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Ecuadornews:   Authorities ruled out on Thursday, June 28, 2018, possible effects on giant turtle colonies and a population of land iguanas on Isabela Island, in the Galápagos archipelago, following the eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano. This was reported by the Galapagos...

Ecuadornews:   The Minister of the Environment, Tarscio Granizo together with the holders of the Norwegian Climate and Environment State portfolios and the Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Ola Elvestuen and Stefan Schmitz, respectively signed an agreement for...

Ecuadornews:   The National Assembly, with 103 affirmative votes, approved the lifting of the reservation of all documents related to the case of the murder of the former general Jorge Gabela and the purchase of the DHRUV helicopters. The Legislative also urged the...

Ecuadornews:   The Plenary Session of the Judiciary Council replaced eight of the 23 provincial prosecutors it had appointed last Friday. In this group is Guillermo Moreno, brother of the President of the Republic, Lenin Moreno, who was in charge of the Napo...

Ecuadornews:   Among the topics analyzed in debates on the Law of Productive Development are the attraction of investments, incentives, tax exemption, stability and fiscal balance. While the Executive analyzes the Law of Productive Development before publishing it in the...

Ecuadornews:   Four people were arrested during an intervention of the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office, during this June 28. One of the apprehended is a councilman of the capital city, who was also captured by the police to investigate his alleged participation in the...

Ecuadornews:   The vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, asked Ecuador to take concrete actions aimed at isolating the Venezuelan government, a measure to which the Ecuadorian president, Lenin Moreno, did not refer and merely reiterated that the only solution to...

Ecuadornews:   A group of US Senate Democrats urged the vice president of that nation, Mike Pence, to “press” the government of Ecuador, commanded by President Lenin Moreno, on the asylum granted to the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, at the Embassy Ecuador...

Ecuadornews:   The sustained commitment of US President Donald Trump to stop Iran’s oil exports could help boost oil prices above $ 90 a barrel. “We are in a very attractive oil price environment and our opinion is that oil will reach $ 90 by the end of the...

Ecuadornews:   Organizations demand respect for the 2014 agreement and that Colombia report its actions to eradicate illegal crops and the limits to do so. Colombia committed to the United States to halve its coca plantations until 2023. This goal is included in the...