Tag: Ecuador

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Ex Argentine president Menem acquitted of arms shipments to Croatia and Ecuador

  

  Argentina's highest criminal court acquitted former President Carlos Menem of smuggling arms shipments to Ecuador and Croatia in the 1990s when both countries were involved in armed conflicts, overturning a 2013 conviction.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 20:30 UTC

  Menem found not guilty in arms trafficking case

  

  A Buenos Aires Federal Court of Appeals Thursday ruled in favour of acquitting former Argentine President Carlos Saúl Menem in the case for arms trafficking to Ecuador and Croatia after 23 years of legal proceedings.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Latin American countries will receive Venezuelan migrants even with expired documents

  

  Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country's hyperinflation and severe shortages, but many do not have valid passports because renewing them can take years.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  The democratic challenge to dictatorships and xenophobia in Latin America

  

  During the conference entitled “The democratic challenge to the autocracies of the 21st century in Latin America,” organized by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) on Tuesday at the Senate of Uruguay, the Government of Venezuela was described as a “dictatorship” and it was exhorted that the democratic governments of the region, especially the Uruguayan government, not be indifferent or “accomplices” against today’s Latin America’s autocratic governments.

• Sunday, August 19th 2018 - 18:26 UTC

  Complications for the diaspora: Venezuelans can only flee with a passport to Peru or Ecuador

  

  The Ministry of the Interior of Peru has announced that as of the dawn of next Saturday, August 25, Venezuelans will be required to present their passport to be admitted to the country. This measure coincides with that taken by Ecuador this week when it reached record figures in the entry of Venezuelan citizens in that country. The National Superintendency of Migrations of Peru recorded last Saturday the largest number of Venezuelan citizens who entered the country in a single day: more than 5,100.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2018 - 05:20 UTC

  Ecuadorean president visits UK; speculation about a deal on Julian Assange's future

  

  Ecuador has said its president will not discuss the future of Julian Assange during a visit to the UK. Lenin Moreno was scheduled to speak in London and later travel to Scotland to the University of Edinburgh. He will also address businessmen interested in investing in Ecuador.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Pence visits Brazil: children separated from parents and Venezuela refugees in the agenda

  

  President Michel Temer will press U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during his two-day visit to Brazil on cases of Brazilian children separated from their parents upon trying to enter the United States, a Brazilian diplomat said on Monday.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Ecuadorean ex president included in kidnapping investigation

  

  Ecuador's highest court has ordered former President Rafael Correa included in an investigation into a 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker. The judge in charge of the case gave Correa a month to clear his name.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 09:19 UTC

  UN General Assembly next president a woman: Ecuadorean foreign minister

  

  The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, president of its upcoming 73rd session, becoming the only fourth woman to hold that position in the history of the world body and the first since 2006.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 07:29 UTC

  FARC dissidents challenge Ecuador with a new abduction: a couple of civilians

  

  A group of Colombian rebels active on the Ecuadorian border has sent a “proof of life” video of a kidnapped couple, the Ecuadorian government said, the second kidnapping by the group this month.