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Ecuador received 15 million tourists in 2014

According to the Ministry of Tourism, about 1.5 million foreigners, mainly Colombians, Americans and Peruvians, visited Ecuador in 2014, registering a new record, as stated. The provision of 1.5 million foreign tourists was surpassed on Monday, until the accounting of 241 other...
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Prefect Jairala was not present at hearing against Cesar Monje

The prefect of Guayas, Jimmy Jairala, who sued the director of the Creando Oportunidades political movement (CREO), Cesar Monge, failed to appear at the first of 17 hearings to be conducted in a similar number of criminal charges by defamatory libel. The hearing, which took place...
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Pro-democracy demonstrators return to the protests in Hong Kong

Pro-democracy protesters returned to take the streets of Hong Kong this Wednesday on the occasion of Christmas Eve, to ask for a “true universal suffrage” in the first mass demonstration since the last camp was evacuated last week. One hundred protesters walked to the...
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President Correa entertained children and recalled the fight against child labor

President Rafael Correa in his last working day of 2014 celebrated on December 23 with children from Guayaquil and Duran,assisted by the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion. Correa arrived to the Parque Lago (km 26 on the way to the coast) and had breakfast with the...
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Maduro will create greater State for Venezuela’s economic recovery

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced that in “the coming days” will install “greater State for the recovery of the economy” as part of the measures to be taken by the Executive to stabilize the economy in Venezuela for 2015. “Before...
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Fumigations cause effects in the border according to the CIF

The Inter-Institutional Committee organization against Fumigation said yesterday that the agreement between Ecuador and Colombia, signed in September 2013, would not be met. The non-governmental organization said that distances from one to five kilometers would have been sprayed...
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Land draft Law will be approved for 2015

The Organic Law on Rural Land will be processed in 2015 at the National Assembly. The report for the first debate of this legislation (of 113 articles, five general provisions, eight transitional and five derogations) is ready at the Commission on Food Sovereignty, incharge of...
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Mexican federal forces assume security in towns of Michoacan

The Army and the Federal Police of Mexico will assume full control of various areas of the southwestern state of Michoacán, replacing the Rural Force corporation, created to legalize the civil defense groups, an official source reported today. The federal commissioner for...
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Febres-Cordero grandson asks for respect to human rights of the former President

Leon Bjarner Febres-Cordero, grandson of the former President of Ecuador Leon Febres-Cordero, gave statements about the mural located at the front of the General Attorney´s office. Bjarner Febres-Cordero noted that “the unpleasant mural has caused public repudiation.”...
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Attorney´s office states it has not yet been notified on the demand from GMO

The Attorney General’s Office (PGE for its Spanish acronym) said that it has not yet been notified on the lawsuit that would have begun the US investment fund GMO against the Republic of Ecuador because of the default the country fell in 2008 for the global bonds. “We...
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