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The collective YASunidos will start a campaign called ‘Eye on Petroamazonas,’ a citizen observatory that will monitor the work done by the state company Petroamazonas in the Yasuni area. According to a team member, David Suarez, this campaign includes two edges...

The Committee on Rights of Workers received yesterday the two observations made by the Executive power to the Reform Act that seeks to transfer 54 funds to the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess). The main objection made by the President concerns the...

On November 15, it is expected that the final text of the draft Reformatory Labour Code is submitted. The Minister for Industrial Relations, Carlos Marx Carrasco, said there are three issues already defined: the figure of the null dismissal mainly for pregnant women, the...

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez continues hospitalized this Thursday, so she canceled her participation in the G20 summit to be held next week in Australia, due to an intestinal infection that will require at least 10 days of rest, the government reported. Economy...

Today, the expulsion of the Argentine Catholic priest, José Mercau, sentenced in 2011 to 14 years in prison for sexual abuse of five children was officially announced. “The Holy Father has declared the resignation of José Mercau, priest from the clerical state,” was...

The Minister of Foreign Trade Francisco Rivadeneira said on November 6, he aims to start “as soon as possible” the negotiations on a free trade agreement with Japan, during his first official visit to the Asiatic country. The main objective of his visit is...

President Rafael Correa will visit on October 6 an area of the Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where it is planned to extract oil, an initiative that has sparked protests and even a lawsuit against Ecuador at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will not prosecute Israel for the assault on a humanitarian fleet bound for Gaza in May 2010 that killed eleven Turkish citizens in international waters. The chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, in a statement said this Thursday that...

President Barack Obama yesterday confirmed his promise to issue decrees on immigration matters at the end of the year, despite the election results that yesterday gave Republicans the control of Congress. Obama said he will contact the leaders of both blocs in Congress “to...

The Selection Committee for the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) announced that the draw for the two directors who must leave the office will be held on November 27. Currently, the commission is in the merit qualification stage of 66 applicants, who...