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The Ministry of Education will evaluate teachers, after the results of the last assessment conducted in November and December 2012, are considered atypical and suspicious. “Qualifications significantly higher than the rest of the country,” some “about the level...

The announcement was made yesterday by Interior Minister, Jose Serrano, who said 208 officers would leave as “bad elements” that were involved in several crimes, before an auditorium full of members of the police and accompanied by almost all members of police...

Interior Minister, Jose Serrano, reported today that the Ecuadorian Police dismantled a drug trafficking network yesterday, presumably related to the Sinaloa Cartel (Mexico), in an operation in which seven people were arrested and 300 kilos of cocaine were seized. “We just...

Journalists from Ecuavisa, GamaTV and Canal 30 of Manabi, were arrested last night in El Rodeo prison of Portoviejo on charges of threatening state security. They had been told to go along with the police at 06:00 today, to carry out a surprise operation, but were stopped by...

According to the report released yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), the pace of price growth slowed in May recording a monthly variation of -0.22%, compared to 0.18% of last April and the -0.19% of May, 2012. In addition, the annual change in the...

Through an Executive Order, President Rafael Correa stated that within a period of less than a year, a new registration system for national and international social organizations must be implemented, taking into consideration the rule 982, which regulates the activities of civil...

Yesterday, the beaches of Galapagos, El Oro and Santa Elena, were affected by temporary flooding caused by waves of more than two metres in height (m). Personnel of the Navy Oceanographic Institute (Inocar) said that the unusual magnitude of the swirl, is the product of a...

After Alfredo Valdiviezo, brother of the murdered journalist, Fausto Valdiviezo, gave his version yesterday to the prosecutor, the lawyer Hector Vanegas defender Ingrid Leon Bermudez, one of the suspects arrested for the crime, allegedly revealed a document version, which is not...

Angela Garcia, came eleven days ago with a severe headache to the emergency of the Abel Gilbert Hospital, known as Guayaquil Hospital, where, after examined her, the doctors told her that she had a brain aneurysm (a rupture in the wall of an artery or vein that causes bleeding),...

A woman dressed in red who protested in defense of a green area in Istanbul, received a tear gas in the face. Another, dressed in black, protested against the Turkish government, she received a strong jet of water in the chest. The two pictures were seen around the world through...