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Debt ceiling could go up due to the refinery

  The Government assesses raising the 40% legal limit of public debt in relation to the GDP, in case the financing of the Pacific Refinery is a reality. Minister of Strategic Sectors Rafael Poveda indicated that the project, which expects to process 300,000 barrels, will...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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Imprisoned Legislator charges her salary without working

  Since she was arrested for alleged corruption, in May 2015, lawmaker Esperanza G. (who belonged to the ranks of Alianza PAIS) has continued to receive her monthly salary of $ 5,009 plus additional compensations, according to the website of the Assembly. The lawmaker was...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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15 people are investigated by disappearances in a pharmacy

  The case involving the disappearance of four people in a pharmacy in Guayaquil adds new details. On Monday next week the attorney´s office will file charges against 15 people who are investigated for the alleged kidnapping and forced disappearance of Cesar Augusto Mata,...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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State Attorney Garcia says that “legal remedies” will be granted to the Isaias brother for disposal of the UN

  State Attorney Diego Garcia has referred to the report of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, in which it is determined that “legal remedies” were not granted to the Isaias brothers to defend their rights. Garcia has said that Ecuador should...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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Uncertainty among lawyers and families by the key witness

  The announcement of the Attorney General´s office (FGE) that one of the four people declared missing after the shooting occurred in November 2003 at a pharmacy in northern Guayaquil, is already in the country generated expectation in the defense of the former police...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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Exporters say that Guillaume Long expressed a ‘personal opinion’

  As “wrongheaded” Daniel Legarda, president of the Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor), called the statements of Chancellor Guillaume Long in London on regional trade agreements. Long, among other things, contended that there are several ways in which stop being...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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Pascual Del Cioppo´s company assumes bunker spillage in the Daule river

  The legal representative of the Balsera Sudamericana company (Balsasud), Lewis Grant, informed the Municipality of Guayaquil, the spillage of approximately 30 gallons of bunker fuel in the waters of the Daule river. Hours earlier, the municipality, following the relevant...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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Drinking water returns to Guayaquil after seven hours

  The Interagua corporation announced Tuesday the gradual resumption of drinking water in the city, after the spillage of 42 gallons of fuel into the Daule river, which forced to stop the untreated water process for purification and led to a general cut of the service. The...
Posted On 22 Jun 2016
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