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From 18:00 street 6 de Marzo will be closed to traffic due to congestion caused by the sale and exhibition of Años viejos (End of the year dolls). According to the commander of the Transit Commission of Ecuador (CTE), Luis Lalama, only street intersections such as Huancavilca 6...

Ecuador’s environmental plan, which plans to prevent the exploitation of 846 million barrels of oil in the Yasuní Amazonian park, will extend over 2 years, according to the government’s chief negotiator, Ivonne Baki. The goal for the next two years (2012 – 2013)...

Lady Gaga will share the stage of Manhattan’s Times Square with rock legends like Patti Smith and Chuck Berry and other artists such as Placido Domingo on Saturday December 31st in New York. Since 1908 thousands of New Yorkers and tourists celebrate New Year in Times...

Yesterday, judges from the Second Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice refused the appeal presented by Emilio Palacio, former editor of Review newspaper El Universo, in the slander complaint against President Rafael Correa. With this resource Palacio had chance to...

The Ministry of Labour Relations set the Ecuadorian base salary at $ 292for 2012. The increase was mandated by the State portfolio as workers and employers failed to reach an agreement. The actual base salary, $ 264, expires this month and was raised $ 28 (10.6%). However, labor...

Yesterday, Roberto Gilbert Febres-Cordero filed his candidacy for president of the soccer team Club Sport Emelec. Gilbert did not submit a list of who will accompany him on the campaign and said it was still unknown whether or not to ratify current coach Marcelo Fleitas, if he is...

Former Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad (1998-2000), who is asylum in the U.S., faces a custody order because of the issuance of two decrees ordering the freezing and banking holiday in 1999. The accusers, former socialist MP Victor Granda and Anti-Corruption Commission former...

A massive Christmas dinner, organized by the City Hall of Guayaquil for approximately 4 thousand elderly people, was held yesterday along Malecon Simon Bolivar. For the second year in a row, the City Hall of Guayaquil offered this meal for elderly people living in urban areas of...

Alvaro Noboa attended the 32-years of work of the leprosarium of the Damian House. During his presence Noboa read a passage from the Bible regarding the work of John the Baptist. Afterwards Alvaro Noboa expressed his joy for the great work that the foundation does and along with...

Legislator Cesar Montufar, from Concertación Nacional Movement, was sued by the Ecuadorian president’s attorney, Gutemberg Vera. Vera added that this criminal case does not require the endorsement of the National Assembly, because of the parliamentary immunity that it gives to...