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A former Ecuadorean newspaper columnist requested U.S. asylum this week in Miami. He faces prison time and millions of dollars in fines in Ecuador for a criminal libel judgment due to his public criticism of President Rafael Correa. The 58-year-old is...
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Ecuador -- President Rafael Correa said Thursday he was considering a pardon for Ecuador's main opposition newspaper after the nation's highest court upheld a $42 million criminal libel verdict against it. Correa told reporters he would consult with his...
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Ecuador, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Ecuador's highest court upheld early Thurday a criminal libel verdict favoring Correa, including three-year prison terms for three executives and a columnist of the opposition newspaper El Universo, and a total of $42...
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Ecuador also expects 6.10% growth in the non oil sector and 0.28% growth in the oil industry. Central Bank President Pedro Delgado recently said that Ecuador's economy likely grew 8.5% or 9% last year. During a meeting with foreign journalists on...
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Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa is eager to attract investment to tap the country's big copper, gold and silver deposits. But he is trying to maximize government revenue from mining, and negotiations with Kinross and Chinese-owned...
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President Rafael Correa said the government is negotiating a $1.7 billion loan from China and that it had scrapped plans for a global bond sale this year. Ecuador’s 2012 budget plan is completely financed, Correa said today at a meeting with the...
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Feb 16 (Reuters) - Ecuador does not plan to issue foreign bonds this year, which would have marked the first time the nation did so since defaulting on $3.2 billion worth of foreign debt in 2008, President Rafael Correa said on Thursday. "We don't have...
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The defendants, joined by international press freedom and human rights groups, had called the case an attempt by Correa to bankrupt the country's leading opposition newspaper, El Universo, and part of a concerted campaign to stifle free speech and...
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Ecuador — Ecuador's highest court on Thursday upheld a criminal libel verdict favoring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist to three years in prison each and ordering them to pay a total of $42 million in damages.
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President Rafael Correa greets supporters outside the National Court of Justice building in Quito, Ecuador, early Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Ecuador's highest court upheld early Thurday a criminal libel verdict favoring Correa, including three-year prison...
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President Rafael Correa gestures during a press conference at the country's highest court after attending an appeal hearing in a libel suit against El Universo newspaper in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Correa sued a columnist and three...
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Photograph: Guillermo Granja/Reuters Ecuador's highest court today upheld a ruling sentencing three newspaper directors to jail and setting damages at $40 million (€30 million) for libelling leftist President Rafael Correa. "Thank God that the truth...
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The three-judge panel ruled late Wednesday that a lower court's decision to hold the paper accountable for the content of an opinion column that described President Rafael Correa as a dictator was correct. Correa sued El Universo newspaper, arguing the...
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The National Court of Justice (CNJ) sentenced the three top executives of the media company to three years in prison and fined them $40 million, denying an appeal as "out of order." Correa sued the El Universo daily in March 2011 alleging "defamatory...
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February 2012 Last updated at 07:00 ET The paper accused Rafael Correa (L) of ordering troops to fire on a hospital Ecuador's highest court has upheld the verdict against El Universo newspaper for libelling President Rafael Correa. The original ruling...
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Iran to challenge - or even attack - the US.” What follows is a string of allegations about Iran's dealings with Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries notable mostly for how little there is to them. A former Ecuadorian...
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Ecuador's highest court early on Thursday upheld a ruling sentencing three newspaper directors to jail and setting damages at $40 million for libeling leftist President Rafael Correa. The combative Correa has been sparring with local media ever since he...
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The defendants, joined by international press freedom and human rights groups, have called the case a blatant attempt by Mr. Correa to bankrupt the paper and part of a concerted campaign by Ecuador’s populist president to stifle free speech and silence...
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Ecuador — Ecuador's highest court upheld early Thurday a criminal libel verdict favoring President Rafael Correa, including three-year prison terms for three executives and a columnist of the opposition newspaper El Universo, and a total of $42 million...
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They have been sentenced to three years in prison each and a collective total of $40 million in fines, though the sentence is on appeal. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) — AP Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa destroy a copy of El Universo...
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Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born 6 April 1963 in Guayaquil) is the President of the Republic of Ecuador. A trained economist, he previously served as the country's finance minister. Full Article
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