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Assemblyman Henry Cucalon is the new director of the Madera de Guerrero party, a regional political movement created in 2009 by the Mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot, and through which won reelection. Cucalon, a 42 year old lawyer, is an Assemblyman representing the Social...

  The increase in the price of beer will force consumers to opt for drinks with higher alcohol content and lower prices coming from smuggling. This is the thesis of manufacturers of food and beverages (Anfab) when the tax increase to spirit drinks begins to be applied,...

  The appeareance of French Brazilian journalist Manuela Picq before the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament in mid-February did not please the National Government. Through a letter dated March 10, 2016, the Ecuadorian Mission to the European Union...

  The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) injected a $ 294 million liquidity to the Central Government in the last week of March. In the balance sheets published by this entity there is an account called Debt securities, which grew from USD 2 172.2 million...

In Ecuador, the government has tried to boost several this new way of virtual payment, but only a few have implemented that offer. Otherwise, you have to look at the figures. Only $ 800,000 in electronic money are in the accounts of the Central Bank. To give dimension to that...

  The special consumption tax (ICE) for fixed and mobile telephony the government seeks to revive through the draft Organic Law for the Balance of Public Finances, represents 35.52% of all that is expected to be collected with the tax reforms. The bill is discussed these...

  The electoral register has historical errors. Wilson Hinojosa, director of the Electoral Register of the National Electoral Council (CNE), made it clear after the questionings of computer technicians of political organizations. The Civil Registry also eluded this...

  The investigations coordinator of the international consortium of journalists that revealed the so-called “Panama Papers,” Marina Walker, says that the names of Prosecutor Galo Chiriboga, former president of the Central Bank Pedro Delgado and former...

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) has reported that some of its leaders have been called by the prosecution of Morona Santiago to give their version of the commission for alleged crimes of attack or resistance during the mobilizations of August...

  A study, involving organizations such as UNICEF, warns that teenagers have access to drugs in educational institutions in Ecuador.   For his part, Minister of Education Augusto Espinosa, questioned the data of this report and said that the government is working on an...