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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 09:42 UTC

Tag: Ecuador

  • Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 12:50 UTC

    Noboa wants foreign military bases back in Ecuador but needs Constitutional reform for that

    Noboa intends to reform Article 5 of the Ecuadorean Constitution so as to allow foreign military bases or installations in the country to fight organized crime

    Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has submitted before the Constitutional Court (CC) a projected amendment whereby foreign military bases might be admitted in the South American country. “The present request seeks that this magistracy carries out the prior control at a first moment of the project of partial reform to the Constitution that is presented, and that, through an opinion, pronounces itself regarding the way by which it should be processed,” read the document signed by the head of state.

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  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 08:20 UTC

    Noboa extends state of emergency and curfews in parts of Ecuador

    Through Presidential Decree 377, Noboa extended the extraordinary measures for another 30 days

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Friday extended for another 30 days the state of emergency in six provinces and one canton given the “serious internal commotion” due to criminal violence. Noboa's decree provided for the extension of the measure in force since July 2 in Los Rios, Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabi, and El Oro, as well as in the Amazonian province of Orellana and the canton (municipality) Camilo Ponce Enríquez, in the province of Azuay.

  • Tuesday, August 13th 2024 - 21:41 UTC

    Ecuador's VP files gender violence complaint against Noboa

    Abad said Noboa was a “macho and misogynist” person

    Ecuadorean Vice President Verónica Abad filed a political gender violence complaint against President Daniel Noboa before Quito's Electoral Court (TCE). Although the case was submitted on Aug. 8, it was not reported until Tuesday. A TCE justice will now determine whether or not to admit the complaint.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Nationwide blackout hits Ecuador after heavy rains kill 17

    The power outages were due to “a fault in the transmission line” that caused a “cascading disconnection,” Luque explained

    Entire cities across Ecuador were left with no electricity Wednesday at around 3.30 pm just two days after Energy Minister Roberto Luque ruled out that possibility when he downplayed the importance of the cessation of activity of at least three hydroelectric power plants due to heavy rains that caused at least 17 deaths according to preliminary reports. In mid-April, a series of outages led to the dismissal of Luque's predecessor Andrea Arrobo.

  • Monday, June 3rd 2024 - 19:17 UTC

    Ecuadorian alternate lawmaker and his wife shot dead at circus function

    Through Burgos' streaming, the horror and desperation of those present went viral on social networks

    Alternate Assemblyman and social media influencer Cristhian Nieto (of the opposition Revolución Ciudadana party of former President Rafael Correa) and his wife Nicole Burgos were shot dead in the Ecuadorean port city of Manta in the province of Manabí on Sunday evening in the middle of a circus function Mrs. Nieto was broadcasting on Tik-Tok.

  • Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    ICJ issues ruling acceptable to both Ecuador and Mexico

    “These are precautionary measures, the process is not over,” AMLO argued

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands, produced a ruling Thursday that was equally welcomed by both parties in the dispute between Ecuador and Mexico over the police raid at the Embassy in Quito to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum to avoid incarceration after being convicted of corruption.

  • Monday, April 29th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

    ICJ: Now Ecuador files case against Mexico

    “We will never protect criminals,” Noboa said

    Ecuador's conservative government of President Danie Noboa Monday filed a case against Mexico before the International Cout of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague (The Netherlands) for granting asylum to a fugitive at the Embassy in Quito. Former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been sentenced to 8 years in jail for corruption, had sheltered at the mission until local authorities stormed it in disregard of all international conventions on diplomatic immunity and arrested him.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Energy crisis prompts new emergency declaration in Ecuador

    The new power crisis came just ahead of Sunday's key referendum for Noboa's government

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Friday issued a decree establishing yet another state of emergency due to a “serious internal commotion and public calamity” in the violence-torn South American country which is going through an energy crisis in addition to drug-trafficking gang crimes. Power cuts last up to about eight hours a day amid tight “rationing of electricity.”

  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Another mayor shot dead in Ecuador

    Sánchez had survived two attacks against him last year

    José Sánchez, mayor of the Ecuadorean town of Camilo Ponce Enríquez, in the canton of Azuay, was murdered Wednesday night along with two other people when his home was stormed by hitmen.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Ecuador's govt issues guidelines for application of euthanasia

    The Constitutional Court had given Noboa's government 60 days to enact the rules under which physicians would apply this ultimate treatment

    Ecuador's conservative government of President Daniel Noboa Friday issued the guidelines for the implementation of euthanasia following the Constitutional Court's (CC) instructions in a ruling granting the request of 42-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient Paola Roldán who died on March 11. The malady is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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