Colombia attracted Ecuadorian buyers again

  Supply lists, technology, clothing, shoes, food and cleaning products were among the items Ecuadorians bought last weekend in Ipiales, a Colombian border city with the country. Most Ecuadorian visitors were from cities of the Sierra, like Quito, Ambato and Ibarra. School...
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Laboratory of Communications and Human Rights observes TV programming

  The Laboratory of Communication and Human Rights, created by the Ombudsman and the Council of Regulation of Communication (Cordicom), yesterday presented the first report on the monitoring of the Enhanced Protection strip in TV networks. Paulina Mogrovejo, member of the...
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Authorities are investigating alleged oil spill in a dock in La Libertad

  Citizens who live near the Superintendency dock of the Oil Terminal of La Libertad reported Tuesday strong hydrocarbon odors in the beach area of the breakwater 1 in the province of Santa Elena. After hearing the news, Santiago Tapia, of the Hydrocarbon Regulatory Agency...
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Judge orders the embargo of the half of the Naranjal territory

  No one had never before heard about the embargo of a city, Well, not the whole city, only its half. This was ordered by a judge of El Empalme in a process followed since 2014 for a debt of two and a half million dollars between civil actors. The debt was not paid and the...
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The powerful Thai Union group is interested in the Nirsa tuna company

  Several foreign specialized digital media, like Intrafish and Dealstreetasia, take for granted a “negotiation” that would have started earlier this year. Daily Expreso confirmed with seafood executives, that executives of Thai Union were in Guayaquil and...
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Ecuador sold less industrialized goods

  The opening of new markets and the reduction of costs and profit margins are the main strategies applied by exporters of industrial products in the first half of 2016. Their intention was to minimize the impact of reduced sales abroad. According to the Central Bank of...
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127 migrants from Ecuador, disappeared on their way to the US

  Twenty one bureaucratic processes for the repatriation of corpses were carried out by the Foreign Ministry through the Secretariat of the Migrant Ecuadorian Community in the last two months. These are the cases of Ecuadoreans killed in the US-Mexico border, according to...
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Dozens of mothers gave birth in the new Women´s Hospital

  The Women’s Hospital Alfredo G. Paulson opened its doors in on Monday, four days after its inauguration. Mothers and infants admitted to the obstetrician-gynecologist Hospital Enrique Sotomayor were transferred from that day to new facilities in the Atarazana...
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Alvaro Noboa: ‘I’ll be a presidential choice until I die’

  Alvaro Noboa feels comfortable in his office of Industrial Molinera, in the south of Guayaquil. He expects that this week the National Electoral Council (CNE) confirms the approval of his new party Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante, which will participate in the upcoming...
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Statist politics are “passé”

  He has visited the country about four times but he confesses that, as a neighbor of the region, he has closely followed its policies and evolution. For Cristian Larroulet, the fact that The Economist Intelligence had located Ecuador as one of the worst economies in the world...
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