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  A simultaneous operation in five provinces made in the early hours of Wednesday, led to the arrest of eleven people who would be related to an alleged network dedicated to the recruitment and trafficking of irregular migrants from Haiti and Cuba. A total of 16 police teams...

  Quito, at the moment, does not have a political leadership that is a national reference and can influence on the upcoming general elections of 2017. Santiago Guarderas, of the Social Christian Party, Paco Moncayo, of the National Agreement for Change, former Assembly...

  The presence of the Military High Command in the Assembly to present its technical reports on reforms to the ISSFA became a sensitive issue. The case was treated again in the last hours: the Legislative Commission on the Rights of the Workers set a deadline of 12 days to...

  A less dynamic economy in 2015 was translated into lower profits for the business sector. There were companies that had revenues, but far less than in 2014. In 2015, a total of 28,252 companies registered profits by USD 5,212 million, a 22% less than the previous year,...

  Military training without the permission of the competent authority is prohibited by the Constitution and laws of Ecuador. Article 350 of the Organic Integral Criminal Code (COIP for its Spanish acronym), which establishes sanctions for illegal military training, puts it...

  It is a transcript of previous audits and declarations. This was stated by the opposition on the report of the Dhruv helicopters. In 2008, the Air Force bought seven aircrafts, four of them suffered accidents, between 2009 and 2015, leaving three dead and several wounded....

  In the last issue of the Vistazo magazine tabout the 500 major companies in Ecuador figures show that the behavior of businesses during 2015, caused a major slowdown of over 10% in revenues. A simple example helps to understand the impact: in 2014 the 500 largest companies...

Fourteen generals of the Police rejected yesterday in a statement an attempt to “undermine the reputation of the institution” by the relatives of the defendants for allegedly being part of a network that irregularly sold more than 1,300 promotions. In the statement,...

  Fundamedios alleged that the Regulatory Agency of Telecommunications (Arcotel) did not allow citizen observation during in the bid for radio and television frequencies. The organization filed a protective action for the alleged violation of the right to observe and...

  Health Minister Margarita Guevara issued a statement through her Twitter account, where she confirms having asked the Attorney General´s Office to investigate her own niece, who allegedly offered jobs in exchange for sums of money at the Maternity Hospital Luz Elena...