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  • Ecuador will sell animal feed to Colombia because of landslide

    A collapse in southwestern Colombia caused the destruction of a section of the Pan-American highway on January 9, 2023, leaving the southeast of that country isolated. Ecuador will export balanced foods for domestic and farm animals to Colombia, as a consequence of the collapse that destroyed a sect...

  • Alexis Mera gets pre-release after three and a half years in prison

    Alexis Mera, former legal secretary of Rafael Correa, was sentenced to eight years in prison for the Sobornos Case 2012-2016, in 2020. The decision was made by Galo Rodríguez, Ambato Penitentiary Guarantees Judge (Tungurahua), on the morning of January 27, 2023. Alexis Mera will have to leave the Ja...

  • Jorge Glas Unification of Sentences Granted

    Judge Melissa Muñoz accepted Jorge Glas‘ request for unification of sentences. The former vice president will no longer have to complete his six-year prison sentence for illicit association, in the Odebrecht case, but will only have to serve the eight-year sentence for bribery, in the Bribery ...

  • Ecuador declares illegal mining a threat to state security

    The State Public Security Council (Cosepe) resolved to declare illegal mining a threat to state security. The announcement was made by the Secretary of Security, Diego Ordóñez, at a press conference held in Carondelet, after a meeting of the Council of Public Security and State (Cosepe). According t...

  • International Reserves registered their highest level since the start of dollarization

    International Reserves (IR) stood at USD 9,353 million on January 20, 2023, reaching its highest level since the start of dollarization. This high level of reserves allows covering 100% of the liabilities of the first and second balance system of the Central Bank of Ecuador, and 32% of the third. In...

  • Government denounces 28 candidates for links to drug trafficking

    Juan Zapata, Minister of the Interior, presented information on these candidates to the Prosecutor’s Office. There are eight open investigations for the so-called narcopolitics. The information was delivered by Zapata, at the offices of the State Attorney General’s Office, on the morning...

  • Constitutional Court dismissed the 7 members of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control

    The Plenary of the Constitutional Court resolved the dismissal of the 7 members of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS). The reason? The ” deliberate and systematic” failure to designate the head of the Council of the Judiciary.  The resolution was issued on t...