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The commercial relationship with the new United States Government worries the national business sector for the continuity of tariff preferences that country unilaterally grants to Ecuadorian products and that will expire on December 31. Juan Carlos Cassinelli, Minister of Foreign...

“Seeing is believing” is a premise that many people apply strictly, but they forget when using WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter … A few days after the elections, voters suffer an infoxicación that could influence in a negative way in their decision. Hundreds of...

The Ecuadorian shrimp could return to the Brazilian market after 18 years, thanks to a shared management among the undersecretary of aquaculture, the National Fisheries Institute (INP) and representatives of the private shrimp sector. The Brazilian market has been closed for the...

The protests staged last Saturday by supporters of the Alianza PAIS (PA) party outside the central plant of Ediasa, in Portoviejo, were cataloged by an editorial group as a “violent way of restricting freedom of the press,” according to a note from its editor...

The candidate of the opposition Guillermo Lasso has expressly referred to the candidate of the government´s party Lenin Moreno as “a puppet,” and has said “that he uses the whole apparatus of the State” to attack him, but that “he has no the...

  During his weekly address No. 516, broadcast from Salitre (Guayas), President Rafael Correa raged against Lilian Tintori for trying to enter Ecuador to support Guillermo Lasso’s campaign. She is the wife of Leopoldo López, an imprisoned leader of the Venezuelan...

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has ordered to allocate 444,806 dollars to build a Presidential museum in the Carondelet Palace. The idea is to take a tour of the official history in Ecuador and remember all those who held office from Carondelet. In detail, Correa will...

A plane of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) took aid to Peru, to be distributed among the victims of the landslides and floods that are recorded in the neighboring country. The same plane expected to bring this evening a group of Ecuadorians living in or passing through Peru and...

  One of the major expenses that must be assumed by the Treasury every year is the subsidies. For the 2016 Budget – which is the same for this year until the new President is inaugurated, in May – USD 3 193 million will be needed for 16 subsidies. The amount...

President Rafael Correa has blocked the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso on Twitter. Lasso himself informed the fact through his WhatsApp network. “He’s desperate,” Lasso said.   In the last hours, Lasso had replied to Correa, via Twitter, about the...