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Used telephones take care of the forest in the Ecuadorian Chocó and Esmeraldas

Ecuadornews: Old cell phones are modified so they can be recharged with solar panels. These are placed 40 meters high, in the treetops. Photo: Courtesy Humberto Castillo / Jocotoco Foundation Isabel Alarcón Editor (I) ialarcon@elcomercio.com READ ALSO Old cell phones are becoming...
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Technologists with third level degrees and master’s degrees in Ecuador

Ecuadornews: Ray Guerra, 27, graduated as a Marketing Technologist after three years of studies and wanted to do a degree in the same career at the University of Guayaquil. “I did all the paperwork for the homologation, I thought I would go to a fifth or sixth semester, but...
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Petroecuador awarded the import of 2.7 million barrels of diesel to Trafigura

Ecuadornews: Petroecuador awarded the company Trafigura the import 2’750,000 barrels + 4% of premium diesel, reported Monday May 13, 2019 the state oil company, through a statement. The proposals were received and evaluated on Thursday, May 9, 2019. This import will supply...
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Biess will stop financing homes at 100%

Ecuadornews: Since April 24 this year, the Banco del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (Biess) stopped financing 100% of the cost of social housing, now the maximum amount it will cover will be 85%. The resolution came into effect after the state bank reformed its credit...
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Government suppresses Senplades and creates Technical Secretariat Plans Ecuador

Ecuadornews: President Lenin Moreno signed Executive Decree 732 with which he suppresses the National Secretariat of Planning and Development (Senplades) and creates the Technical Planning Secretariat “Plan Ecuador”, attached to the Presidency of the Republic. This...
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Finance is ready to re-profile part of its debt in bonds

Ecuadornews: Ecuador will return in the coming months to international markets. But this time it will not be to get more money, but to re-profiling part of its bulky debt that has accumulated for the issuance of sovereign bonds in the last six years. The Ministry of Economy and...
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Espinosa, a tris to be saved

Ecuadornews: The political trial against former Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa in the National Assembly is staggering. Yesterday, the correístas and the majority of Morenoites of the Oversight Committee came together again, recovered the overwhelming majority that had...
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Demand for personnel grew in four sectors of the labor market

Ecuadornews: Although in 2019 adequate or full employment fell 3.2% nationwide, four of the 15 labor market sectors report an increase in hiring. This is the case of oil and mining, financial services, mail and communications, and education and social services, which incorporated...
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Near Glas are in the “Green Rice” case

Ecuadornews: The Office of the Prosecutor follows the investigation of alleged illegal contributions to campaigns of 2013 and 2014. The presidential adviser Santiago Cuesta gave more information. The first time he appeared was in the trial that sentenced him for the Odebrecht...
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$ 25 million will cost the prison emergency

Ecuadornews: Overcrowding reaches 41% in the social rehabilitation centers of the country. In Latacunga there is no water and violence inside is increasing. Carmen (protected name) is worried. His son Miguel has been working for a year at the Regional Center for Social...
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