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An audit carried out by the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) determined that the Banana Control System (Unibanano) “has many weaknesses in its security.” The Minister of Agriculture, Bernardo Manzano, reported that there are weaknesses in the Banana Control System...

After ten years, since it was implemented, the Banana Control System (Unibanano), of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), will be discharged and replaced by another until next September, announced this Tuesday the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Bernard...

In an interview with PRIMICIAS, the Minister of Energy, Xavier Vera-Grunauer, explains that the negotiation of the extension of the contract in Block 16, located in Yasuní, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a priority. The Supervisory Commission of the National Assembly investigates...

The scarcity and high prices of urea, due to the war in Ukraine and other disruptions, have led some maize growers to migrate to cocoa cultivation. Corn production in Ecuador showed good results in 2021, with 1.6 million metric tons in  373,587 hectares , according to the Espac...

According to the president of the financial entity, the sale process is in an intermediate phase. This means that the advisory bank has invited more than 30 international entities that will analyze the valuation and other preliminary information. The sale process of Banco de...

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,...

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,...

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 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...

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...