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Álvaro Noboa and Grupo Noboa company donates multipurpose sports field to the “Voluntas Dei” School in Pascuales

This February 19, businessman Álvaro Noboa and “Grupo Noboa” company made the official delivery, as benefactors, of a multipurpose pitch for the “Voluntas Dei” School in the Pascuales parish. In a gratitude event, at approximately 13h00, the institution...
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Pope Francis urges priests to avoid becoming a “showman”

The Pope Francis Thursday advised the priests to officiate the Mass to avoid behaving like a “showman” and recover “the charm of beauty and amazement, both of whom celebrated as people”. “When we see a priest who preaches sophisticated or artificial,...
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New Ministers of Foreign Trade and Housing were appointed

President Rafael Correa, through Executive Decree 585, appointed the replacement for Francisco Rivadeneira, former Minister of Foreign Trade. Diego Aulestia Valencia will be responsible for taking that position, while Maria de los Ángeles Duarte will be the new Minister for Urban...
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Colombia: Constitutional Court did not allow child adoption by homosexual couples

Colombia’s Constitutional Court denied on Wednesday the possibility that same-sex couples can adopt, but retained the option to do it when the child is the biological child of one of the two implied. “The same-sex couples can only adopt when the request rests to the...
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Ecuador and Peru reached an agreement against illegal mining

The governments of Peru and Ecuador reached an agreement on “joint operations against illegal mining and logging” in their common border, announced yesterday a source of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. The source noted that Peru and Ecuador plan to undertake...
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Crossfire between Ukrainian troops and separatist despite the ceasefire

The pro-Russian separatists have challenged the ceasefire in force once again launching this Thursday a mortar attack on Shyrokine, a village near the city of Mariupol as confirmed by local military sources. The offense has occurred minutes after the phone conversation the...
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SRI propose changes to the law of Incentives

In the coming days different amendments to the Regulation of implementation of the Law on Production Incentives will be made, said yesterday the Director of the Internal Revenue Service (SRI), Ximena Amoroso. The reforms “are of clarifying character more than anything,...
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From today three hundred agents will gradually withdrawn of Guayaquil

The Minister of Transport, Paola Carvajal, said today that 300 agents from the Transit Commission of Ecuador (CTE for its Spanish acronym) would begin their transfer to the guard of state roads. Carvajal said that these traffic agents will be on the roads of Daule, Nobol, Duran,...
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Ecuador recovers judicial archives since 1700

About 100 million folios are part of the general archives of the Judiciary Function, located in the north of Quito. The site was conditioned to preserve the judicial historical memory of the country and 1’209.480 records are kept there. There are documents dating from 1700...
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Buenos Aires carries out “silent march” a month after the death of Prosecutor Nisman

The streets of Argentina were the scene of the so-called “silent march” to “honor” the memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a month after his death in circumstances that Justice is still investigating. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered near the...
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