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Pedro Delgado is undocumented and his family received passports

Since yesterday, Monday January 21, 2013, Pedro Delgado Campana, cousin of the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, was legally stateless or without nationality. Due to the expiration of his diplomatic visa and for not having a regular passport the former president of the Central...
Posted On 22 Jan 2013
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Jorge Glas signed as an engineer before having his title

A new complaint has been made against Jorge Glas Espinel, current candidate of Allianza Pais in the formula with the president, Rafael Correa. Research led by the opposition Assemblyman Galo Lara revealed that in 1999 and 2002, the candidate signed documents with the abbreviation...
Posted On 22 Jan 2013
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Piqué confirms that his child will be born today

This morning the Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique, 25, confirmed that today is the day his first child with Colombian singer Shakira will born. “On Tuesday, our first child will be born,” wrote FC Barcelona player on his Instagram profile, on the forthcoming birth...
Posted On 22 Jan 2013
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Acer’s new 7-inch Tablet

Laptop producer, Acer launched on the market its own 7-inch Tablet called Icon B1-A71. Acer joins the market initiated by Samsung in 2011 with its Galaxy Tab 7.7. Apple produced last year the iPad Mini, although Steve Jobs assured it was not going to work. B1-A71 costs around...
Posted On 22 Jan 2013
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Ecuador’s public spending is 30.5% of GDP

  According to the Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Ecuador is one of the Latin American countries with higher levels of public spending over its Gross...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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The transfer of shares to the CFN led to a forced sale of the PNB

Having transferred the shares of the Banco Pacifico Ecuador, owner of the Pacific National Bank (PNB), based in Miami, to the National Finance Corporation (CFN for its Spanish acronym), by decision of the Office of the President through the Executive Decree 941, was the reason...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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Jorge Glas denies the alleged plagiarism of his university thesis

Last Sunday, the former Strategic Sectors Minister, Jorge Glas defended the authenticity of his thesis saying that the alleged plagiarism for which he is accused is according to a “political issue and bad faith“. Glas made these remarks during an interview on...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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According to Spanish media, Shakira will give birth today

Colombian singer Shakira and her boyfriend, Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique, are preparing for the upcoming birth of their first child, which name is still unknown. Spanish media “La Razón” confirmed that the couple announced that their  son would be born on Monday in...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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More than 52,000 Ecuadorians left Spain

According to the latest data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the foreign population in Spain fell in 2012. This is the first drop in fifteen years. Ecuadorians are the largest group of foreigners who decided to leave Spain the past 2012, with 52,536 citizens...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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Djokovic classified for the fifteenth time in Australian Open

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australia Open, after a grueling match against Stanislas Wawrinka, who was defeated  in five sets (1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 and 12-10), one of the most competitive matches. This is the fifteenth consecutive year...
Posted On 21 Jan 2013
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