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A fierce seism with a 7,1 magnitude in the Richter Scale was felt at 20 kilometres from the locality La Vega, Colombia. The natural phenomena occurred last Sunday around 13:31 (GMT). According to the report of the Seismological Service of the United States, USGS, the epicentre of...

Maria Eugenia Cordovez Ponton, ex wife of former President of Ecuador, León Febres-Cordero, died Sunday morning  in Guayaquil. Mrs. Cordovez, who was known for her charisma and strong character, served as First Lady from 1984 to 1988, time when Febres Cordero was President of the...

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, again requested safety pass for the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, during the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last September 26. The British government continues to deny the safety pass to Assange, who has a...

Antonio Bunay, former president of COFIEC, worked in the financial organization from July of 2010 until January of 2012. He was the responsible of approving the deposits made by the Embassy of Iran on November 15 and 24 of 2011. However, Bunay doesn’t know how did 1,8 million...

QUITO, Ecuador The Concertacion movement, led by Cesar Montufar, stayed out of the 2013 elections according to the signature verification process carried out by the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). Concertacion required 17,500 signatures to complete the...

Yesterday afternoon, Independiente Jose Teran soccer team tied 2 -2 against Barcelona Sporting Club at the Monumental stadium. Michael Arroyo scored in minutes 46 and 72 in favor of the visitors, while Daniel Angulo (58m) and Edgar Balbuena (88m) tied the game for the canary...

The current division between large groups of rebels in Syria, complicate the mission of the UN to end with the Syria Civil War. Activists have reported that an air raid in a northern town in Damascus killed more than 21 people. Meanwhile Mokhtar Lamani, the representative of the...

From his home in Miami, Alvaro Noboa, the presidential candidate, stated through telephone that the “kidnapping of his goods” that the IRS began two days ago, “is one more event of this unfair process” that is being carried out against him. Regarding his seized goods, seven cars,...

COFIEC, is a bank of the Ecuadorian state, received two deposits in cash from the Embassy of Iran, one from $500,000 and another for 1’360,000. Gustavo Becerra, the compliance officer of COFIEC informed that on November 11 and 14 of 2011, two accounts were created for the Embassy...

It’s hard to determine exactly what went down on September 30 of 2010, a day in which the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa went to the “Regimiento Quito” to solve the police insurrection. After a heated speech, and gestures that including throwing a tie and saying with a...