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After having collaborated from diplomacy for 40 years, with eight governments of different ideological tendencies, Ivonne Baki is concerned. In her office, on the second floor of the Ecuadorian embassy in Washington, she shares coffee and Ecuadorian sweets with her visitors. She...

According to the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, from January to December 2021, Ecuadorian non-oil exports to Russia left a balance of $1,000 million, with a growth of 8.7% compared to 2020 ($80 millions more). The main products were bananas,...

The United States prohibits the entry into the country of former President Abdalá Bucaram , his three sons Dalo, Jacobo and Michel and his wife María Rosa. It declared them “ineligible”, according to the State Department, for “significant” acts of...

The banana producers propose to the Government the creation of a contingency fund with their own financing (from the banana producers themselves), through the withholding of $0.05 per box sold to minimize the losses that may be caused by the war between Russia and Ukraine. This...

The economic movement generated by the recent Carnival holiday in Ecuador amounted to 66.8 million dollars for tourist spending during the four days of vacation, the Ministry of Tourism reported Monday. In a statement, he noted that the figure represents “an additional...

At 10:50 this Friday, March 4, the first humanitarian flight with Ecuadorians residing in Ukraine and fleeing the war between that country and Russia arrived at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre International Airport. It is a flight of the company Word2Fly where 248 compatriots come...

Noboa Trading Co. (former Exportadora Bananera Noboa), owned by Álvaro Noboa Pontón, is already close to the second largest exporter in Ecuador (Rey Banano del Pacífico). It is separated by less than 200,000 boxes. The data for January 2022, from the Banana Marketing and Export...

The Foreign Minister of the Republic, Juan Carlos Holguín, in an interview, reported that “in the last few hours” more than 200 urgent passports have been issued for Ecuadorian students in Ukraine. According to the official, “every day a new student...

The Attorney General of Ecuador (State Legal Defense) announced this Thursday that several properties of former authorities convicted in a corruption case have been registered as confiscation, including former President Rafael Correa, who has lived in Belgium since leaving power...

Finally arrived. On the afternoon of February 22, 2022, the Executive sent the project called Law for the attraction of Investments, Strengthening of the Stock Market and Digital Transformation.  Guillermo Lasso’s proposal has 260 articles and consists of three books. The...