How to face the drug gangs in an increasingly violent Ecuador? The right-wing presidential candidate Daniel Noboa proposed on Tuesday to create a system of high seas prison ships to keep inmates away from “the non-violent” and disconnect them from their criminal networks. The calls “prison barges“would have the capacity to”300 or 400 inmates” and […]
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Citizen Revolution asks that Ecuador’s elections be repeated abroad
Citizen revolutionthe Ecuadorian political party that won the elections last Sunday, calls from Europe for the elections to be repeated abroad, after having reported failures and cyberattacks in telematic voting. In statements to EFE, the director of Revolución Ciudadana Europa, Margarita Guerrero, confirmed this Tuesday that only about 81,000 Ecuadorians on the continent registered on […]
Petroecuador will abide by the plebiscite that orders to stop oil exploitation in the Amazon
state company Petroecuador announced this Monday that it will abide by the historic victory achieved by environmental groups in the national referendum held on Sunday to stop the exploitation of Block 43-ITT, an important oil field for the country, located in the Yasuní National Park, considered the heart of the amazon ecuadorian In a statement, […]
Ecuador votes to suspend oil extraction in a part of the Amazon
Ecuadorians voted to suspend part of the oil extraction in an Amazon reserve, according to the results of a historic referendum on Sunday that is considered a world example of the climate debate. The Yes to leave the crude underground only in the emblematic block 43 within the great Yasuní reserve obtained the support of […]
Noboa gives a surprise, he would go to the runoff in Ecuador against González with 20% of votes counted
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Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Noboa would go to the ballot for the presidency of Ecuadoraccording to official data released on Sunday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) with almost 20% of the votes counted. Millions of Ecuadorians voted in presidential and legislative elections on Sunday after a campaign marred by bloodshed, amid voters’ hopes that […]
Ecuador: According to exit results, correista Luisa González leads preferences
After the polls closed in Ecuadorthe results were disseminated by word of mouth, prepared by Corpmont Marketing y Publicidad Corpmontpubli SA was the channel RTS the one released its unofficial results of the anticipated presidential and legislative elections on August 20, reported El Universo. Of the four legal persons and one natural person that were […]
Elections in Ecuador: candidate Zurita votes with extreme police protection
This Sunday, August 20, more than 13 million Ecuadorians go to vote in the general elections in a first round to elect their next head of state. This will be an election day marked by the assassination of the candidate Fernando Villavicencio when he was leaving a rally in Quito, on August 9. Precisely, the […]
Ecuador will say yes or no this Sunday to the exploitation of oil in the Amazon
the future of Petroleum in Ecuador is being played in an unprecedented and historic national plebiscite that will decide this Sunday whether to stop exploiting one of its main oil deposits, in a vote where environmentalists want to give the world an example of protecting the amazon through the popular vote and the oil tankers […]
Ecuador: next president will have to face security crisis
Until a few years ago Ecuador It was considered by its inhabitants a country of peace. Now Ecuadorians have a shared slogan for the president who wins the elections next sunday: security. Delinquency and organized crime have turned the territory of the Andean country into a space without tranquility in the last three years, with […]
The ten keys to the Ecuadorian elections
Ecuador will hold its extraordinary presidential and legislative elections this Sunday, immersed in a deep and complex security crisis that had one of its most tragic episodes with the recent assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians are summoned to the polls to elect the new members of the Presidency, […]