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About 300,000 Ecuadorians would receive e-money

  The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) has identified 300,000 potential beneficiaries of the return of one point of the value added tax (VAT) in electronic money, according to its director, Leonardo Orlando. These are people who have made purchases with credit or debit cards....
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The ‘brexit’ also affects the growth of the euro zone

  The uncertainty caused by the British decision to leave the European Union will result in a slowdown of the economic growth in the euro zone to 1.4% in 2017 from 1.6% this year, and risks are increasing, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For 2018, a growth of...
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Lenin Moreno before the betrayal syndrome

Lenin Moreno wants to be president. Now he wants it and he is determined. That is a point in favor of a candidacy that has another advantage within the ruling coalition: to be the electoral figure that raises best expectations, according to the polls. Moreno was vice president...
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Alianza PAIS analyzes legislative action against Superintendent Carlos Ochoa

  The Justice Commission of the Assembly “will solve this week the actions taken” against Superintendent of Communication (Supercom) Carlos Ochoa, for having “led to a settlement” in the sixth transitory provision of the Communications Law, when...
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Deportation of Cubans concern the Human Rights Watch organization

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed “deep concern” over the deportations of Cubans executed by Ecuador over the weekend, before “the complaints received about violations of due process.” Official figures speak of 151...
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Assembly members have traveled to 41 countries since May 2013

  Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Iran and Japan are some of the destinations of the trips abroad made by the members of the Assembly, between May 2013 and May 2016. This information is available on the website of the agency, in the Law of Transparency tab. Most trips were made by...
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Correa acts like a medieval monarch with his auctions

  Rafael Correa ratified two things about himself during the weekly address No. 483, which took place in Bahia de Caraquez. One, which is ideologically closer to a medieval monarch of a forgotten island than that of a contemporary ruler and, two, that he has no shame when he...
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5.9 and 6.2 magnitude earthquakes shake Ecuador again

  The 6.2 and 5.9 magnitude earthquakes occurred just after 21H00 (01H00 GMT) in the town of Muisne in the province of Esmeraldas (northwest of the country and on the border with Colombia), at a depth of 10.1 and 8, 7 km, reported the Geophysical Institute (IG). After...
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