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Ecuadornews: The Argentine Chamber of Cassation today acquitted former President Carlos Menem (1989-1999) for a crime of aggravated arms smuggling to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995 for which he had been previously sentenced to seven years in prison, they reported...

Ecuadornews: The Municipality of Guayaquil, through its mayor, Jaime Nebot, clarified that the entity did not sue the club Barcelona, but denounced the sports institution for withholding taxes, coming from the box office. In an official statement, Nebot explained that “the...

Ecuadornews: ‘El Llamado’ is the name of the cultural, artistic and charitable event that took place at the Cayena Beach hotel in Montañita, on the Ruta del Spondylus. The culture and art were on a table adorned with flowers and fruits where there were traditional...

Ecuadornews: The President of the Republic Lenin Moreno criticized on Wednesday the policies of the Government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in higher education. He said that it is a lack of vision that the fourth most populated city in the country, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas,...

Ecuadornews: Of 18 economic activities, oil refining was the most contracted in the second quarter of the year: -36.2%, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest report of National Accounts of the Central Bank of Ecuador published on Friday of last week....

Ecuadornews: The capture of a supposed kidnapper who lived in a rented house in the El Río urbanization, located on the Samborondón road, aroused the concern of the residents of the area. The case, added to other home thefts that have arisen in the sector, caused the presidents...

Ecuadornews: Warmi Muyo was created in 2015 by the artists Manaii Kowi and Gabriela Remache, both from the Kichwa people Otavalo, and Tirsa Chindoy, from the Inga people of Colombia. They came together with the objective of strengthening the presence of indigenous women in art....

Ecuadornews: The Ecuadorian legislator Sofía Espín will be investigated by a commission of the National Assembly for having visited in prison an indicted defendant and witness in a kidnapping case in which the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is accused. This was...

Ecuadornews: The government’s budget deficit continues to fall according to the Central Bank’s forecasts. The country will end the year with a deficit of $ 4,380 million, a less dramatic figure than that of – $ 6,142 million with which it closed 2017. Meanwhile,...

Ecuadornews: Former agent Diana F., one of the four people prosecuted for the kidnapping of politician Fernando Balda, was threatened by another prisoner in the women’s prison in southern Quito, where she is being held. The incident took place around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday,...