Archive for March, 2009
For a couple of weeks there has been speculation that the presidential and mayoral campaigns of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidates in Panama received money–up to US$6 million–from David Murcia Guzman, who was last year caught in Panama after his pyramid scheme in Colombia was exposed. Today, the incumbent PRD’s presidential candidate–Balbina Herrera–claimed that she took [...]
President Correa’s election campaign was fined by the Consejo Nacional Electoral for a broadcast on government TV which featured a cover of the Beatles’ Hey Jude and displayed a Correa campaign poster int he background. Latinnews.com ($) writes:
Correa claimed that the campaign was being fined for “three seconds of a broadcast” in which a singer had [...]
Ecuador has elections coming up, in April. The official campaign period begins in 3 weeks. Candidates are collecting money through the internet and through public events like bingos and raffles. Opponents to President Correa, who is running again, are worried that he will have too much of an advantage by way of the state. But [...]
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