LatinNews Daily - 06 August 2025

*Leonidas Iza, the president of the umbrella indigenous organisation Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie), Alianza de Organizaciones por los Derechos Humanos, a collective of Ecuadorean human rights organisations, and Viviana Veloz, a national deputy for the main left-wing opposition Revolución Ciudadana (RC), have welcomed the 4 August decision by Ecuador’s constitutional court (CC), to suspend aspects of key legislation approved by the national assembly in June. These include articles relating to a law of public integrity, which allows the public sector to contract financial derivatives to hedge against commodity price fluctuations and thereby avoid unexpected losses. The CC also suspended aspects of a new intelligence law which creates a clearer legal framework for intelligence and counterintelligence operations, and a national solidarity law whereby under a declared state of ‘internal armed conflict’, the security forces would have free reign to use lethal force in situations otherwise prohibited under Ecuadorean law. The legislation, which the government led by President Daniel Noboa maintained was necessary to address the threat posed by organised crime, had drawn criticism both domestically and abroad for violating constitutional rights, among other objections. US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) for instance acknowledged that while Ecuador urgently needs to address the threat posed by organised crime, the legislation was “overly broad”. HRW’s Americas director, Juanita Goebertus, also yesterday criticised the government for its “attacks” on the CC after the minister for government, Zaida Rovira, accused the court of not acting in a neutral manner in relation to the 4 August ruling.

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