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Bolivian Carmiña Santamaria, along with a team of experts in new technologies -among them Ecuadorian Carlos Villavicencio- created Kwema, a bracelet that activates an alarm system when the user is in trouble. Globally, one in three women has experienced physical or sexual...

Tuna fishers who work in the eastern Pacific will have to be more austere with the use of the resources of this part of the ocean, and for this, they shall be subject to new rules. Now they must not only respect the 62 days of closure per year but in 2017 they will be obliged to...

What has been the variation of the international price of cocoa? The stock market price of cocoa a year ago was at levels of $ 3,000 per ton; nowadays it is between $ 1,900 and $ 2,000 per ton, there is a 35% drop. The Ivory Coast represents 1,600,000 tons per year, and that...

He is a harsh critic of the current government. For this legal expert from Guayaquil, reforming the structure of the state will be an obligation of the next government. – Is it possible to convene a Constituent Assembly as announced by the opposition? – It is the only...

Ecuador’s presidential candidate, Abdalá Bucaram Pulley, officially denounced the alleged acts of intimidation in the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office, of which he and his family have been victims for days. “State resources are being used … to intimidate my...

Ecuador is negotiating an agreement with the Brazilian company Odebrecht to clarify the alleged millionaire bribes paid by the construction giant to Ecuadorian officials, according to statements of Attorney General Galo Chiriboga issued Monday, March 6, 2017. “If there is...

  The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Monday afternoon the official results of the elections of the president and vice-president of the Republic last February 19, which ratify the second round of voting between the finalist candidates: Lenin Moreno (AP) and...

  The export of teak to India, the main market for Ecuador that receives 98% of the shipments, has remained semi-paralyzed since last October due to phytosanitary matters, according to the Ecuadorian Association of Producers of Teak and Tropical Timber (Asoteca).   Xavier...

The opposition presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso said Monday that, if he won the elections of April 2 in Ecuador, he would push for a Constituent Assembly to “dismantle” the control bodies created under the government of Rafael Correa. The Constituent Assembly...

The Anti-Corruption Commission passed from questioner and accuser to defendant. The plaintiff? Comptroller General Carlos Polit. The official asks for a compensation of 1.4 million dollars to the members of the citizen body. According to Pólit’s lawsuit, the claim arises...