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With the presentation of the book ” From Banana Republic to the Non-Republic,” translated into Mandarin; meetings with Chinese entrepreneurs and a tour in the Zhongguancun Technology Park, were the activities fulfilled on January 5 by the President of Ecuador, Rafael...

The new pro-Russian rebels denounced violations by the troops of Kiev in terms of agreed truce last December 9 in eastern Ukraine revolted. “Ukrainian military violated the ceasefire 46 times (in the past 24 hours, counted from Sunday to Monday morning). There are four...

President Rafael Correa defended today in Beijing the cuts in the state budget of this year at USD 1,420 million. The President said that “we must respond to reality.” The Ecuadorian Ministry of Finance said Correa spoke in that way on the “sharp decline”...

A court suspended on Monday a judgment against the former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 and had arrived on a stretcher to a court to face the new trial for the genocide of indigenous Mayans. The President of the Court of Higher Risk B, in...

Indigenous members protested against the Minister for Economic and Social Inclusion, Betty Tola, during the spiritual cleansing they made at building of the Ministry, which they said, is full of negative energy. Amid shouts like “traitor”, “sold” and...

The wife of the former mayor of Iguala Jose Luis Abarca, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, was sent to prison for her alleged role as intellectual author, along with her husband, in the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. A federal judge based in the Tamaulipas state...

The National Assembly Plenary will resume since today the first debate of the Labor Justice and Recognition of Housework bill, which was suspended on December. The proposal consists of 44 items, of which 41 are amendments to the Labour Code and 3 to the Social Security Act.  It...

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, on Monday called on the country’s second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), to unilaterally cease hostilities, as the FARC did in late December. “We invite the ELN to join the initiative of an...