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The drop in the price of Ecuador's biggest export, oil, forced the country to use a 30-day grace period to decide whether to make a $30 million interest payment that was due on November 15. Venezuela apparently owns structured securities tied to Ecuador's bonds that would then force Venezuela to pay $800 million if Correa does not make the payment.
Correa's government confiscated the brothers’ businesses, which included one of the most successful banks in the country, and did not afford the two brothers any due process. OHCHR ordered Ecuador to fully restore the seized properties to the Isaias brothers. The ruling brings to light the depth of Correa's corruption and abuse of power.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's top court ordered former President Rafael Correa on Wednesday to stand trial for his alleged role in the 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker.
RC has lost two straight presidential elections since Correa stepped down. The former president lives in Belgium and has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison, something he says is ...
In 2015, a 49% stake of El Tiempo was purchased by a public newspaper that often praised President Correa. [1] Lenín Moreno’s four years as president (2017-21) defused much of the tension between the government and privately-owned media after Rafael Correa’s three consecutive terms (from 2007 to 2017). [4]
A local organizer in Ecuador's Esmeraldas province for the political movement founded by ex-President Rafael Correa, was assassinated on Monday, party leaders said, less than a week after a ...
Mesías Tatamuez, leader of FUT stated that the protests weren't related to taxes and weren't intended to destabilize of the Ecuadorian government as President Correa had stated. [24] The workers' protests involved the sweeping of streets to represent the "cleansing" of corruption from Ecuador and the burning of an Alianza País flag. [24]
The same day, the Justice Department instructed Danielle Sassoon, then the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.