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20,000 signatures for non-extradition of the young Ecuadorian Diego Puma

Ecuadornews:     The Care2 Petitions organization, created to bring together activists from around the world and file lawsuits online, already has 20,144 signatures out of the 25,000 that it requires to file a petition to stop the deportation process of 19-year-old...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Diving attracts 15% of tourists arriving in the Galapagos

Ecuadornews:     The tourist market in the Galapagos Islands becomes attractive for those who operate the diving activity. Although this generates the need to implement management tools that prevent the deterioration of the 68 sites of the Marine Reserve intended for...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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The Venezuelan invasion

Ecuadornews:     In 2006, the number of Venezuelans entering Ecuador did not reach 12,000. A decade later, pushed by the crisis in their country, 13,700 citizens on average arrive, per month. The statistics of the entry of 68,839 Venezuelans in the first five months of...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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One in three cases that goes to Neuroscience is due to drugs

Ecuadornews:     The Institute of Neuroscience (INC in spanish) receives from three to five children with withdrawal symptoms (symptoms due to lack of drugs), per day. And of every three patients who arrive at the center one is for drugs. Only in the emergency area, the...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Pablo Celi orders to open new exams works of Odebrecht

Ecuadornews:     On June 14, 2017, and by means of an official memorandum, Deputy Comptroller Pablo Celi ordered the Comptroller’s Office of Audit and Environment to carry out new special engineering examinations in four infrastructure works involving the...
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The president gives clues with his first pardon

Ecuadornews:     They have hope. The indigenous leadership sees as a positive sign the pardon granted by the President of the Republic, Lenin Moreno, to Patricio Meza. He was serving a six-month sentence for the offense of attack and resistance, in Pastaza. His name was...
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Banking: electronic money must be injected confidence

Ecuadornews:     In the country, the use of electronic money reaches $9.6 million dollars (balance that remains in the accounts), down below of what the debit cards move per month ($100 million). It is a system that, despite having more than three years of validity,...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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CREO claims to have several evidence against Jorge Glas

Ecuadornews:     It is the second try. The assembly block of the CREO-SUMA alliance began collecting signatures to politically challenge Vice President Jorge Glas. The road is not easy. For starters, at least the signatures of 46 legislators supporting the impeachment...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Entrepreneurs call for ‘job security’

Ecuadornews:     Quito – Freedom to contract fixed-term and hourly labor, respecting labor guarantees and including training processes for those who have lost a job are the elements of “labor safety”, proposed yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce of...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Councilors ask Quito mayor to explain metro contract with Odebrecht

Ecuadornews:     Today, a group of councilors asked the mayor of Quito, Mauricio Rodas, for an explanation of the contract with the Acciona-Odebrecht consortium for the second phase of the metro, whose offices were raided Wednesday in the investigation of bribes of the...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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