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Rene Ramirez, besides being Senplades and Senescyt chairman, was sworn yesterday as the new Ecuadorian Chairman of Higher Education, body in charge for the administering policies and regulation of the country’s university system. Ramirez, who represents the Executive, was...

Ecuador will play against Costa Rica in the last game before the preliminary round plays for the Brazil World Cup 2014. This game will be played at 16:00 in the Stadium Olimpico Atahualpa. Meanwhile the Sport Director of the Ecuadorian team, Reinaldo Rueda will only make one...

Today Italy was almost paralyzed by a strike called by the CIGL sindicate, the same day the Senate is about to discuss the economic adjustment plan of Silvio Berlusconi’s Conservative government. The adjustment plan has undergone numerous modifications since its adoption in the...

Last Monday, the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, declared a judicial emergency to ensure legal services in a controversial transition period of the courts and judges. Correa’s decree will last for 60 days and it will permit the government to mobilize the judiciary throughout...

The third trial of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, 83, began Monday in Cairo. Mubarak arrived at the courthouse in an ambulance because he has heart problems and depression. The statements of witnesses would determine the president’s responsibility in the deaths of...

Nicolás Lappenti, former first racket of Ecuadorian tennis, said goodbye to this sport with a friendly match against his friend, the also retired tennis player, Pit Sampras. More than 9,500 spectators attended the match held at the Voltaire Paladins Polo Coliseum. “Today...

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez today called the BRIC countries (Brazil, India, China and Russia) and Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) to launch a “counterattack” to “barbarism” of international operations against the regime of...

Starting today the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MAGAP) of Ecuador will begin to pay $ 2 for export quality banana clusters which were purchased from local producers. The payment will be effective for those exporters that sold their product on August 26. The...

600 people are part of the tracking team that is working to find the bodies of 17 victims of the plane crash in the Archipelago of Juan Fernandez and the wreckage of the Air Force CASA 212. Tactical and rescue divers groups will be deployed to begin a review of a seabed portion...

David Chiriboga, Ecuador’s Health Minister announced via Twitter that the Government has recovered more than 111,000 bottles of illicit liquor during a local campaign to take out of the market around fourteen brands of audulterade  liquor with methanol.  However, the...