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The Spanish company Repsol announced Wednesday that it sold its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) business in Peru and Ecuador to the Chilean company Abastible, for an amount of 335 million dollars (296 million euros), reported in Lima the local branch of the Iberian group. The...

Ecuador is studying the possibility of placing bonds on the international market after the strong 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Andean country over the weekend, President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Wednesday, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)...

  The alert was sounded yesterday by Mayor Jaime Nebot (08:00): the Ministry of Environment took away from the Guayas Local Government the environmental competence and its authorization to issue this licenses, such as that granted to build the new bridge that links...

  After rescue stages and the selection of shelters, the government must take action to rebuild the areas affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake of Saturday April 16. The first steps begin to be clear. The work is announced as complex. Taking a wild guess, President Correa...

  The meeting of the heads of State of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) that was scheduled for Saturday in Quito was suspended for the absence of quorum and in view of the earthquake that struck Ecuador, said Tuesday Foreign Minister of Uruguay Rodolfo Nin Novoa....

In the Pedernales county, five shelters for earthquake victims were activated. These shelters are in the Pedernales Technical School in the New Terminal, New Pedernales, Villegas and 32 de Marzo sectors. In all these there are about 1880 people. They received mattresses, sheets,...

The international community continues sending rescue workers, products and money for the earthquake victims. Once they arrive at Ecuadorian soil, the government decides the course of each contribution. The Foreign Ministry is the first filter. The head of this entity, Guillaume...

It will cost nine months or a year and a half for the shrimp sector, prevalent in Pedernales, if resources are allocated, to recover. And the president of the National Chamber of Aquaculture, Jose Antonio Camposano, underlines the financial support. 600 shrimp companies, two...

  “We are from Pedernales. Help us.” The phrase in an improvised poster carried by two girls, was enough to stop the march of a truck traveling on the road that connects Pedernales with El Carmen. The occupants of the truck were distributing pineapples. They...

A little more than four days after the earthquake, the biggest challenge in Pedernales is to prevent the development of an epidemic outbreak among the population. This area is where the greatest destruction occurred. The risk of gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases due to...