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The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Helen Clark, during the inauguration of the VII Ministerial Forum on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico City (Mexico), said that between 2002 and 2012 Latin American countries...

Health authorities of 34 American countries, yesterday, October 30, approved “lines of action” against Ebola, when closing a two-day workshop in Cuba. Delegates from all American countries recommended “establishing the epidemiological surveillance” to...

The Chamber of Mines of Ecuador (CME), welcomes the decision of the national government of transparenting how will be the negotiation with investors of mining projects that occur in the country. However, the CME believes that the mining law is incomplete, since Decree 475, issued...

The charge of 0.5% on purchases paid by credit card will be appreciated in a subsequent statement to the purchase. The tax went into effect on October 28, which is applied to loans made ​​in financial institutions controlled by the Superintendency of Banks, including credit card...

After nine days of hearing, the Attorney General of the Nation, Galo Chiriboga, began his closing argument.  Ie, he had to decide whether or not he accused the 11 involved in ‘Las Dolores’ case. The official accused Erick S. as the author of constitutive extrajudicial execution...

Chile initiated the cultivation of the first seeds of marijuana for medical use, officially approved in a municipal land, an unprecedented initiative in this area in Latin America. The seeding began on Wednesday October 29 with the germination of cannabis seeds that will later be...

The Virgin Galactic space ship SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight in the Mojave (California), the California Highway Patrol reported. One person was killed and another seriously injured after the accident this Friday as reported by CNN. “During the test, the vehicle...

Defenders of animal rights and pets marched from El Ejido park in Quito to the National Assembly to deliver the draft Organic Law on Animal Welfare (LOBA for its Spanish acronym), supported by the ruling party Assemblymembers Soledad Buendía, Marcela Aguiñaga and Rosana Alvarado....

The Alianza País block met at the Carondelet Palace to reestablish their agenda for the remainder of 2014 and early 2015. Of the 24 projects that were expected to be performed this year, nine have been approved. Five are in the first debate, five are set for second debate, three...

The Coordinator Minister of Strategic Sectors Rafael Poveda, signed on Wednesday October 29 an understandingmemorandum for strategic cooperation with China’s Chinalco corporation. According to a press release from the Ministry, this company is the world’s alumina...