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Andres Paez ensures that protests against tax reform will go to 70 cities

Assemblyman Andres Paez (CREO), announces that the protests against tax reforms promoted by the national government will be activated through a public network that hopes to convene 70 cities in order to avoid further increases in taxes. On the purpose of the protests, Paez said,...
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Police seizes about 400 kilos of cocaine in Manabi

345 brick type blocks containing about 400 kilos of cocaine were found in Montecristi, Friday night April 8, explained Vicente Parraga, prosecutor of Manabi. The blocks were stored in jute bags. Four people, including a minor, were detained for investigations. Parraga explained...
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Drug trafficking and insecurity leave their mark in Esmeraldas

She had a feeling that her firstborn Elkin, 9, would return home scared, even wounded, but alive. Jessica Nazareno, 31, waited anxiously after a sharp pain in the belly mader her go to bed around 14:00 of March 4, when she heard that her son had disappeared: “The pain of a...
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The Cepal revises its estimates for 2016 and puts Ecuador in a negative balance

The country’s economy would decline by 0.1% compared to a previous 0.3 The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has revised its forecasts for 2016 and estimates that Ecuador will not grow but its GDP will fall back by 0.1%. In its previous...
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The army tracks guerrilla bases in Ecuador

Every week, the Army runs up to three insert operations in the jungle. The points are diverse. Only the boundary line of Sucumbios -without including Esmeraldas and Carchi- has 170 kilometers. The military knows that this sector is vulnerable. The Jungle Battalion 56 Tungurahua...
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School supply lists go up to $ 500 and parents see ways to afford them

Lists of books and school supplies requested by private schools range from $ 130 to over $ 510. Only this, without counting the cost of uniforms, some schools exceed the limit established by the Ministry of Education of these three school items, which are set acording to a basic...
Posted On 10 Apr 2016
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A poison that runs through the country

Pollution within the mining area extends to 17 rivers of 6 provinces. The products of these areas do not pass government inspection   There´s no minning in Guayaquil, but there´s mining pollution there. Although four large golfields belong to the southern extractive area:...
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The backstage of the ‘Panama Papers’ investigation was like this:

The first invitations to reporters from various countries to participate in the project were in charge of Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). In the early stage of the investigation, now known as Panama...
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Anabella Azín: “The Assembly will be important in 2017”

The defunct Institutional Renewal Party of National Action founded by businessman Alvaro Noboa became the first political force in the former National Congress. The Prian bases are born with a new organization that currently been submitted 301,600 signatures of support. They hope...
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