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President Rafael Correa inaugurated on December 22 energy projects, an airport and a hospital in the Galapagos Islands. He toured the Santa Cruz island as part of the opening events of the Baltra wind projects, Puerto Ayora photovoltaic ptoject and the Transmission System...

The Archive of the US Homeland Security released on Monday an official report of Mexico, which states that at least 17 policemen from that country, allegedly involved with Los Zetas cartel, were arrested by the slaughter of 72 migrants in August 2010 in Tamaulipas (northeast)....

With 91 votes in favor, 20 against and 4 abstentions, the Production Incentives and Tax Fraud Prevention Law was approved yesterday.  A proposal from Alianza País and the production sector was included in this law, which states that gas cookers will have a Special Consumption Tax...

The workers sector said they are willing to lower their initial proposal to increase the Unified Basic Salary (SBU for its Spanish acronym) for 2015, in the case that employers also make flexible their position, said Jaime Arciniega, chief of the labor sector before the Conades....

The Colombian army reported on Monday that a professional soldier was kidnapped by the FARC in the Southwest of the country. The attack came one day before the mentioned guerrilla group began a unilateral ceasefire announced in Cuba on Wednesday. On Friday, in a rural area of the...

The Organization of American States (OAS) adopted yesterday, by acclamation, a support resolution to the restoration of bilateral relations between the US and Cuba. After hours of public debate behind closed doors, the states finally agreed on a formula that does not include the...