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Children recover Andean crops

  Jicama, oca, mashua, amaranth, white carrot and sweet potato are foods at danger of disappearing. Joselyn Liquinchano is one of the 73 students of the Intercultural Bilingual Community Education Center (Cecib) in the province of El Oro, whose program seeks to recover these...
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Superintendence could fine town halls

  To approve or implement urban planning and urban development works that violate standards set out in the regulations. That may result in a financial penalty for a town hall. The point is considered a serious infringement. The Superintendency of Land Management, Land Use...
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Ruling party Asesemblyman believes that Attoney General should not investigate the Panama Papers

    Assemblyman Christian Viteri (AP) expressed his disagreement with Attorney General Galo Chiriboga, so he undertakes the investigation of the Panama Papers case. “As a matter of delicacy I think that anyone (who appears in these documents) should not be part of the...
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Nebot: No to the DP World monopoly

  For Mayor Jaime Nebot, the construction of the deepwater port in Posorja is the “late, but happy” end of a long story. However, he is concerned that according to what he has heard and read, “the (interior) canal is not dredged, ie the ports that exist in...
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Guillaume Long says that Latin America must tackle Cuban migration with the US

  Ecuador’s foreign minister Guillaume Long, said today in Bogota that the “structural problem” of Cuban migration must be faced by Latin America along with the United States, whose policies, he considers, encourage this migratory mobility. “We...
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Exports shrink by 25.5 percent

  Exports, one of the most important sources of foreign exchange for the country, slumped by 25.5%. According to the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE), from January to March last year, sales of Ecuador to the world totaled 4,870 million dollars, but in the same period this year,...
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Government proposes bill to force lawyers to denounce clients who own offshore companies

  An amendment to the Law on internal tax regime, introduced after the first debate on the Solidarity bill proposed to provide financial support to those affected by the earthquake, establishes the obligation for lawyers to inform the tax authorities, and under oath, deliver...
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Pareja Yannuzelli, Bravo and Merizalde investigated by the Comptroller General´s office

  Comptroller Carlos Polit informed to Ecuavisa TV that there have been irregularities in the declarations of assets of several public officials. Among them, links with companies established in tax havens. He confirmed the investigations have been carried out to former...
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Retired military file an injunction after the $ 41 million debit from the ISSFA account

  Pensioners of the Social Security Institute of the Armed Forces (ISSFA) Wednesday filed an injunction before the Civil Judicial Unit of Pichincha against Defense Minister Ricardo Patino, and the manager of the Central Bank. Retired military announced a national...
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