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Blanca Sacancela
Blanca Lucrecia Sacancela Quishpe is an Ecuadorian politician who served as a member of Ecuador's National Assembly. She defended the position of President Lasso who in May 2023 had to resign to avoid being impeached. He used a constitutional clause that required every assembly member, including Sacancela, to resign. Life Sacancela is a member of Ecuador's National Assembly and a member of the Permanent Commission of the Economic and Tax Regime and its Regulation and Control. In January 2022, she presented her draft of an Organic Law of Communes and Communities to the National Assembly. In June 2022, Yeseña Guamaní was called to defend a charge of breach of duties. A hearing was established which included assembly members Wilma Andrade, Ana Belén Cordero, Vanessa Freire and Sacancela. In March 2023 she failed to get a debate at the National Assembly regarding her proposal that the assembly's members should give 50% of their salaries to the victims of the recent earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly (Ecuador)
The National Assembly () is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislative branch, legislature of Ecuador. It replaced the National Congress (Ecuador), National Congress in 2009 following reforms under the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, 2008 Constitution. Within politics of ecuador, Ecuador, the National Assembly has the power to pass legislation, laws, while appointment of judges to the Politics of Ecuador#Judicial branch, National Court of Justice is done by a separate Judicial Council. Eligibility According to Article 119 of the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, candidates to the National Assembly must meet the following requirements: * Be an Ecuadorian national. * Be at least 18 years of age at the time of registering for one's candidacy * Be in possession of political rights Ecuadorian general election, 2025 Presidency For a list of presidents see: List of presidents of the National Assembly of Ecuador. See also * National Congress of Ecuador * Politics of Ecuador * List of leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creating Opportunities
Creating Opportunities (, CREO, the acronym means , and also means ) is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Ecuador. In the 2021 general election, its leader, Guillermo Lasso was elected for president. Ideology Generally considered a centre-right to right-wing party, CREO's candidate in the 2021 presidential elections ran on a more centrist platform: his economic development model was mainly market-oriented and favoring entrepreneurship, but also promised state support to micro-enterprises and upgrading of education. With conservatism and economic liberalism. Lasso promoted an independent judiciary and free speech (the opposition and civil rights organizations consider judicial autonomy and press freedom to be threatened under the administration of President Rafael Correa). History In the 2013 presidential election, Lasso was placed second with 22.7% of the votes, having been endorsed also by the Social Christian Party and the ''Madera de Guerrero'' movement of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contains the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, about west of the mainland. The country's Capital city, capital is Quito and its largest city is Guayaquil. The land that comprises modern-day Ecuador was once home to several groups of Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, indigenous peoples that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonized by the Spanish Empire during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia, from which it emerged as a sovereign state in 1830. The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its million people being mestizos, followed by large minorities of Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeseña Guamaní
Ludvia Yeseña Guamáni Vásquez is an Ecuadorian politician. She represents a constituency in the Andes and the Democratic Left party. Until 2022 she was a vice-president of the National Assembly. Life She was born in about 1987. Her school was called the Domingo Savio Salesian Educational Unit and it was in Cayambe. She studied Social Communication at the Politecnica Salesiana University in Quito. Her father Edwin Marcelo Guamaní and his brother, Reinado, were both local politicians. Her uncle was the mayor and her father became the councilor for the Cayambe Canton. Her father was a member of the Democratic Left and that became her party. She worked in state radio and then state TV for ten years. She became a TV presenter and she then worked at Ecuador's Ministry of Education and its Ministry of the Environment. Guamaní is keen on wild animals in her country. left, Guamaní presents a law relating to companion animals in April 2022 She was elected to the National Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Andrade
Wilma Piedad Andrade Muñoz (born 26 August 1956) is an Ecuadorian politician. Since 2017, she has served as a member of the National Assembly, after she was elected as part of the Democratic Left. In 2024 she became Ecuador's ambassador to Spain. Biography Andrade was born in Quito, the daughter of Gonzalo Andrade Arteta and Piedad Muñoz de Andrade; she is the second of four siblings. She is married to Marco Morales and is the mother of three children: Marco, Pablo and Lorena. Political career The Democratic Left nominated Andrade as a candidate for the Quito Council, a position she held for three consecutive terms, reaching, on her reelection, the largest vote in Quito granted to a woman up to that date. She was unanimously elected as Vice Mayor of the Council of the Metropolitan Municipality of Quito, in two terms from 2002 to 2006. In 2016, Andrade achieved the re-registration of the Democratic Left, as a political party in Ecuador, as its leader. She was elected preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Belén Cordero
Ana Belén Cordero Cuesta is an Ecuadorian politician serving in National Assembly (Ecuador), Ecuador's National Assembly from 2021. She is a member of the Creating Opportunities (CREO) party. Life She was born in Quito and lived in Guayaquil for around twenty years. She studied at the Nuevo Mundo school, completing her higher studies at the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo (UEES), continuing at the University of Salamanca in Spain and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). Cordero obtained a master's degree in business law from USFQ and another in political management from the American George Washington University. Cordero entered the National Assembly on 21 May 2021 as she had stood as the alternate for César Monge who was promoted to be a minister. She is elected to the Assembly members of the fourth legislative period of the National Assembly of Ecuador, 4th Assembly on the national list. She is an elected m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Freire
Freire Vergara Vanessa Lorena (born July 3, 1978) is an Ecuador politician. In 2021 she was a member of Union for Hope. She is a member of the National Assembly Life Freire was born in Babahoyo. She studied Business Administration at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador. In February 2021 she was elected to be a member of the fourth National Assembly of Ecuador. In July 2021 Freire left the Union for Hope citing organisation differences. In 2022 she was an independent assembly member, she was aligned with the "Bank of the National Agreement" group, but her, and seven others, loyalty was questioned as that group was in decline. In June 2022 she was representing the ruling party at a hearing established to try a charge against Yeseña Guamaní Ludvia Yeseña Guamáni Vásquez is an Ecuadorian politician. She represents a constituency in the Andes and the Democratic Left party. Until 2022 she was a vice-president of the National Assembly. Life She was born in about 1987. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Guayas Earthquake
A strong earthquake struck southern Ecuador on 18 March 2023. It measured 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale, and struck with a hypocenter deep. The epicenter was located in the Gulf of Guayaquil, off the coast of Balao Canton and about south of Guayaquil. There was major damage, 446 injuries and 18 fatalities in Ecuador's El Oro, Azuay and Guayas provinces. Two additional fatalities and dozens of injuries were reported in Peru. Tectonic setting The active tectonics of Ecuador is dominated by the effects of the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate. Ecuador lies within the Northern Volcanic Zone where the subduction zone is moving at a rate of 7 cm/yr to the east-northeast, significantly oblique to the trend of this segment of the Andes. The subduction zone has an overall dip of 25–30°, but varies rapidly along strike due to the effects of subduction of the Carnegie Ridge. The Carnegie Ridge is an oceanic plateau that formed as the Nazca plate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |