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Obama : “Marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes”

In an interview with the New Yorker magazine, published in last Sunday’s edition, U.S. President, Barack Obama, said that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes. “As has been well documented, I smoked marijuana when I was young and I see it as a bad habit...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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The agricultural sector as a new productive matrix

Trough the change of the productive matrix, the Government seeks to strengthen the sectors in which the country has been distinguished since its origins: agriculture and livestock. “Increasing value in production and diversify it” is one of the challenges, according...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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The Orchestra Conductor, Claudio Abbado, dies at age 80

The Orchestra conductor, Claudio Abbado (Milan, 1933), died this morning in Bologna at the age of 80. The director was throughout his extensive career musical director of the Scala of Milan, the Staatsoper of Vienna and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic, where he...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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National Ceramic production accelerates

After the resolution that products that do not meet the new INEN quality standards can not enter the country, the giant ovens in pottery factories in Cuenca have not stop producing. Domestic producers indicate that the national production has been impaired for several years with...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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Supercom awaits for Bonil’s response

The Superintendency of Information and Communication (Supercom) is awaiting for a response to the letter sent to El Universo newspaper’s cartoonist, Xavier Bonilla, “Bonil” after he was notified of a legal process, as provided by Article 9 of Regulation for...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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OECD reveals Revenue Statistics in Latin America 2014

Within the agenda of the XXVI Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Report of Revenue Statistics in Latin America 2014 will be formally introduced this Monday by the Organization for Economic...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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UN calls on Iran to participate in the peace summit

This morning, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the invitation extended to Iran to dialogue during the conversations called Geneva II, on next Wednesday, to find a solution to the Syrian civil war. Ki-moon said after meting several times with Iranian representatives, they...
Posted On 20 Jan 2014
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Stricter rules in phone operators

Since July this year, more stricter measures of phone operators would come in force. The measure comes after that on last January 10, National Telecommunications Council (Conatel for its Spanish acronym) defined various settings for these indicators. Such adjustments aim to...
Posted On 19 Jan 2014
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Government of Venezuela and Capriles meet to coordinate security plans

On last Saturday, the Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Miguel Rodriguez, met with the governor of Miranda, former presidential candidate and opposition leader Henrique Capriles, along with 21 mayors forming this entity, to discuss, for six hours, efforts in security that they...
Posted On 19 Jan 2014
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Venezuelan journals are running out of paper

The owners of Venezuelan newspapers, particularly those in opposition trend towards the Government of Nicolás Maduro, are worried about the lack of paper in presses, which is attributed in part to the distortions in change control and partly to a government strategy to...
Posted On 18 Jan 2014
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