Voters in Ecuador on Sunday voted to reinstate a two-term limit for elected officials, with 64 percent of voters in favor of referendum question 2, which would amend the constitution so that all elected officials can only...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Cristián Correa of the International Center for Transitional Justice discusses how waterboarding, if not torturous treatment, is at the very least illegal... In a recent academic commentary, Professor Jeffrey F. Addicott claims that the use of waterboarding...
Ecuador's National Assembly on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits, beginning in 2021. The 16 constitutional amendments were approved in a vote of 100-8 in a legislature where sitting President Rafael Correa's political...
Spain judge orders trial for former ruling party treasurers in graft scandal
A Spanish High Court judge on Thursday ordered 40 people, including three former ruling party treasurers, to stand trial over a bribes-for-contracts scheme. Investigation into the Gurtel scandal began in 2009...
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador on Friday ruled that congress may vote on proposal to allow unlimited re-election terms. The case was brought to the court by the ruling Alianza...
Colombia transfers inmates to solve prison overcrowding problem
The Colombia Ministry of Justice on Friday announced a new initiative to solve the problem of overcrowding in the nation's prisons. INPEC , Colombia's prison institute, has begun the transfer of 800 inmates [Columbia...
Rights commission urges Ecuador president to suspend sentencing in libel suit
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and his administration on Tuesday to postpone the sentencing of El Universo managers convicted of...
Carlos Perez, one of four El Universo managers convicted of libel against Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa , was granted asylum by Panama on Thursday. El Universo is the...
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Tuesday enacted an antitrust law, provisions of which further his conflict with the country's news media. The new law specifically bars news media owners and bankers...
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa won a criminal libel claim on Thursday against the owners and a columnist of newspaper El Universo , resulting in...
