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The Constitutional Guarantees Commission of the National Assembly is advancing with the investigation of the Pandora Papers, which revealed that before being president, Guillermo Lasso had links with 14 companies in countries or jurisdictions considered tax havens. Lasso said he had dissolved the companies in 2017, after a law was passed that prohibited officials and politicians from being beneficiaries of companies domiciled in tax havens....

Pandora papers investigation moves ahead in National Assembly, Lasso says half-a-billion dollars paid in taxes - The Cuenca Dispatch Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The Constitutional Guarantees Commission of the National Assembly is advancing with the investigation of the Pandora Papers, which revealed that before being president, Guillermo Lasso had links with 14 companies in countries or jurisdictions considered tax havens.....

Ecuador is in position 92 out of 139 in a ranking that annually measures respect for the rule of law, a legal principle that, specifically, establishes that the law must govern, apply and protect all people who live in a country. It was famously condensed by the second president of the United States, John Adams, who said that a republic was "the government of laws and not of men."...

Ecuador ranks 92nd on the Rule of Law Index - The Cuenca Dispatch Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Ecuador is in position 92 out of 139 in a ranking that annually measures respect for the rule of law, a legal principle that, specifically, establishes that the law must govern, apply and protect all people who live in a country. It was famously condensed by the sec...

With all the talk of the Pandora Papers in the news here, it made me think back to the Pentagon Papers and the impact they had in politics in America. For those who don’t know, the Pentagon Papers were a government report from the office of the Secretary of Defense that laid out the extent of the United States’ political and military involvement in Vietnam, all the way back to 1945 and up to 1967....

Who stole my papers? - The Cuenca Dispatch Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn With all the talk of the Pandora Papers in the news here, it made me think back to the Pentagon Papers and the impact they had in politics in America. For those who don’t know, the Pentagon Papers were a government report from the office of the Secretary of Defens...

The criminal process for organized crime faced by former President Abdalá Bucaram, his son Jacobo, and five other people has been one of the most followed media reports in 2021. In the most recent event of the case, a judge ruled that the Prosecutor's Office could not prove the participation of the Bucaram in the case. On October 4th, Judge Giovanny Freire dismissed father, son, Verónica Araujo and Bryan Pérez and called only three people to trial: the Israeli Oren Sheinman, the Peruvian-born Orietta Marengo, Sheinman's partner, and the former agent of Quito metropolitan transit, Leandro Berrones. ...

Organized crime charges against Abdalá and Jacobo Bucaram are dismissed - The Cuenca Dispatch Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The criminal process for organized crime faced by former President Abdalá Bucaram, his son Jacobo, and five other people has been one of the most followed media reports in 2021. In the most recent event of the case, a judge ruled that the Prosecutor’s Office coul...