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Fernando Alarcon, Legal Director of the Noboa Corporation qualified as a “new arbitrariness” the decision ordered by the Labor Inspector of Babahoyo against the Compañia Agricola Clementina for unpaid values to workers. Alarcon explains that the government is holding...

Ecuador received 1,931 million dollars in remittances from abroad between January and September 2016. The amount follows the trend of the previous ten years, the El Ciudadano website reported on December 21. 91% of remittances were sent by Ecuadorians living in the United States,...

There are days when the ton of cocoa loses 120 dollars in the international market of commodities and others, 46 dollars, like Tuesday. The swing in the stock markets of New York (USA) and London (England), which mark the prices of other countries, including Ecuador, has an...

A group of 169 Waoran women associated with a craft project using chambira as a raw material. They have more than a decade developing their work with this fiber they color with vegetal products of the eastern jungle. They undertook the project with the idea of generating work in...

Five of sixteen mining projects are “trouble spots” with the aboriginal communities and the National Government. Sixteen mining projects and reserves are included in the National Development Plan for the Mining Sector; Of them, five are considered as a priority to...

The NGO Acción Ecológica yesterday demanded the government to “prove” the statements of the Interior Ministry, which assured that they allegedly committed “violent acts” after “alerting” about the environmental impacts of mining projects...

The Contentious Tax Court accepted the appeal of the legal secretary of the Presidency, Alexis Mera. Thus, the Court rejected the writ of habeas corpus filed by the defense of Cléver Jiménez and Fernando Villavicencio. Their defense lawyer, Julio César Sarango, confirmed it...

Candidates for Assembly members Marcela Aguinaga (AP) and Vicente Taiano (PSC-MG) accused each other of alleged acts of land speculation, regarding the position they maintain on the bill that seeks to regulate capital gains. Aguinaga, current Vice-President of the Assembly,...

Marcelo Odebrecht. The firm that bears his surname, one of the world’s largest construction companies, paid $ 33.5 million in kickbacks in Ecuador, he said yesterday during his admission of guilt to the US Attorney’s Office where he is being prosecuted. According to...