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  Jorge, a medical student at a university in northern Guayaquil, drinks alcohol, smokes cigarettes and marijuana in family and social gatherings. he consumes this outside the center of studies, with the exception of cigarettes, which is his “vice,” says the 20...

  Car sales are going through the worst moment of the past decade. During the first five months of this year 24,078 imported cars and of domestic manufacturing, ie, a 41% less than in the same period of 2015, according to data from the Chamber of the Automotive Industry of...

  In the San Sebastian de Loja park, this Monday afternoon animal activists and citizens will gather at 15:00 to stage a march in defense of stray dogs after the controversial statements of Mayor Jose Bolivar Castillo, who said on Friday that actions against stray dogs roaming...

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warns about the harm to human rights across the continent if the countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) do not improve their funding, during the general assembly of the OAS held today in the Dominican...

  President Rafael Correa has announced that the school feeding program, which was being implemented by the National Storage Unit, attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, will be managed by the private sector, after a tender to be convened later this month. “The...

  Challenging a decision of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, navy captain and Joint Chief of Staff Lenin Sanchez Mino, managed to ascend to Admiral, by a decision of Defense Minister Ricardo Patino and President Rafael Correa.   On May 31 Executive Order 1062 was...

Ecuador will analyze and respond in the coming days the request from Sweden to interrogate WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, reported Friday Foreign Minister Guillaume Long. The Australian activist is being held at the diplomatic mission...

  Mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot has condemned the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which has become the deadliest attack in the United States since the 11S. “My total condemnation of the brutal and hatred terrorist crime committed in Orlando...

  Ecuador’s ambassador in Panama and owner of Radio America Galo Enriquez Enriquez, established the Merivi Corp. company, based in the British Virgin Islands on November 27, 2008. Since that day he was the owner of the offshore company until April 7, 2015, when he...

  Sunday the Ecuadorean national soccer team beat Haiti Ecuador 4-0 and passed to the quarterfinals of the Copa America, held in the United States, advancing positions to that instance of the continental tournament for the first time since 1997 in Bolivia. The goals were...