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  Almost 300 members of the Kichwa community El Eden, in Orellana, protested yesterday by a “critical financial situation” because of an alleged noncompliance of payments and agreements by the state company Petroamazonas and several subcontractors. This would...

The approval of the Law of the Elderly in the National Assembly is one of the requests that the directors of the National Coordinator of Retirees of Ecuador (Coorjube for its Spanish acronym) made yesterday to President Rafael Correa through a communiqué sent to the Carondelet...

  Fedexpor CEO Felipe Rivadeneira recommends that the negotiations for trade agreements with Europe must be pragmatic and asked the highest authorities of the country to unblock this lack of approval from Colombia and Peru in order to authorize the accession of Ecuador to...

  Former Vice President Alberto Dahik, in an interview with Ecuavisa said that Ecuador should benefit from an economic recovery program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as no other international organization can offer to the country more convenient rates and...

  The leaders of the social and indigenous organizations are meeting today, from 16:00, in the Prefecture of Loja to prepare the protest convened on 11 November, which demands the file of constitutional amendments.   Other meetings will be held in coming days in...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday warned the Congress he plans to eliminate in the next 60 days trade preferences granted to South African agricultural products under the AGOA program (African Growth and Opportunities Act). According to the White House, this initiative is...

  The Doing Business report, published by the World Bank, ranked Ecuador 117th in the global ranking, while in 2014 the country was 18 positions below.   If only the twelve South American countries ssessed (excluding French Guyana) were taken into account, Ecuador would...

  Social Security for bus drivers, that is the proposal of the ruling party for this strategic sector, which could be compared to an army for its size.   This was announced by the PAIS Alliance legislator and member of the Commision on Legislative Administration Fausto...

  In an interview with El Comercio newspaper, the State Attorney General, Diego Garcia, speaks on the arbitration process of the Oxy case. He indicates that the arbitration process has cost about 0.8% of the proposed amount by Oxy, which was $ 3.370 million.   On the...

A police car and a private vehicle were detained as they drove down a street in the Arenillas county. Four policemen used them to transport illegal goods of Peruvian origin.   Intelligence staff of the police reported the fact to the Customs Control Service of this...