On Friday, President Lenín Moreno vetoed in its entirety, the draft Organic Health Code (COS), which had been approved and submitted by the National Assembly. The legal secretary of the Presidency, Johana Pesántez, read the official letter sent by Moreno to the Assembly at a press conference together with the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Over the last few months, Plan International studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and young women around the world. Their comprehensive study resulted in a 36-page report titled, “Halting Lives: The impact of COVID-19on girls […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

In our “Updates” feature, we follow up on some of our most read stories over the last few weeks. Our goal is to bring our readers up to speed on any news that adds to, changes, or increases the impact of previous topics we’ve covered. Update to: In the middle of a fraud and now […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.

By Romina Mella, from IDL-Reporteros / Stefan Melichar and Michael Nikbakhsh, from Profil; and ORF of Austria (Translated from the original Spanish published by IDL-Reporters, Lima – Peru) Luiz Eduardo da Rocha Soares was one of the Odebrecht executives who knew all about the money laundering system for the payment of bribes that Odebrecht set up from the […] To access this post, you must purchase The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Monthly or The Cuenca Dispatch Subscription – Annual.