Javier Diaz: “The reduction in the payroll of the textile industry was between 10 and 40%”

    The collection of surcharges since March 2015, affected or not the textile sector? On this and other issues spoke with Daily Expreso Javier Diaz, president of the Textile Industry Association of Ecuador (AITE for its Spanish acronym). A 5% was paid for raw...
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“We seek to create a precedent,” says Hernan Perez

  In an interview with Daily Expreso, Hernan Perez, lawyer of daily El Universo, on the lawsuit against the Ecuadorian State, explains what his clients seek. They are seeking that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declares that the Ecuadorian State violated the...
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Internet campaign calls for tax elimination

  The Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce is promoting a campaign for the elimination of the income tax (IR). It began yesterday, through social networks. Through a newsletter, the guild asked Ecuadorians to express their support with the hashtag #NoSeasComoGaston...
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Cordes asked the Secom a clarification by INEC data

  In a letter addressed to the Ministry of Communication (Secom), the Corporation for for Development Studies (Cordes for its Spanish acronym) assured that the figures of public employment that were released in its publication Economic Charter and reproduced by this...
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5% of the existing judges were penalized with their dismissal in 2015

  95 judges were dismissed nationwide by the plenary of the Judiciary Council (CJ for its Spanish acronym) in 2015, among the most common causes: Obvious negligence, failure to attend hearings, inexcusable error and manipulation of the computer system. While for Gustavo...
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Productive sectors evaluate the impacts of El Niño

  The rains caused by El Niño phenomenon, whose start was forecasted for late December, would not be entirely negative for sectors such as forestry, shrimp and dorado catch, and could eventually boost an increase in the production of coffee and cocoa. This was estimated by...
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30 days in prison for Councilwoman of Loja after Mayor´s demand

  The Court of Justice of Loja on Monday imposed a sentence of 30 days in prison to Loja’s Councilwoman Jeannine Cruz Vaca, after facing a lawsuit filed by the mayor of Loja, Jose Bolívar Castillo, for a tweet posted by Vaca. The Councilwoman had tweeted last...
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Heinz Dieterich: ‘Maduro and Cabello have destroyed the legacy of Chavez’

The German sociologist, politician and analyst Heinz Dieterich, in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, analyzes the situation in the South American country, plunged into crisis and talks about a wear of Chavism. “Maduro and Cabello have destroyed the...
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Correa about to take $ 40,000 from Miguel Palacios

  The defense of Miguel Palacios, president of the Civic Council of Guayaquil, awaits a new response of the Constitutional Court (CC) to exhaust the ultimate stage of proceedings in the country or to file an international lawsuit. He has also expectations that at “any...
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The request of 94 Ecuadorians to President Rafael Correa for Venezuela

  A group of 94 Ecuadorians, including writers, artists, politicians, journalists, professionals and intellectuals signed a manifesto in which they ask President Rafael Correa to adopt a position that favors the democratic, pluralist and civil exit of the Venezuelan crisis...
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