Ministry of National Defence (Ecuador)
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The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

is the ministry responsible for national defense and is responsible for controlling all three branches of the Military of Ecuador
Military of Ecuador
The Military of Ecuador is under civilian control. The commander-in-chief is the President of Ecuador, currently Rafael Correa. The military of Ecuador has been involved in border disputes with Peru , and has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.-Mission:The...

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Besides controls and manages the various barracks, military zones and monuments homelands where battles have been important throughout the country. The headquarters of the Ministry is in the city of Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

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Is the backbone of the state, responsible for ensuring the governability of the nation, peace and public security, the maintenance of democracy and full respect to the Constitution
Constitution
A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is...

 and Human Rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

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The ministry is part of the Secretary General of the National Security Council (Cosine).
has contributed to the space program through the FAE for the opportunities of the program in civil security, national and military intelligence, including espionage, and possible development of weapons technology to aerospace.
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