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Ecuadortimes: Four universities in Ecuador are part of the ranking for 2020 of the 1,000 best universities in the world. This was reported Wednesday in the sixteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings. Those Ecuadorian universities are: San Francisco de Quito, in...

Ecuadortimes: With a 1:52-minute video, Michael J. Fitzpatrick announced that this week he began his work as U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador. “My wife and I are very excited to be in Quito,” he said in the audiovisual, which summarizes his activities and more than 30 years...

Ecuadortimes: While a hundred artists, managers and community producers arrived at the march called by the Network of Scenic Spaces (RED), the Núcleo de Pichincha, directed by Luis García, called an assembly at the same time.  Artists from at least 15 self-organized...

Ecuadortimes: Three months after the National Court of Justice eliminated the accumulation of drug penalties, 352 prisoners have been able to reduce their sentences. 71 are now free and 281 are still in prison, because they are still not serving the sentences they received. How...

Ecuadortimes: More than 100 representatives of the public and private sector of the field of telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) met on June 19, 2019, to form the “Working Tables for the construction of the National Strategy for...

Ecuadortimes: Today, Thursday, June 20, marks World Refugee Day and the National Government ratifies its efforts to respond to new requests for shelter, as well as to provide humanitarian and legal support to those in need. Around 68,000 people from more than 70 countries have...

Ecuadortimes: Manta, in the province of Manabí, will receive tomorrow, June 20, the major referents of what is called responsible fishing, to address an issue flag of Ecuador: the sustainability of the industry, which generates to Ecuador more than 1,000 million annual exports....

Ecuadortimes: A paralyzed economy. The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) updated the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth figure and reduced it from 1.4% to 0.2%. With the correction, the ECB is aligned with the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank...

Ecuadortimes: The possibility that the country will continue to gain space in the European market through an agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has been truncated, after the Constitutional Court of Ecuador objected to what both parties have negotiated on...

Ecuadortimes: Pablo Campana Sáenz left the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries. He does so for strictly personal reasons, as he remarked in his resignation. The announcement was made by means of a letter addressed to the president. Gracias Ecuador...