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Commission will discuss veto to the Telecommunications Law

The Commission of Autonomous Governments will analyze on January 21 the partial veto to the Telecommunications Law submitted by the Executive branch. The session is scheduled at 17:00. This was confirmed by Assemblyman Angel Vilema (AP), who is Vice President of the Commission....
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Hospital of IESS is declared in emergency

The chairman of the board of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS for its Spanish acronym), Victor Hugo Villacrés, announced the morning of January 21 the declaration of emergency of the hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, of Guayaquil. According to Villacrés, the...
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First historic round of talks between US and Cuba concludes today

Cuba and the United States began this Wednesday in Havana two days of talks aimed at restoring diplomatic relations and other topics of bilateral interest. The meeting started in the presence of the press at 09:00 local time, and continued behind closed doors in a hall of the...
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Russia accuses US of wanting “world domination” with their policies

The United States was accused by Russia of wanting to “rule the world” after the speech on the Union State, delivered on Tuesday by President Barack Obama. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference, said that “America has chosen the path...
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University of Austria could not identify DNA of the 43 missing in Mexico

The University of Innsbruck in Austria, responsible for determining whether the 16 remains found in Cocula, Guerrero, belong to the 43 normalists of Ayotzinapa was unsuccessful in its work due to excessive heat to which they were subjected, said yesterday the Attorney...
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The private financial system is healthy according to the president of the Association of Private Banks

During the congress “Dollarization, 15 years later, a comprehensive vision,” organized since 19 to 22 January by the Espiritu Santo University (UEES for its Spanish acronym), the President of the Association of Private Banks César Robalino analyzed the evolution of...
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IMF downwards the growth forecasts of the world

The institution directed by Christine Lagarde indicated that the world will grow less than they had estimated in October, when even then, expectations had already been lowered with relation to the previous ones. The global growth for 2015 is expected to be between 3.5% and 3.7%,...
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14 new laws would be pending on the legislative agenda of Alianza PAIS

The twelve coordinators of Alianza PAIS (AP) are scheduled to meet this January 21 to define the date of the workshops,where the legislative agenda for this year will be discussed. President Rafael Correa would not attend these meetings, but the Secretary of Political Management,...
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Obama: The US Congress must lift the trade embargo on Cuba

US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the US Congress must start “this year” lifting the trade embargo on Cuba, following its change in policy towards the island. “In Cuba, we finished with a policy whose expiration date had been passed a long time ago...
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Correa remains firm in maintaining safeguards against currency devaluations

President Rafael Correa, yesterday defended the right of Ecuador to impose tariffs on products from Colombia and Peru, as safeguards to exchange currency devaluations. “We are in contact to make the measures more flexible, to carry out consensus, but Ecuador has the right...
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