Rafael Correa says that Lula will win against “this new villainy “

  The Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said on Friday, March 11th, that the Brazilian former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has an order of preventive detention for an alleged money laundering accusation, “will overcome this new villainy”. “I...
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Ecuador grades as “an unacceptable interference” the decree from the US President regarding Venezuela

  The Ecuadorian Government expressed his “firmed rejection” to the decision made by the US President, Barack Obama, of extending for one year the executive order that declares Venezuela as “an extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security and...
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Crisis in the Ecuadorian Dairy Industry, according to Rodrigo Lasso

The dairy businessman, Rodrigo Lasso, has commented about the situation in which the industry is being endangered by the contraband and the drop in sales. Lasso also said that the activity of this industry has a high cost in supplies, food for the animals, workforce, and the fact...
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Changes in the Ecuadorian Military

Harsh and direct declarations from a military man. The ex-general commander from the Marine, Rear Admiral Alan Molestina, said that the ex-Minister of Defense (Fernando Cordero) was incompetent, and there is no more trust in the “leader” of the Armed Forces. These...
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In Ecuador, the public administration is managed from Twitter

  This past Thursday, María Cristina Rivadeneira presented her resignation from the Ministry of Tourism, using Twitter. Rivadeneira was working as the Subsecretary of Market. But her resignation, via Twitter, just confirms a tendency: social media has reformed how the...
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CORDICOM does not clarify the intercultural scope

  CORDICOM, entity in charge of dictating the lines and political communications, has no emitted a response to the situation in which SUPERCOM sanctioned the Ecuadorian Daily, “Expreso” The president of the Council of Regulation and Development of Information and...
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The current state spending was reduced by 15 percent

  Though the State reduced its current spending by 15 percent, the cost of paying salaries grew slightly. The government cut heavily the spending of good and services, which included the import of derivate products. The cut in expenses was forced because the crude price...
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Great concern regarding five adjustments in the Ecuadorian work hours

  The changes introduced by the National Assembly to the Labour Reform has passed the first debate, and it has created great concern among businessmen and workers because there are doubts about the real benefits of the law. The Executive referred this past February 23rd the...
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Four policemen are involved in a kidnapping organization

In three steps, an operative named “Zeus”, captured 15 delinquents; among them, four active policemen were found, involved in a crime network dedicated to extortion, plagiarism, kidnapping, and armed robbery. The operative was executed in the cities of Guayaquil,...
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Washington Pesantes: “The country requires to oversee the Government”

  The Ecuadorian Attorney General, and now the leader of the movement “Unión Ecuatoriana” (M19), Washington Pesántez, maintained a conversation with the Daily “Expreso” regarding the future elections in 2017 and the process of the unity. His political...
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