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After that last December 29, the Committee of Foreign Trade (Comex) approved the increase in the tariffs percentage on 588 products, including keyboards, memories, printers, calculators, laptops, etc; the tariff increase was set between the 5% and 15% in technological equipments....

The Minister of Telecommunications, Augusto Espín, said that private telephone companies Claro and Movistar reached an agreement with the Government for extending the spectrum of the 4G network. Espín said negotiations concluded with the enterprises and now “is an issue of...

Assistant Secretary of State US for Latin America, Roberta Jacobson, said on Friday than in “a few weeks” she expects a new round of talks in Washington to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. “We have not set a date yet, but we expect that this talsk take...

The state will subsidize retirement pensions in order that housewives have access to this benfit, said on Wednesday, January 21 the Minister of Labour, Carlos Marx Carrasco, in Guayaquil. This, in relation with the Social Justice and Labor Award of Household Work bills. “It...

On January 22, the Prefects of Guayas and Los Ríos, Jimmy Jairala and Marco Troya respectively, met in the plenary hall of the Provincial Council of Guayas to sign the agreement definition of limits and settle the territorial disputes in three of the four points in conflict...

Several people, including Assemblyman CREO, Andrés Páez, showed their dissatisfaction by the partial renewal of the National Court of Justice. “It is quite remarkable the high score of Judge Carlos Ramirez, without having dispatched a single judgement, having 13 advisers in...

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma announced the end of all quarantine measures taken to combat the Ebola virus due to reversing of the epidemic in the country, which has the largest number of cases. “The restrictions on the movement of people will be...

Through a popular act in the center of Guayaquil, the questions that will be part of the possible popular consultation promoted by the City Hall, with the aim to know whether or not the bus fares will be increased. With the attendance of the Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, and...

The Minister of Foreign Trade, Francisco Rivadeneira, said they have almost reached agreements with Colombia and Peru on the implementation of safeguard measures, applicable since January 5th. This announcement was made during an interview with Democracia Radio, after two weeks...

Amnesty International (AI) reported on Thursday that Mexican prosecutors failed in their investigation into the disappearance of the 43 students in September 2014 and called for a thorough examination of the complaints about the possible complicity of Mexican security forces....