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Friday, May 24, 2013
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations |
| Title: | Las Fuerzas Armadas seran reestructuradas |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Entre los retos que tienen con la milicia estan articular el rol de la defensa de la soberania con la participacion activa en la defensa de los derechos y garantias ciudadanas, participar tambien en los temas de seguridad interna |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | News Email, Politics And Security |
| Title: | South America re-election rash: Ecuador's Correa takes office for the third consecutive time |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | Correa pledged this week he will not run for re-election and trusts that some candidate will emerge from the ruling party or cadres to continue in 2017 |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Rafael Correa sume lo que asegura sera su ultimo periodo |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Correa asumio por primera vez el poder el 15 de enero del 2007, y al culminar esta gestion de cuatro anos mas sumara diez en el ejercicio politico |
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Extraditions, Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | FARC, Relations With Ecuador |
| Title: | Colombia a la espera de llevarse a presunto guerriller​o de las FARC |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Es solicitado por la justicia colombiana que lo acusa de ser el jefe de finanzas de Frente 48 de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Human Rights, Press Freedom |
| Title: | Dos visiones de situacion de DD.HH. al ano de evaluacion |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Se registran "un aumento sustancial de las agresiones contra periodistas, juicios a ciudadanos por haber ejercido su derecho a la protesta, incremento de discurso hostil contra la prensa" |
Friday, May 17, 2013
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne C. Richard Travels to Ecuador and Colombia |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | In Colombia, Assistant Secretary Richard will meet with Colombian government officials, Constitutional Court Magistrates, community leaders, women's organizations, and youth participants in a forced recruitment prevention project. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Elections |
| Title: | OAS praises Ecuador 'civic spirit' and suggests regulating use of public resources for electoral purposes |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | The Chief of Mission applauded the high participation of Ecuadorians in the election and said that "the public expressed its will at the polls freely and without obstacles." |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Human Trafficking |
| Title: | Ecuador stops Sri Lanka-US migrant smuggling ring |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Lanka Business Online |
| Brief: | A ring that smuggled immigrants from India and Sri Lanka into the United States through Ecuador has been broken up with the arrest of six people. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Public Health |
| Title: | Ecuador defiende programas de anticoncepcion ante el aumento de los embarazos adolescentes |
| Author/Source: | EFE Yahoo! News |
| Brief: | El Gobierno de Ecuador defendio hoy su politica de planificacion familiar, que incluye programas sobre metodos de anticoncepcion, ante el aumento de los embarazos de adolescentes, que crecieron un 78 % entre 2000 y 2010, |
Thursday, May 16, 2013
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | FF.AA. y Policia salen en patrullajes conjuntos despues de crimenes |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio |
| Brief: | Desde el miercoles 8, convoyes del Ejercito recorren el centro y la periferia de Machala. La Policia asigno 200 clases y 30 oficiales para el operativo conjunto. |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ecuador's New Legislature Takes Office |
| Author/Source: | Bernama |
| Brief: | With an absolute majority, Correa's government seeks to first pass a controversial communications law that is pending in congress and that calls for the creation of a council to oversee media content and sanction violations. |
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations |
| Title: | Universidad de FF.AA. se especializaria en industria militar |
| Author/Source: | La Hora (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Entre los proyectos que planifica la Secretaria Nacional de Educacion Superior, Ciencia y Tecnologia (Senescyt) esta la creacion de la Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Elections |
| Title: | CNE revisa informes de Unasur en Galapagos |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Las autoridades del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) viajaron por dos dias a Galapagos (a la isla Santa Cruz) para reunirse con miembros de la Union de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur) y tratar sobre las observaciones que este organismo emitio sobre las el |