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The collapse of the Baltimore bridge could congest other ports in the United States to which exports from Ecuador also arrive. The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, has caused concern in the Ecuadorian export sector due to the...

The Attorney General’s Office says it has no indication that Henry Kronfle participated in the crime for which Pablo Muentes is being investigated, within the Purge case. The State Attorney General’s Office ruled out opening a specific investigation into the social...

On the other hand, foreign direct investment registered the lowest amount in 2023, at least since 2016, with an amount of USD 372 million, according to the Central Bank. In 2023, Ecuador recorded USD 5,448 million in remittances received, the highest amount achieved in...

According to figures from the Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), there are 2,832,153 Ecuadorians who are adequately employed or according to figures from February 2024. This is also corroborated by the National Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment Survey...

People who purchase goods and services – taxed with value added tax (VAT) – will pay 15% for this tax from April 1, 2024. This means three percentage points more, in relation to the percentage in force until March 31, 2024. That is, 12%. The VAT increase is contained i...

Ecuador has eighty days of internal armed conflict. The Government of Daniel Noboa declared the existence of an internal confrontation against 22 criminal gangs, which were classified as terrorist groups. With this declaration, the uniformed men were sent to the streets to...

A former cellmate of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, named Marcelo Lasso Saavedra, who has described himself as his “trusted man,” has testified during his anticipated testimony at the hearing for the Metastasis Case, which he witnessed, in two occasions,...

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador endorsed this Tuesday the 30-day extension ordered by the Government of President Daniel Noboa to the state of exception that it decreed on January 8 to put an end to a spiral of violence on a national scale linked to organized crime gangs. ,...

The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador reported, in its official channels, that from Mexico the rescue of 27 Ecuadorians was confirmed inside a home located in Barrio Bahías, town of La Ventosa de Salina Cruz, State of Oaxaca. The compatriots, 13 men, 11 women and a family unit of...

The Government of Ecuador expressed this Sunday its condemnation of the shooting of the mayor of the coastal city of San Vicente, Brigitte García, and offered to do everything possible to find those responsible for this crime. “We are working with the State Attorney...