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The State Attorney General’s Office (PGE) ratified the embargo on the assets of the former Vice President of the Republic, Jorge Glas , after the request of the wife of the former second president to lift the prohibition on disposing of assets. The contested properties are...

The companies Marathon Petroleum Supply LLC and the state-owned company Petroperú, both refiners, presented EP Petroecuador with the best offers and prizes for the last Ecuadorian crude sale contest, EP Petroecuador announced in an official statement. In this way, the Ecuadorian...

More gold has been extracted from the Fruta del Norte mine so far this year. Lundin Gold extracted 121,665 ounces of gold from that mine during the first quarter of 2022. Of that, 78,601 ounces came out as concentrate and 43,064 ounces as doré. In the first three months of 2021,...

Foreign investors have a better perspective on Ecuador as a mining destination. According to the Fraser survey that qualifies 84 mining jurisdictions (states and countries) worldwide, in 2021, Ecuador’s score grew 14.94 points compared to 2020, as one of the most attractive...

A small group of 200 farmers make a specialty coffee supported by the recent appellation of origin from the province of Loja , in southern Ecuador, which seeks to place the Andean country on the map of gourmet coffees and bid for its own niche in this competitive region....

The Minister of Agriculture, Pedro Álava and seven representatives of the country’s banana sector signed an act last Wednesday, April 13, 2022, listing 8 reforms that they commit to execute for the well-being of the industry. Although the agreement includes some requests...

For the fourth consecutive day, banana producers have closed roads in the province of El Oro, one of the main producers of the fruit along with Guayas and Los Ríos. The voices of protest and claim for the crisis that the sector is going through due to the fruit that has stopped...

The banana industry continues adding losses, due to the commercial complications that have been generated as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, both countries, before the war, absorbed up to 25% of the exported fruit. According to an update of figures from the...

The Government opened this Wednesday, April 13, 2022, the valve of well A5 -on the platform of the Ishpingo field- and from which a production of 3,600 barrels of oil per day is expected. The opening of this first well was in charge of the President of the Republic, Guillermo...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock made official the arrival of banana plants of the Cavendish somaclonal variety, called Formosana GCTCV-218 , a species that is tolerant to Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (Foc R4T), a fungus that has not yet been detected in Ecuador. This...