As crime is becoming “more sophisticated,” only 5% of murder cases lead to a sentence. In 2022, violent deaths in Ecuador are increasing; in just two months of the current year there have already been at least 568 murders. The problem is that sentencing someone for the crime is no easier than taking down organized […]

Of every ten suitable jobs, between six and seven are occupied by men and three by women. According to figures from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (Enemdu) with a cut-off date of January 321, 2022, women lost more ‘full employment’ positions than men in the last month. Thru December 2021, women with *adequate […]

“What have we become?” That is what I was thinking late last week as I was reading the news about the Russian (Putin) invasion of Ukraine. I meant, to myself, what has man become? That we need to posture and preen like a peacock to the extent that we invade other countries? That we feel […]

The CAL qualified the draft for processing along with eight other bills proposed by assembly members. The Investment Attraction Law project, sent by President Guillermo Lasso to the National Assembly on February 22nd, has been given the green light to begin its analysis and debate by the National Assembly. The Legislative Administration Council (CAL) qualified the project and appointed […]

The Constitutional Court’s ruling cheered environmentalists and sent shock waves through the mining industry, which now must prove that projects don’t harm ecosystems or endanger species. Until recently, so-called “rights of nature” provisions that confer legal rights to rivers, forests and other ecosystems have been mostly symbolic. But late last year, Ecuador’s top court changed […]