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Like every Wednesday of Easter, the ceremony of the Dragging of Tails was staged at the Cathedral of Quito. A ritual that, according to tradition, has Roman origins. The chronicles tell that it was born in the Cathedral of Seville and then was taken to Lima and Quito. At present,...

Revenues from crude oil exports doubled (109%). The outgoing Government had not budgeted so, but in the first two months of the year, it received $ 593 million more for the sale of oil. The recovery of oil prices, besides generating more income for the public investment of the...

Yesterday, for the second consecutive day, hearings were held against seven media for alleged prior censorship, in the Superintendency of Communication. Wednesday it was the turn for television channels Televicentro and Ecuavisa, and Daily El Universo. They are accused of failing...

President Rafael Correa announced yesterday that he “fully supports” the proposal suggested by the mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot. Thus, social groups will randomly check the ballot boxes to determine whether there are irregularities in the counts that gave the...

Comparing Ecuador with Venezuela is a complicated affair. Some may say that Ecuador can not be compared to a country where there is a social outburst and where the power is held mobsters military bands. Others affirm that what happens in Venezuela is the consequence of a state...

The elements needed to measure happiness in the world was the subject discussed in the Global Dialogue for Happiness, part of the World Summit of Governments, held in Dubai in January of this year. Freddy Ehlers, in charge of the secretariat of Good Living, was the Ecuadorian...

The Social Christian Party, a witness from a distance of the electoral struggle still maintained by PAIS and CREO, has decided to enter the court with a proposal: if the National Electoral Council does not give way to the recount of all the vote tally sheets challenged by...

Specifically, this party opposed to the government claims inconsistencies in 4,200 vote tally sheets. They contend that this number is sufficient to recount every single vote since according to the CNE, 10 million Ecuadorians gave the victory to Lenin Moreno after the ballot. The...

Several politicians active in the ranks of the PSC-Madera de Guerrero party required the National Electoral Council to open the polls, as requested by the presidential hopeful of the CREO-SUMA alliance, Guillermo Lasso. In a statement sent to the media on Wednesday, they said...

Wednesday, a group of protesters supporting the vote recount arrived at 20:15 in Santo Domingo, in the historic center of Quito. This after a speech by the leader of CREO Guillermo Lasso in the Plaza Argentina, two blocks south of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its...