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According to the Direction of the Galapagos National Park (DPNG), three plants, four species of turtles and eight mammal become extinct. Tourism is one of the causes. In the 1970s, a wave of tourism began to grow in the archipelago. Only last year there were 204 395 visits, 13%...

The organic Ombudsman’s draft law proposed by Ramiro Rivadeneira, current Ombudsman, was yesterday socialized in Guayaquil, in the Auditorium of the National Finance Corporation (CFN). Rivadeneira described as necessary the law because current legislation dates from 1997,...

Since last week, in schools and High schools, the second stanza of the provincial anthem was replaced by the fourth. This reform was done by order of the Ministry of Education and has caused different reactions. Augusto Espinosa, head of the Ministry of state, said on his Twitter...

European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said today in Prague the need to intensify the brokering efforts to find a solution to the gas dispute between Moscow and Kiev, although he showed himself “optimistic” about the possibility of an early agreement....

The Victoria’s Secret supermodel, the South African Candice Swanepoel, has been considered the hottest celebrity according to the online vote of Maxim’s magazine. This beauty of 25 years old, was positioned ahead of stars like Scarlett Johansson, Katty Perry and...

The Government of Nicaragua urged yesterday to strengthen diplomatic and cooperative relations with Ecuador. This was reflected during a ceremony in which the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos received the credentials of the new Ambassador of Ecuador in Nicaragua, Aminta...

The report on the number of persons who will be admitted to the designation contest of the Citizen Selection Committee which will elect two members of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its acronym in spanish), must be today approved by the Council of Citizen Participation...

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño is currently visiting Haiti with the purpose of review jointly with the country’s president, Michel Martelly, bilateral relations and the contributions of Ecuador to the process of Haitian reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake. Within the...

Former Assemblyman Galo Lara, sentenced to prison for icomplicidad in a triple murder in 2011, at the time has the status of `refugee in porcess´ in Panama, according by his lawyer José Nelson Brandao. Brandao said he had filed a refugee claim at the National Office for the...

On Monday the Mexican Manuel Uribe Garza, considered one of the most obese people in the world, died at the University Hospital of Monterrey at age 48 from heart failure, according to local media reports. Uribe who in 2006 weighed 560 kilos, appealed on television, making its...