Day

  The National Finance Corporation (CFN for its Spanish acronym) started the search process of those interested in purchasing the Banco del Pacifico. The decision to sell the institution was announced in May by President Rafael Correa during his Report to the Nation. This...

  The Superintendency of Communications (Supercom) “corrected a mistake” in the sixth transitory provision of the Communications Law, which was passed by the Assembly and published in the Official Gazette on June 25, 2013. The second paragraph of the sixth...

  UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, will visit this July 5th the areas affected by the earthquake that last April 16 struck several areas of the northern Ecuadorian coast, leaving 668 dead and thousands homeless. The Foreign Ministry reported that Grandi...

  Ecuador returns this week to China in search of a 13,300 million dollars loan that allows it to finance the construction of the Pacific Refinery. The Chinese recourse has become a cushion for the Ecuadorian economy in recent years, although the exact figure owed to the...

  This July 3, 2016, the Army issued a communiqué on an incident in which a group of military is involved. The communiqué reads: “The Ecuadorian Army before the images circulating on social networks in which four members of the Ecuadorian Army appear physically and...

  Land is cracking, the soil filters the wáter like a sieve. And that is terrible for rice. In several areas of this province at least 20% of the rice fields have been lost. The same will happen to the other crops, as a result of low flows of rivers and streams from where...

  A common challenge among political parties for the next elections is to capture the largest number of seats in the National Assembly. The ruling party seeks to retain the parliamentary majority. And from the opposition´s objective is, however, to detract  their presence....

  The Defense Front of the Institute of Social Security of the Armed Forces invite the public to attend a tribute to Vice Admiral Angel Sarzosa, former General Commander of the Navy, recently dismissed by President Rafael Correa. The organizers claim that this dismissal is...