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The Environment Ministry yesterday modified the entrance and departure schedules of the pedestrian bridge that links Guayaquil with Santay Island, which opened on Tuesday April 2. ” The opening hours of the bridge will be 6:00 to 21:00, while access to the island Santay...

U.S. President Barack Obama met yesterday with the President-elect of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, to whom he conveyed his full support as well as strongly condemned the Russian “aggression” to his country and the annexation of Crimea. Poroshenko, elected last May 25,...

Since August the Superintendency of Communication (Supercom for its Spanish acronym) will start checking the publication´s number of copies in circulation of public and private print media of Ecuador. The Article 90 of the current Communications Law explains that the press...

Last Wednesday during a discussion with international media at the Carondelet Palace, president Rafael Correa reported that over half of the reserves of Ecuadorian gold were used as collateral for a loan with the bank Goldman Sachs. Gold reserves “serve as collateral for a...

During the 44th meeting of the Organization of American States on economic development with social inclusion, Ecuador recommended that the organism leaves its permanent headquarters in Washington. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said during his participation in the...

The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) is negotiating in these days the rates that will be applied to the users. Diego Martínez, President of the BCE, said that although he can not yet disclose the amounts of the fees, these will be much lower than those...

The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, will be tried, after this Thursday, by the local justice which ruled so, therefore, he could be sentenced to 10 years in prison according to Venezuelan laws. The decision was known after a long and extense day of deliberations that...

President Rafael Correa will not participate in the deliberations of the G77 + China summit scheduled for June 15 in Santa Cruz (Bolivia). “The problem is that on June 15 (Sunday) is the Father’s Day in Ecuador. So it will be very complicated, as i’m a father,...

This Thursday the environmental group Amazonia Vive, which supports the government’s proposal to exploit the oil inside the ITT block of the Yasuni National Park, will march today from the El Arbolito park to the Carondelet Palace, to grant President Rafael Correa with all...

As expected, with 88.7% of the vote, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was reelected again in his country. The victory of the president was held last Wednesday in all areas controlled by the government inside Syrian territory. The two contenders of Al-Assad, the deputy of the...