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In the Legislative Headquarters on Monday, 145 Ecuadorians were credited as National Heroes and Heroines (121 civilians, 19 soldiers and five policemen), who will receive a pension of two unified basic salaries, housing, scholarships, among other benefits granted by the heroes...

The president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, pledged on Monday to punish those responsible for the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, on an alleged joint action of local police and drug traffickers. Authorities are still investigating whether among the 28 corpses found over...

Scientists used patterns of spread of the Ebola disease and air traffic data to predict that there are 75% of chances that the virus will arrive to France on October 24, and a 50% that it is present in the United Kingdom for that date . France is among the countries most likely...

The Superintendency of Companies and Securities stated that the country attracted investments of $ 966 million between January and August of 2014, which represents $ 151.2 millions more than in the same period of the last year. The investment of domestic firms was of $ 612.2...

The liquidity of the Ecuadorian economy reached $ 37.109 million dollars by August of this year, according to figures from the Central Bank (ECB). This represents an increment of 15.77% compared to August from last year. Diego Martinez, representative of the President in the...

Ecuador exceeded the goal of reduction of poverty measured by incomes, considering that in 2013 the objective was to bring it down to 26.3%, but it reached the 25.6%. This result allows that the projection for 2017 is down to 20%, President Rafael Correa said during his latest...

The Faculty of Administrative Sciences of the Universidad Central del Ecuador was the first to implement on Saturday 4th October, the complexive exam for students who have not graduated, despite having finished school several years ago. In total, 716 people showed up to perform...

The British-American researcher John O’Keefe and the Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser received the Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering a system of ‘internal GPS’ in the brain. “The laureates discovered a positioning system,”...

The process for the partial renewal of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) advances and on October 6 starts the challengesphase. Where until Wednesday October 16, citizens have time to object to any of the 67 participants who aspire to be part of the...

According to a World Bank (WB) report, growth  has been inclusive in Ecuador, with a direct effect on reducing the levels of poverty and inequality and the rise of the middle class. The WB noted that between 2006 and 2013, the poverty measured by incomes (using the national...