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Icons become iron in the hands of Dario Suarez

Ecuadornews:     “Legends of Hierro” is the exhibition of the Guayaquil artist Darío Suárez (1976) that will be displayed from August 22 to September 11 at Galeria Mirador, at Universidad Catolica de Guayaquil.     Suarez is a graphic designer and...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Richard Proaño: ‘I was dismissed for ruling against Ricardo Rivera.’

Ecuadornews:     Richard Proaño was a judge of the Childhood and Adolescence of the Guayas Province and says that they wanted to bribe him to rule in favor of Ricardo Rivera, uncle of vice president Jorge Glas, in a trial for alimony in 2011. Q: When the case came to...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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31 finalists in the Green Latin Awards

Ecuadornews:     Thirty-one environmental projects in 10 categories are the finalists of the fourth edition of the Latin American Green Awards that tomorrow, in the evening, will announce the winners. The event was presented yesterday in Hilton Colon Guayaquil Hotel...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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The Skretting firm invests $ 65 million in Duran factory

Ecuadornews:     The Norwegian company Skretting, which started operations in the country in 2013, has begun the construction of a new shrimp feed production plant. The factory located in Durán had an investment of $ 65 million. General manager of Skretting Ecuador...
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The Legislature approves the term ‘labor harassment’ in two laws

Ecuadornews:     Tuesday, August 22, 2017, the plenary session of the Legislature passed the reform bill to the Public Service Organic Law (Losep) and the Labor Code to prevent bullying in the workplace with 133 votes in favor. The standard introduces the definition of...
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Bosé joins the initiative protection of the hammerhead shark in Galapagos

Ecuadornews:     Spanish singer Miguel Bosé joined a campaign that seeks to protect the hammerhead shark and the fauna of the Darwin and Wolf Marine Sanctuary (north of the Galapagos Islands) from illegal fishing. “We can not allow fishing fleets to invade marine...
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Chinese fishing fleet instills fear in Ecuador

Ecuadornews:     Between 200 and 300 Chinese vessels are currently fishing near the Exclusive Economic Zone in southern Galapagos, that would mean that 10% of that fleet is extracting resources near Ecuador.   Franklin Ormaza, a research professor at Espol and a...
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24 legislators will inspect the Esmeraldas refinery

Ecuadornews:     A group of 24 legislators – led by former Minister of Electricity and current legislator of the Alianza PAIS (AP) party, Esteban Albornoz, – will visit the Esmeraldas refinery today to verify the alleged damages warned by president Lenin...
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The ‘magic realism’ of the economy

Ecuadornews:     A minefield from which a soldier manages to escape. The latest projections of the Central Bank (August 17th) on the Ecuadorian economy look optimistically over the next four years, in opposition to what private players predict, who claim that the agency...
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Mariano Zambrano says that contracts are not on the fringes of the law

Ecuadornews:     Legal documents attest to two state contracts with companies linked to the governor of Manabí Mariano Nicanor Zambrano Segovia, and his son, who is a legislator and bears the same name. This Journal had access to two of them, signed by the...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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