraldas refinery are completed in July, the diesel produced at the facility will have a particulate count of 50 to 60 pollutants per million,...
By Jamil Enrique Moscoso Villegas The followers of former president Rafael Correa have decided on a name for their new political party: Revolucion Alfarista. Their first choice was Revolucion Ciudadana, but it was already being used by Alianza Pais, the party they...
By Liam Higgins Although Wednesday’s National Assembly agenda issue was the appointment of new members of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), the attention of legislators was dominated by charges and counter-charges between the assembly...
Bus service on most interprovincial bus routes was expect to resume today but transport companies say it could be several days before all routes are serviced. The companies say the strike was limited to 24 hours and that some progress had been made in negotiations...
By Liam Higgins Ecuador’s attorney general Carlos Baca says that the president of the National Assembly and a former national comptroller living in exile in Miami are out to get him. On Monday, he released an audio tape of a telephone conversation that appears to...
The bodies of two men were recovered Monday morning at the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport after an airport employee reported seeing objects falling from a Latam jet during takeoff. Law enforcement officials say the men, believed to be Peruvian, fell from the...
By Liam Higgins With the results of the popular referendum in the books, Ecuador’s political parties are turning their attention the 2019 provincial, municipal and parochial elections. The elections take on added importance due to the number of mayors and provincial...
