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The United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO,) held today in Rome its 33rd World Food Day, through commemorative events which will run until Sunday and will have as its slogan “Healthy people depends on a healthy food System.” For five days, there...

Gabriela Rivadeneira, president of the National Assembly, said that her phrase: “poor people eat bread and rich people eat shit,” was interpreted out of context by people and media and reiterated that it was not her intention to make specific accusations to any...

With the presentation of the initial arguments of the parties began yesterday in New York, the  trial for fraud and extortion against a lawyer and advisors of the plaintiffs of Chevron in Ecuador for environmental damages. The team of lawyers from Chevron and of the accused...

The American channel KSLA reported that a  technical failure at the limit of public aid cards to families of low income caused that last weekend  a crowd emptied two  Wal-Mart supermarkets in Louisiana, (South of USA), once they realised they could buy food without quota limits....

An operation that was carried out between last Friday and Saturday in Puerto Grande, northeast of the San Cristobal Island, in Galapagos, found a shipment of 18 sacks with 32.477 of sea cucumbers, which were dried and salty. The Ministry of the environment reported that the...

It didn’t matter that Ecuador lost  2-1 against Chile, in the last date of the preliminary rounds, the fans celebrated the classification of the tricolour team for the third time  to the World Cup. The maximum celebration occurred after the minute 65  when Felipe Caicedo...

The Nobel committee granted  its last award to the American Economists Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller, for their “empirical analysis of asset prices.” Although there is no way to predict the prices of stocks and bonds in a short term, the...

The current governor of Guayas and pre-candidate for Mayor of Guayaquil, Viviana Bonilla, announced the possible construction of a metro system which is going to work in parallel with the Metrovía. The construction of the project, confirmed yesterday by the Minister of Transport,...

On the eve of the popular celebration of Halloween, the U.S. television series, The Walking Dead, released yesterday its fourth season, which promises to be more bloody, with the help of Scott Gimple, the new creative head. The AMC drama tells the story of a group of survivors,...

Yesterday was released the new album of the band of Seattle, Pearl Jam, titled “Lightning bolt”, which highlights the remarkable musical level achieved by the group in their last albums. This quintet led by Eddie Vedder, forger of the grunge sound  in the 1990s, along...