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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday suggested the Government to desist “immediately its attacks against independent human rights organizations in Ecuador,” referring to the dissolution of the Fundamedios NGO. “The arbitrary closure of the organization would...

  Sunday organizations will hold a charity marathon in El Arbolito park. They are seeking donations for the detainees and wounded in the protests of August 13. The leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), Jorge Herrera, along with lawyers and various...

$ 331,000 will be invested by the National Assembly to spread to the the population, in an advertising campaign of four days, the importance of citizen dialogues, according to the records of the Public Procurement Service (Sercop). In the award resolution, the Assembly points out...

The former president of the republic, Alberto Dahik, presented Wednesday preparatory measures for a possible economic recession in Ecuador.   Eliminating subsidies as those currently applied to gas, gasoline and diesel, and determining a compensation for urban transport to...

  The prefects of Carchi, Sucumbíos, Imbabura and Esmeraldas are part of the Northern Commonwealth, which has asked the Government to review the percentage of safeguards applied as a measure to improve the situation in those provinces. “What we are asking for is a...

Falling oil prices also splashes the wings of the of the poultry sector, which prevents it from taking flight so high, in an economic sense, as it would like. Pablo Anhalzer, president of the National Poultry Farmers Corporation of Ecuador (Conave), said that although the local...