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  Ecuador was welcomed with great fanfare upon its arrival at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, during the official welcome of the tricolor team in Brazil, whose central axis was the hoisting of the national flag, which already flames awaiting for the opening ceremony...

  Monday Vice President Jorge Glas Espinel will sign the concession contract for 50 years under the Public-Private Partnership modality with the Turkish consortium Yilport Holding Inc., in order to modernize the Puerto Bolivar terminal. An investment of 700 million dollars...

  The magic of Galapagos, with its enigmatic nature and its unique species, never ceases to amaze the world. A new study conducted by German scientists and an Ecuadorian ornithologist reveals that frigate birds can sleep a few seconds while flying. The sleep study brought...

  The Front for the Defense of the Amazon (FDA), an organization that would be the beneficiary of environmental verdict against Chevron, announced yesterday that it has cut relations with attorney Pablo Fajardo “after he raised illegally, and without the FDA approval,...

  Legislator Veronica Arias, of the Regional Action for Equity (ARE) political movement, proposed to the Assembly and the Executive branch eleven changes to the Constitution to be processed via amendments or referéndum along with the question of the “ethical...

    An “Involuntary mistake.” This is the expression used in a bulletin of the Ministry of Defense to clarify the statements of Minister Ricardo Patino on the staff reduction of the Armed Forces to 35,000 miitaries in “2020.” On Monday, during a tour...

  Citizens of legal age can now replace the field of sex by gender in their identity cards,_ as established by the Identity Management and Civil Data Act. The Civil Registry opened yesterday this service in Guayaquil, which will be also offered in three other cities: Quito,...

  The national robusta variety is among the best in the world. The price of a quintal reached $ 225. What Anecafé (National Association of Coffee Exporters for its Spanish acronym) found in the first Gold Cup contest was phenomenal: coffees with unique qualities only a great...

  Yesterday Ecuadorian businessman Alvaro reported that the National Electoral Council approved his political party Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante with 186,806 affiliations. Thus, the number of affiliations approved from large provinces is 109 982 (58.8%) and from small provinces...

  The abrupt session characterized by shouts marked the beginning of the debate on the reforms to Social Security laws of the Armed Forces and the National Police, promoted by President Rafael Correa, that was held yesterday at the Commission on Rights of the Workers of the...