Although Ecuador was the first country in the region to recognize the rights of nature in its Constitution, animals are considered movable property, comparable to objects, according to the Civil Code. This could change in the coming days, since the Constitutional Court selected the Estrellita case to analyze if fauna is a subject of law, […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

This Sunday, the plenary of the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE), unanimously denied the subjective appeal raised by the Pachakutik (PK) movement and its candidate Yaku Pérez, against the results of the election of the presidential binomial of Ecuador’s first electoral round. The ruling denies the appeal filed by Yaku Pérez, candidate for the Presidency of the Republic […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

Ecuador’s head of Foreign Trade, Iván Ontaneda, reported this Friday in a meeting with US investors that in 2020, the country registered a “historical” record of non-oil exports of almost $15 billion, despite the circumstances of the pandemic. “There was an increase in volume and diversification of 10% compared to 2019,” said the Minister. Ontaneda […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

I’m writing this in a hurry this morning, not because of a publishing deadline, but because we lost power again sometime in the middle of the night—and still don’t have it back yet—and I don’t have enough juice left in the old laptop to waste, waxing and waning about what I’m going to write. Here’s […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.