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“State Policy“, that’s how the National Assembly of Ecuador today declared the defense before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on the case against the country by U.S. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY). With 88 votes in...

Tonight, 23 beauty queens will fight for the crown of the Queen of Guayas. The beauty pageant  will be held at  the Centro de Arte Theatre in the city of Guayaquil. This year these are the ladies competing for the crown: Ingrid Pacheco, Balao Evelin Moreira, Balzar Brigitt...

Today, October 31, we celebrate the day of our National Emblem or Coat of Arms, which was approved in 1900 by the National Congress during the presidency of General Eloy Alfaro Delgado and designed by master Peter Paul Traversari. Full of color and symbolism, every part of our...

Colombian singer and actress Margarita Rosa de Francisco gets naked for her next music video  “Canción para las cosas”, the first single from her upcoming album “Bailarina”. “The idea came up from a photo shoot underwater I did for my boyfriend Will...

Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of people gathered at the bottom of Santa Ana Port, at Barrio las Peñas, to  express their anger and others to support  the placement of a bust in honor of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who commanded the Cuban Revolution.  The majority group...

Yesterday, after four years and ten days of a transition period, the Assessment Committee appointed the nine judges who will join the Constitutional Court (CC) until 2021. The new CC will be presented today at a national radio and television broadcast. The National Assembly shall...

Yesterday millions of North Americans awoke before a scene of destruction caused by the monster storm Sandy after ravaging the east coast of the United States, which left without energy several heavily populated portions of the region in the country and causing floods. In the...

The alleged deposit certificates  of Rocafuerte Insurance,  which guaranteed the credit of $ 800 thousand granted by COFIEC to the Argentinean Gaston Duzac were never in the bank, which belongs to the Management Unit of Public Right (Ugedep for its Spanish acronym). That’s...

Ralph Hannah, Latin American representative of Guinness World Records, said Ecuador set a new record for this book, due to the collecting of 1.559.0002 plastic bottles for recycling, in a period of fifteen days. Hannah explains that this record considered the amount, the time of...

Tonight, American punk band, Simple Plan, will hold a concert at the Agora de la Casa de la Cultura in Quito at 21H00. A few days earlier, the band posted on their Twitter account: “Ecuador!! We are keeping our promise and we are coming to play for you in Quito on October 26th!...