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The Association of Cocoa Exporters (Anecacao) will celebrate three decades of institutional life this year and will do it amid uncertainty over low international prices and the promise of better days, fueled by the growing demand for chocolate in Asian countries. The stock market...

  The voices that warned that the IESS would have financing problems in the future, and this is becoming a reality, began to be heard a decade ago. But with much more force in 2010, after the promulgation of a reformatory law, that increased, without any funding, the health...

The economy of the country is in their hands, international sales in three sectors total more than 5.041 billion dollars, according to the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym). This is not a negligible figure concerning the International Women’s Day, which...

Representatives of the banana export sector and the Turkish company Yilport, which manages the Puerto Bolívar terminal (El Oro), did not agree on the new value of the cargo load rate per banana box, from the port to the ship. According to the exporters, Yilport had announced that...

According to a report by the Ecuadorian Media Observatory (OME), a Fundamedios project, candidates of the PAIS (AP) party and other political movements that support them had more exposure in the public media than the hopefuls of the other political groups last January. Six State...

In general, polls two weeks before the elections marked a preference for Lasso, lower than the result he obtained, and a higher preference for Moncayo, superior than what he obtained, according to the document. “It suggests in a certain way that probably in those last 10,...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa warned that if the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso wins the presidential election, he fears that a political persecution will be initiated against him. He also said he will defend himself without leaving the country. In an interview with...

  Balance-of-payments safeguards meet today (March 5, 2017) two years in the midst of importers’ expectations for the final process of tax breaks. The mechanism was supposed to end in June 2016. However, following the earthquake occurred on April 16, 2016, the government...

Nine Ecuadorian media that make up the Association of Newspaper Editors presented an exhortation, through a statement, to the presidential hopefuls for the second round. “We ask candidates Lenin Moreno and Guillermo Lasso to commit themselves now to repeal or reform the...

Corruption took the first round. And it promises to repeat it in the second, fueled by the public concern that, according to the polls, puts the issue at the top of the list of priorities, only behind unemployment. Citizen interest in corruption has been driven by a wave of...