End of preview - This article contains approximately 671 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 26 November 2015 (WR-15-47)
ECUADOR: Correa takes El Niño action ahead of protests
President Rafael Correa has decreed a state of exception in 17 of Ecuador’s 24 provinces for two months as a preventative measure ahead of the eventual arrival of the El Niño weather phenomenon. This confers on Correa the right to suspend or limit freedom of movement, association and information and will include the whole of the period during which the national assembly will debate 15 constitutional amendments, including indefinite re-election. Protest movements have planned a march on 26 November in Quito (part of Pichincha, one of the provinces included in the state of exception) and a general strike to coincide with the assembly’s debate in December.
- Macri triumph heralds biggest regional power shift in a decade
- ARGENTINA-REGION: Macri’s victory poses challenge for Maduro
- BRAZIL: Head of PT in the senate arrested
- BRAZIL: Allegations start to catch up with Cunha
- VENEZUELA: On a knife-edge
- BOLIVIA: Campaigns kick off ahead of February
- ECUADOR: Correa takes El Niño action ahead of protests
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Threatened by Isis
- GUATEMALA: Cicig names next priority
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Peru’s judiciary playing key role in presidential race
- Quotes of the week