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  Ecuadorean Santiago Quintero, who defines himself as a “living miracle,” plans to be the first mountaineer in the world to crown the “unpredictable” K2 with leg prostheses and without supplemental oxygen. Quintero, 41, has no limits despite his...

  Brazil’s new government today rejected the views expressed by the Unasur and the Alba, and those from Government officials of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua in relation to the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff. In separate statements from the...

  Foreign Minister of Spain Jose Maria Garcia-Margallo said that the Iberian government will support the elimination of visas rquired by the European Union (EU) for Ecuadorians. “Spain managed, not without difficulty, the exemption of visas for Colombians and Peruvians...

  Employers say they no longer know where to get money to pay so many taxes. And they assure that if the 3% contribtution on profits of 2015, stated in one of the points of the Solidarity bill, to assist the affected areas by the earthquake, is approved it will be worse....

  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights concluded that Ecuador fulfilled all measures imposed in a judgment issued five years ago by the arbitrary expropriation of a plot in Quito, the court announced Friday. The Court closed and terminated the Salvador Chiriboga case...

President Rafael Correa has reported that the government will continue broadcasting weekly addresses, and will not eliminate the Secretariat of Good Living, after the opposition did not respond to his challenge that if they voted for higher taxes he would suspend both.  ...

    A study conducted by the Techo (Roof) organization in four districts of the provinces of Manabi and Esmeraldas, the most affected by the earthquake occurred in Ecuador, reveals that 2,269 families have completely lost their homes. The data comes from information raised...

  Muisne, Pedernales and Manta did not have access to water before the earthquake of April 16, mainly due to the quality and supply. In the first county, the alternatives were deep wells or rainwater collection. For example, in the San Jose de Chamanga parish, water tankers...

  One month after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the northern coast of Ecuador, according to the testimony of a dozen of the 113 survivors of the tragedy, they were hours and even days, agonizing under tons of rubble. Some drank their own urine to hydrate, they raved...