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Tax hike on special consumption products would cause an increase of smuggling, a businessman warns

  To the questionings made to the Special Consumption Tax bill for cigarettes and alcoholic and sugary drinks, announced last week by President Rafael Correa, is added that of businessman Christian Wahli, for whom the measure would only cause a drop in products sales and the...
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The high indices of happiness in Denmark and Switzerland are the result of socialist policies, says Correa

President Rafael Correa highlighted the achievements of social policies in Denmark and Switzerland, which were named countries with “the highest happiness index” by the World Happiness Report. In his Twitter the president wrote: “In the 3rd edition of the World...
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Rafael Correa renounces to have hostessing

  The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, withdrew his military aides according to a military reform that allows him to give up on those services, said Monday the official website El Ciudadano. “As explained by the president, he will not have more aides,” said...
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Cuban citizens in request an appointment with regime authorities

  Dozens of Cubans gathered yesterday at La Concepcion park, in the north of Quito. Their aim is to consolidate the Cuban National Alliance Foundation, which has already started the paperwork to begin operations. Its coordinator, Rolando Gallardo, said that although Ecuador...
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Ecuadorian national football team, with an intact illusion

  The illusion remains intact within the Ecuadorian team. Although in the last date of the qualifying rounds for the World Cup Russia-2018, the Tri team just rescued a home draw with Paraguay, the squad went yesterday to Barranquilla filled with enthusiasm, and with a view...
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The state seizes barges and obtains compensation in trial

  Barges Victoria II, of power generation, and Sky III, a fuel supplier, owned by the Intervisatrade SA company, are intervened by the state since December 24, 2014, by court order. This private company had from August 20, 2004 a concession for 25 years for the generation and...
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Argentine tourists killed in Montañita would had been drugged

  Maria Jose Coni and Marina Menegazzo, the two Argentine tourists killed in late February in Montanita, Santa Elena, would have been drugged with scopolamine, quoted last Friday in its website daily Clarin, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This media pointed out that the...
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The crisis and the traffic lights hit dairy products

Nutritional traffic lights that alert the content of sugar, fat and salt in foodstuffs led consumers to find more ‘light’ and healthy products. One of the segments affected by the decision of consumers is milk and its derivatives, which last year recorded a drop in...
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New rules for insurance investments in the public sector

  According to a new resolution of the Board of Monetary and Financial Regulation, insurance companies must invest their technical reserves and “at least the sixty percent (60%) of paid capital and legal reserve, in financial instruments, stock market and other...
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Fander Falconi tweets that that the rich marry each other and generate social inequality

Former Foreign Minister Fander Falconi has tweeted that “another cause that generates social inequality” is that “the rich marry each other and do not distribute wealth.” Falconi, who is a professor at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute, has...
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