Tag: Guillermo Lasso

• Thursday, September 9th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Ecuador and IMF reach agreement for disbursement of frozen US$ 6bn funds

  

  Ecuador and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, finally reached a technical agreement involving 6 billion US dollars, according to the country's economy minister Simon Cueva. The accord must still be approved by the IMF governing board but will unblock “international funds”, which have been frozen for months.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Ecuador wants to become full member of the Pacific Alliance

  

  Ecuador has requested to become a full member of the Pacific Alliance, an issue that was discussed by the country's president Guillermo Lasso during a recent visit to his Mexican peer Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Mexico allegedly announced its full support for Ecuador to join the four countries, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile block, considered the most dynamic of the Americas.

• Thursday, July 15th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  State of exception decreed in Ecuador due to covid-19 Delta variant and Delta Plus subvariant

  

  Upon confirmation of the presence of the Delta and Delta Plus variants of the Sars-Cov-2, Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, Wednesday decreed a state of exception focused exclusively on the areas where those detections have taken place.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Ecuadorean President Lasso travels to US for surgery but will stay in command

  

  Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso Sunday flew to Miami to undergo spinal cord surgery, after which he is expected to spend several days in rehabilitation.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Conservative Guillermo Lasso is sworn in as Ecuador's new president

  

  Businessman, banker and centre-right conservative politician Guillermo Lasso has been sworn in as Ecuador's new President Monday for the next four years, in a ceremony held at the National Assembly in Quito.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Chile and Bolivia go back to negotiating table in Ecuador

  

  The Governments of Chile and Bolivia and Chile held a new round of talks in Ecuador to advance in the normalization of their bilateral relations, it was reported Monday.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:45 UTC

  Third-time lucky: Lasso becomes Ecuador's president-elect

  

  Contrary to expectations, Guillermo Lasso Sunday surprisingly beat Andrés Arauz to become Ecuador's next president. Lasso, a conservative, was a sure winner in the evening as 97.91% of the votes were counted.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Conservative banker will dispute the presidential runoff in Ecuador; protests expected in Quito

  

  Ecuador's electoral authority announced on Sunday that conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso will dispute the presidential runoff next April after coming in second place in the fiercely disputed February 7 election. The third-placed finisher denounced fraud.

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 10:42 UTC

  Ecuadorean presidential runoff in April between a populist and a conservative banker

  

  Ecuadorean presidential candidate Andres Arauz, and protegé of ex populist president Rafael Correa claimed victory in Sunday's election, although exit polls indicate he will face a runoff on 11 April, according to primary results.

• Friday, April 7th 2017 - 12:18 UTC

  Ecuador's ruling party accepts a recount of votes as demanded by the opposition

  

  In a surprise move, Ecuador’s ruling party, Country Alliance, has called for a recount of the votes cast in the weekend’s presidential election. Its candidate, Lenin Moreno, had won the election by the narrowest margin, with 51.16% of the vote.