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Tuesday afternoon March 1, 2016, Fernando Cordero announced his resignation to the Ministry of Defence.  In a short speech at the headquarters of the ministry, he stressed that his administration has proposed the modernization of the Armed Forces in a planned way and respecting...

    The first resource recovery could be given today. The state could recover $ 570,000 as a result of a trial repetition. The ruling will be announced at 15:00, in the Administrative Court. That money is the payment made to Army Colonel Jose Mejia, who in 2000 was declared...

  President Rafael Correa referred to the controversy sparked by the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Luis Garzon, by demanding that the military are assigned $ 3 daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.   Despite doing office work, living and working in Quito Monday...

  President Rafael Correa commented in this regard: “It may be considered an offense to the country any desperate father of a family does these things (…) It is quite understandable, the case is in the hands of the prosecution, I do not know if the law allows...

  The National Association of Agribusiness Producers (Fenamaíz) speaks of an explosive plant disease. And asks for the state of emergency. “We are strongly affected by the disease caused by three viruses transmitted by insects Dalbulus maidis, Diabrotica sp, among...

  Yesterday (February 29, 2016), President Rafael Correa announced the awarding of the concession of the Puerto Bolivar berth, in El Oro province, to the Turkish consortium Yilport. This firm is the only one that took part in the public tender of the Port Authority of Puerto...

  Ecuador closed 2015 with 357,892 unemployed people, 13% more than in 2007, which totaled 316,697 and if comparing the percentage of unemployed people in relation to the economically active population (EAP), there is no a significant variation in both years: the...

  The Constitutional Court (CC) declared admissible the claim of unconstitutionality of the the Special Regime Law of Galapagos published in June 2015, but dismissed the requested precautionary measures. The action was filed in August this year by Fanny Uribe, Angel Vilema,...

  A report by the Comptroller´s office notes that the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) paid the Recapt company, which is responsible for scheduling medical appointments by telephone, $ 4.6 million for “ghost calls.” This involves calls from numbers...

  The alarm turned on by farmers concerning the smuggling of rice and milk has almost taken a month, according to the exclusive published by Daily Expreso. Now the Agriculture chamber of Zone II, requests a meeting with authorities, specific actions such as eliminating taxes...