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Rousseff commits to enhance corporate governance in Petrobras

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff commited this December 18 to help implementing stricter corporate governance standards in the state oil company Petrobras, involved in the worst case of corruption in its history. In a speech in Brasilia, Rousseff urged Brazilians not to lose...
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Law on Production Incentives will enter into last debate in the Assembly

The President of the Commission on Economic Regime, Oswaldo Larriva, announced that the President of the Assembly Gabriela Rivadeneira informed him that the second and final debate of the Incentives to the Production and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion draft law would be discussed...
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Ecuador finished the environmental cooperation with Germany and returns $ 8.5 million for funding

Chancellor Ricardo Patiño announced on Friday, December 19 the unilateral termination of German cooperation on environmental issues and the return of the funds received last year that are estimated at EUR 7 million (about $ 8.5 million). Although he said that the Ecuador...
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Assembly Commission defines changes to the Armed Forces

The report for the second debate of the draft reforms to the Law of Staff of the Armed Forces is ready. The Commission of Sovereignty of the Assembly welcomed some changes that were suggested in the plenary. The first relates to promotion. According to the bill, the general...
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Correa to allies of PAIS movement: “The battle is all about communications …” to confront 2017 and 2019 elections

Political public officials who are allied to the political party Alianza PAIS (AP), approachment to people and a communication battle to face the 2017 and 2019 elections, is what President Rafael Correa asks to his AP movement. At the Convention Center in Quitumbe, south of...
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FBI: North Korea is responsible for cyber attack on Sony

The FBI accused this Friday the government of North Korea as being responsible for the spectacular cyber attack against the Sony Pictures studio, which led to the cancellation of the film “The Interview,” before threats against cinemas. “The FBI has enough...
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Five Colombian soldiers die after combats with the FARC

Five soldiers died in combat with the FARC in a rural area of the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, western Colombia, on the eve of a unilateral ceasefire announced by the guerrillas, the army reported on Friday. “We have the misfortune of five soldiers who were...
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Eight children presumably stabbed are found dead in Australia

Eight children were found dead this Friday in a house in a city of northern Australia, the police reported. The bodies of children between 18 months and 15 years, who allegedly  died stabbed, were found next to a wounded woman, who according to the police could be their mother. A...
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Rafael Correa will travel to China in January

One of the objectives of the international agenda for 2015 is to obtain funding for public projects. With this objective, President Rafael Correa will visit China in the first half of January. The President noted that Chinese authorities are interested in the country and that was...
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Investment Plan for the EU is approved by their Heads of State

The investment plan promoted by President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was approved on Thursday by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and now will wait the conditions to contribute money to the future fund. Meeting in Brussels summit,...
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