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    Wilson Sanchez Castello, interim national director of the new party Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante, delivered yesterday 257,600 affiliation forms, in addition to the registration of 17 provincial boards, as well as the relevant documentation required by the Electoral...

  Assembly members Oswaldo Larriva (former AP) and Betty Carrillo (AP) yesterday staged a verbal confrontation during the session of the Commission on the Rights of Workers that was discussing the Labor Optimization bill, sent as an economic urgency to the Assembly by...

  The prosecution of three former judges of the Court of Guayas has began at the National Court. They are accused of alleged malfeasance. They issued a ruling in favor of outsourced workers from the Cerveceria Nacional (National Brewery company) in 2011. The plaintiffs...

  Peasants and indigenous people led by the president of the Conaie Jorge Herrera and of the Ecuarunari Carlos Perez Guartambel, yesterday asked the Commission on Food Sovereignty of the Assembly to demand the Government protective measures for small milk producers. These...

  Judge Ana Lucia Cevallos ordered custody for Hugo Mora and Pedro Vera, after they failed to attend an arraignment hearing on the money laundering investigation conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office to executives of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF). Mora and Vera...

  Ricardo Patiño will be the new defense minister replacing Fernando Cordero, said Thursday the Andes public agency. While current Culture Minister Guillaume Long will be the new foreign minister as a replacement for Patino, the agency added. Patiño served as foreign...

  The Ministry of Public Health (MSP for its Spanish acronym), the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS), the Institute of Social Security of the Armed Forces (ISSFA) and the Institute of Social Security of the National Police (ISSPOL) owe to the Society of Fight...

  According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)_ in January, revenues collected by the Income Tax (IR)_ totaled 309.6 million dollars, 27% less than January-2015. $ 553.6 million were generated by the Value Added Tax (VAT): 24% less than a year ago.   But VAT revenues...

  In the first weeks of the year, political upheavals have been a constant. And the ministers of President Rafael Correa have played a leading role in these upheavals. There are five cases they have shown setbacks. The conflict with the Andean University; the handling of...

  The Ministry of Defense and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (Comaco) have fifteen days to submit the unification plan of the training schools of the Land Forces, Navy and Air Force, according to Agreement 067 signed by Fernando Cordero hours before leaving that...