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Amazon founder was helped by Ecuadorian Navy

During a cruise tourism in the Galapagos Islands, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and The Washington Post owner, was helped on last January 1st by a helicopter from the Regional Directorate of Aquatic Spaces and Insular Guard (Dirgin) , which moved him to Bahia Academia on...
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The minimum wage increases and so does the value of municipal and traffic fines

After the minimum wage (mw) ascended from $ 318 to $ 340, automatically the values ​​of fines generated by traffic and municipal police, which are based on the mw, were also modified. For example, third class violations, which amount to two basic salaries increased from $ 636 to...
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Hercules Storm has taken 9 lives so far and frozen a third of U.S.

The first winter storm of the year, Hercules, forced the country to stop a third of its territory due to the low temperatures, which have killed nine people, among other calamities. In the states of New York and New Jersey, the authorities already declared a state of emergency...
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Politicians begin to ask for work permits for campaigning

For now three politicians have applied for labor licenses to promote themselves in the official campaign of the 2014 Sectional Elections, including President Rafael Correa, who asked for two days, the prefect of the Guayas, Jimmy Jairala and Mayor of Quito Augusto Barrera, last...
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New Juan Pueblo is exhibited on the Malecon del Salado

Guayaquil has a new monument and tourist attraction for its citizens. The second sculpture of Juan Pueblo, the most representative character from Guayaquil, was put on the Malecon Del Salado. Juan Pueblo, cartoon created 96 years ago by Jaime Salinas, was redesigned by artist...
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Audience in the case Chevron III is suspended

The Chevron case III went back into suspension, after the International Court in charge to carry out the audience from 20 January to 7 February in Washington  suspended it temporarily. The demand contemplated for the Ecuadorian State to assume the compensation for environmental...
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Gupc Consortium could paralyze widening of Panama Canal

  In a questionnaire answered by Paolo Moder, Member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), responsible for the expansion of the Panama Canal, denounces the “doublespeak” of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), and deny that it seeks to...
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Agricultural sector expects improvement in 2014

While livestock, banana and potato producers catalogued 2013 as one of the years of greater economic losses, a report released by the Central Bank of Ecuador indicated that six products have substantially increased their exports. Products and increments are: shrimp in 351,7...
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