Industry requests less taxes in exchange of subsidies

Neither the commercial and industrial sectors are still able to reveal the impact that the end of subsidies will have on production costs, since they do not find it easy to calculate the rise in fuel prices, following the formula to calculate the presidential decree. Therefore,...
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More personnel and local materials for the construction sector

The construction sector sees in the Public – Private Partnership bill a business option. By the economic crisis works in the sector are down and as a result the demand for labor has been negative for eight months this year; in August it was -2.3% (latest figure available),...
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Congress of aquaculture and Aquaexpo 2015 began

Monday night the XVII Aquaculture Ecuadorian Congress & Aquaexpo 2015 was inaugurated, which will run until Thursday, has among its goals to discuss advances in nutrition and innovations in the cultivation of larvae. José Antonio Camposano, president of the Chamber of...
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Peruvian airline would come to Ecuador in 2016

Carlos Carmona, general manager of LC El Comercio de Peru., indicates that the airline would connect Lima with Guayaquil and Quito, as detailed by the daily El Comercio de Peru. Ecuador would be the first international route of LC El Comercio de Peru. At present Peru and Ecuador...
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Imports recorded their worst fall in 72 months

  Last August was the worst month for imports in the last 72 months. Purchases abroad fell by -32.69% over the same month of 2014, according to the Central Bank.   The figures show that the sharpest decline was in fuels (-44.66%), followed by capital goods (-32.02%) and...
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Two Waorani views faced in the IACHR

The main leaders of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador (Nawe) expressed different views on the protection to the rights of peoples in voluntary isolation in the Amazon: the Tagaeri and Taromenane. Alicia Cahuiya was the first to be called as a witness in the ‘Case 12,979 of...
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Assemblywoman demands Lourdes Tibán

Assemblywoman Maria Jose Carrion (AP) yesterday presented before the National Court, a criminal complaint for the crime against the right to honor and reputation against Assemblywoman Lourdes Tibán (Pachakutik), based on a complaint she filed against Tiban for physical violence...
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To be, or not to be

By: Diana Acosta In the deafening silence of my attic, I reread Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Third act, in the first line of the soliloquy arose the question: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of...
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The signature dispute to run for 2017 elections

  17 political organizations are facing the dispute over the signatures for their recognition before the National Electoral Council. At least 175,132 signatures must be submitted, ie the equivalent to 1.5% of the electoral register of the last election of the jurisdiction....
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Confrontation at Correa´s limit 

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, invited on broadcast TV signal, the CREO Assemblyman Andres Paez to “fix” the political differences outside the traditional spheres, the opposition has used the scenario to revive the criticism of the attitude of the president...
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