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In October 1st will be the election of the president of the Barcelona Sporting Club. The three precandidates are intensifying their campaigns. The general secretary of the club, Juan Carlos Lamota, sent to the Electoral Tribunal the 77 pages registry, which records the names of...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) for the general elections of 2017 aims to eliminate the intermediate scrutiny boards or at least generate operational changes to give to political delegates more access to the results of votes obtained, said Juan Pablo Pozo, president of the...

The Ministry of Foreign Trade approved the import of equipment needed for the production of bioethanol. At the request of a company, with which the state signed an investment agreement for the safeguards and tariffs exemption affecting the import of machinery that would be used...

The former ambassador of Ecuador to the Holy See, Marcelo Fernandez, and the former ambassador to London, Mauricio Gandara, agreed that the government has to withdraw the protest note sent to the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican seat in the country, by some statments made by...

Forty-five shrimp producers, grouped in the Association of Shrimp Producers Jorge Kayser (APROCAM), expect to finalize negotiations with foreign companies to export their shrimp directly to markets in the United States, China and other countries. Shrimp producers count on 1,200...

In the first half of the year, the volume of construction in the country has fallen from 1.9% to 3%. Between January and July, April was the only month in which a slight recovery took place. This were the figures the monthly survey of Business Opinion of the Central Bank of...

Since 2007, the public debt experiences an accelerated growth. In eight years, the increase is 19.132 million dollars. Of this value, what was hired this year has a special mention. There is a record in bank assets from abroad. In early 2007, the State’s commitments came to...

According to official data, between January and June this year in the country 48.5 tons of drugs of all kinds have been seized. Of that total, 7.9 were intended for minor sale. Two days ago, the government announced “zero tolerance” for possession of heroin and...

The former president of the Constituent Assembly, Alberto Acosta, responded to President Rafael Correa, who in his last weekly address said he was remorseful for being persuaded by Acosta to include the “right to resistance” in the Constitution of Montecristi in 2008....

The Government will strengthen its policy of “zero tolerance” to drugs and requires the Assembly to quickly approve a new institutional framework that is linked directly to the Presidency and thus be able to toughen penalties against micro drug trafficking. For that...