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Markets calm down and country risk relaxes

Ecuadornews: Does a light appear at the end of the tunnel? In recent days, the situation of the so-called emerging countries, such as Argentina and Turkey, seems to improve and this effect is also felt in Ecuador. In recent months, the currency crises in Argentina and Turkey,...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Inter-institutional Committee will regulate the country’s aquaculture and fishing sector

Ecuadornews: Within a period not exceeding 60 days, the Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries will be transformed into a Technical Secretariat, which will be under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment. Guilds criticize the government’s measure. Decree...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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The reduction of 99% interest and fines in the IESS expires in 60 days

Ecuadornews: Until September 20, the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) raised $ 11 million for the reduction of interest, fines and surcharges, part of the Productive Development Law in force since August 21. Carlos Vallejo, general director of the IESS, highlighted...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Attorney’s office, in the focus of millionaire foreign demands

Ecuadornews: Although the arbitration award of August 30 in favor of the oil company Chevron, which obliges the State to pay a compensation not yet determined, put the PRD in a bind, in its Directorate of International Affairs still awaits, in addition, another eight arbitration...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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The ancestral manabitas products are shown in agricultural fair

Ecuadornews: The farmers of 23 communities annually in September exhibit the fruits that are part of the province’s gastronomy. They also hold competitions to see who gets the largest species. “What the earth gives us is sacred, therefore the sacred is the...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Agreement defines export of rice

Ecuadornews: The general manager of the National Storage Unit (UNA EP), Rodrigo Solano, the deputy minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Alexandra Peralta and representatives of the Guayas and Los Ríos rice farms agreed, on Thursday, to export 27,000 tons of paddy or paddy rice....
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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More than 200 political groups are authorized for 2019

Ecuadornews: Six months before the sectional elections of March 24, 2019, the Transitional National Electoral Council plans to approve today the Permanent Register of Political Organizations that contains the list of candidates that may apply. Until last Thursday 223 legalized...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Family sagas seek their space in local politics

Ecuadornews: Everything stays within family. Father and son, husband and wife, and even brothers. The impossibility of some sectional authorities to re-elect themselves in office has pushed them to look for candidates for successors, not between the leadership and bases of their...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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Okaso bets half a million dollars for more pitahaya

Ecuadornews: The sun hides behind the beaches of San Jacinto and San Clemente. It is seen moving away from the 30 hectares of pitahaya planted by Olvin Intriago, originally from Junín. The farm is named after the initials of each member of his family: Okaso. From the road that...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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In Loja, the best coffee is exposed

Ecuadornews: Coffee growers from fourteen provinces of the country came to Loja to exhibit and market their best grains in the VI Loja National Meeting, coffee flavor. “Behind the coffee, how many stories, and how much we can do around coffee, but the time has come not only...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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