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Ecuadornews: The Undersecretariat of Land and Agrarian Reform of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture, and Fisheries (Magap) studied the surface of the seven communes of that ethnic group, from 2015. The analysis sought to verify if the lands (10 000 hectares) that...

Ecuadornews: An infrastructure of the dimensions of the Financial Platform not only changes the image of the sector, but also the mobility. The Metro is the alternative to reduce the impact, but that will not happen, at least in the next two years, when its opening is scheduled....

Ecuadornews: Between 2007 and 2016 Ecuador invested 561 million in the protection of 52 natural areas to improve the management of protected areas, fight deforestation and establish an integral waste operation, according to the Ministry of the Environment. The percentage of...

Ecuadornews: Bananas, shrimp or tuna are not the only products shipped that generate profits in Ecuador, nor everything that comes from the United States or Europe. The annual report of the Central Bank of Ecuador contains a breakdown of the 10 main products the country imports...

Ecuadornews: The mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot plans to install 6,000 free and wireless Internet points throughout the city. Today that figure reaches 4,114 points. According to Nebot, Guayaquil was already “a digital city” with 2,500 points. But that “goal...

Ecuadornews: The leader of the Unity, Change and Progress movement, activist Fernando Balda, submitted today a clarification appeal with regard to Resolution PLE-CNE-11-8-5- 2017, issued by the plenary of that body last Monday. With this resolution, the CNE (National Electoral...

Ecuadornews: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has “everything ready” to reduce the two percentage points of the value added tax (VAT), according to Guillermo Belmonte, deputy director of the tax agency.   The Solidarity Law, enacted on June 1st, 2016, established a...

Ecuadornews:   President Correa’s warning of “sending ambassadors home” (whom he branded as “fourth-class ambassadors”) for publicly criticizing the decision of the Ecuadorian government to suspend Bilateral Investment Treaties is, in the opinion of...

Ecuadornews: The indigenous movements allied to the ruling party will give Lenin Moreno a ‘spiritual sacred scepter’ as a symbolic Presidential inauguration act. The National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous and Afro-American Organizations (Fenocin), along with...

Ecuadornews: During his last weekly address, broadcast from the Manabi province, as a symbolic remembrance act of the birth of the Ecuadorian constitution of 2008 in Ciudad Alfaro, something that would later constitute the bases of the “citizen revolution” carried out...