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Borrowing to cover day-to-day expenses decreases people’s ability to save in Ecuador; interest ‘eats’ the income that could be used for savings. The majority of Ecuadorians cannot save and do not have proper management of their expenses and their debts,...

On May 27, Ecuador registered the first suspected case of monkeypox in Quito and the patient underwent the corresponding test. On the night of May 20, 2022, the Ministry of Health ruled out that it was a case of monkeypox and Ximena Garzón, minister of the State portfolio, added...

The National Court of Justice (CNJ) sent this Friday to the Foreign Ministry the file with the request for the extradition of former President Rafael Correa, sentenced in 2020 to eight years in prison for bribery and who is in Belgium, where he obtained, according to his defense,...

Migrant tragedies occur almost daily on the US – Mexico border . This keeps Ecuadorian families who have their loved ones in transit or who are missing on permanent alert . The Migration Police confirmed yesterday that two of the six migrants who died in the overturning of...

The Unibanano system must control the traceability of the production and export of bananas. But, the Minister of Agriculture himself, Bernardo Manzano, acknowledges that there was “manipulation” on the platform. The banana sector is facing a difficult year. In the...

The Ministry of Health reported that the first suspected case of monkeypox was registered in Ecuador. Minister Ximena Garzón indicated, on the morning of this Friday, May 27, 2022, that the patient is under observation and in confinement. “Thanks to the epidemiological alert that...

The National Assembly once again entered into a legal conflict derived from a precautionary measure granted in favor of the Pachakutik movement, which blocks the intention of the opposition to know and decide on the report presented by the multi-party commission that recommends...

Mortality in Ecuador from covid-19 has not increased in recent weeks, according to the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón. The average number of deaths from the virus is one person per week. The State official explained, at a press conference, that deaths occur in people who have...

Ecuadorians Álex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez , two young indigenous people from the A’i Cofán native people, are the only two Latin American winners of the 2022 Goldman Prize for having achieved a historic legal victory that allowed their territories in the Amazon to be...

Employment stood at 63.4% nationwide in April of this year, when in 2021 of the same month it was 62.5%. But there are other figures that show that the situation still demands a strategy to solve the labor problem. The unemployment rate in Ecuador reached 4.7% in April of this...