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  In Ecuador, production of 2010 was 95,000 tonnes and last year 137,000 tonnes, this is the equivalent to a growth of 45%, according to the Association of Pork Producers of Ecuador (ASPE). It is estimated that this production comes in a 60% from about 1,700 technologically...

  It took five years to erect two stones and now, after five months, three floors have been built. Construction works of the IESS hospital in Los Ceibos of Guayaquil advance at a breakneck pace that does not have schedules. Huge, powerful and white light bulbs look like the...

  President Rafael Correa warned on Friday he would call a referendum for the general elections of 2017, regarding his proposal to make an ‘ethical pact’ to prevent the nomination of candidates related to offshore companies. On May 24 last, during his last Report...

  Companies in the aquaculture sector have the highest sales expectations after the Business Matchmaking Forum held in Guayaquil on 1 and 2 June. They are followed by the bananas, cocoa and derivatives producers. The manager of Empacadora del Pacifico, a shrimp farm...

  Agriculture Minister Javier Ponce signed the decree declaring in an emergency maize growing areas affected by viruses and fungi in the provinces of Guayas and Los Rios: El Empalme, Balzar, Buena Fe, Palenque, Quevedo, Quinsaloma, Mocache, Valencia and Vinces. The Corn...

  Three types of inconsistencies. That what found by the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the register that will be used for the elections of February 2017. The first is the existence of Ecuadorians whose identity cards´ initial code number start with 30, when the the...

  From Pedernales (Manabí), President Rafael Correa acknowledged Friday that the two additional points of the VAT were charged to certain consumers in Manabi and Esmeraldas, the two provinces affected by the earthquake of April 16, and that are exempt from the tax hike. He...

  Lee Eun-Chul, Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea, yesterday gave a symbolic donation of $ 50,000 on behalf of the Mayor of Busan, a city in his country, to Mayor Jaime Nebot and the president of the Red Cross Teresa Farah. The money will be used for the project of...

  The Social Christian party (PSC) and the Patriotic Society party (SP), and the movements CREO, SUMA, Gente, Democracia Si, and Podemos, sent delegates to the Organization of American States (OAS), and on Thursday requested Secretary General Luis Almagro that this regional...

  The president of Ecuador Rafael Correa today called “traitors” a group of opposition political forces that yesterday asked the Organization of American States (OAS) to monitor the process of presidential and legislative elections of February 2017 . “That...