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The Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo was the winner for the second consecutive year of the Ballon d’Or of the 2014 season, awarded on Monday by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). As the best player of 2014, Ronaldo, 29, surpassed the Barcelona...

The Board of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS for its Spanish acronym) will adjust the amount of retirement pensions that are paid to the former employees and former servants of this institution, from $ 1,200 to $ 550 . This decision was taken after an...

While the National Electoral Council (CNE) considers the verification and validation process of signatures that political organizations submitted for registration or reinscription as a relevant event of its management, for the General Comptroller of the State it was a cause of an...

The order of the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) to the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) to return the seat that was granted to them in commodatum in 1991, is a theme that keeps the organization holding conversations and meetings....

Haiti commemorated on Monday the 5th anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince in 2010, with thousands of people still living in camps considered at risk of natural disaster and amid an intense political crisis. On Sunday, hundreds of protesters...

The FARC reported on Sunday in Havana that the Colombian army intensifies the “siege” against their units in the Llanos Orientales and the Cauca, which endangers the unilateral and indefinite truce declared last December 20. “The military siege against guerrilla...

The General Comptroller´s office indicated it will not investigate the alleged 27 banking transactions of more than $ 22 million that would have been sent from Hong Kong and Panama institutions to two people in the country, submitted by Assemblyman Andrés Páez. The institution...

Trade ministers from Ecuador, Francisco Rivadeneira, and Colombia, Cecilia Alvarez-Correa, are scheduled to meet this Wednesday January 14 in Quito. According to a press release from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Commerce, a “creative and objective dialoque on issues of...

The Interior Ministers of Spain, Germany, UK, Italy and Belgium, agreed in Paris to strengthen the control of the EU external borders, the control of travelers and broadcast content on the Internet. The meeting, held in response to the attacks that left 17 fatalities in France...

Ecuador’s foreign debt grew by 31.6% in one year. Between November 2013-2014, the figure went from $ 12,847.4 million to $ 16,913.4 million, according to a press release from the Ministry of Finance. Throughout this year there were several changes. In 2013, China’s...