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The Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Monday, December 15 the seventh case of Chikunguña virus in Ecuador and the one ofhigher risk, for having been detected in an area of high transmissibility. This is the first case diagnosed in Guayaquil, which along with the one of Manta...

Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica, said that the Audiovisual Communication Services bill, next to be debated in the Senate, seeks to prevent monopolies and oligopolies in the sector. The ruling party Frente Amplio wants to establish with this law the regulation of services...

Google closed on Tuesday the Google News service in Spain due to a copyright law that would force the Spanish publications to receive a payment for the content included in the platform. The Spanish page of Google News, normally full of aggregate media content, faded away and...

Following the approval by the National Assembly, of the draft amendments to the Law on Land Transport, Traffic and Road Safety, last December 4, the Alianza PAIS (AP) Assemblywoman Soledad Buendía, the Director of the driving school Cevial, Guillermo Bustamante, an...

The leadership of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) announced on December 15 actions to avoid the eviction of the facilities where it works since 1991, after having been notified by the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) with the...

The Legislative Commission on Food Sovereignty was responsible for analyzing yesterday the draft report for the first debate of the Land and Ancestral Domain bill. In this text is recommended the realization of the pre-legislative consultation process. “Considering the...

In tax matters, the country ended the year with significant changes. The Incentives and Prevention of Evasion Act, which passed its first debate in the Assembly yesterday plans to change the behavior of about five sectors of the economy. Within this group is the banana sector....

The Minister of Education, Augusto Espinosa, submitted yesterday the results of the reclassification of teachers in the public sector. In the first year, there were 26,379 who upgraded the teacher´s scale. Until 2013, there were 102,000 qualified teachers eligible to apply for...

Violent clashes were registered on early Sunday between uniformed, hooded, unionized teachers and friends of the 43 missing  students since September. The crash occurred in the Mexican state of Guerrero (south), during preparations for a concert to be held in solidarity with the...

After the collapse on Saturday at Camp 4 of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project, where 13 Ecuadorians and 3 Chinese citizens died, the workers decided yesterday to temporarily paralyze the work in the engine room. One of them, Daniel Lescano, said that three days before...