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Correa is expelled from the Movement “Acuerdo Nacional”

Ecuadornews: The Ecuadorian Movement “Acuerdo Nacional” (MANA) today staged the symbolic expulsion from its ranks of former President Rafael Correa, and a group of hierarchs related to him, to “clean” them for their registration as a party. In a press conference in...
Posted On 09 Aug 2018
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The Productive Law is the lifeline for the end of the year

Ecuadornews: Oxygen for a complicated second semester. The Law of Productive Development, which was finally approved by the National Assembly last Tuesday, hopes to give the government a break in liquidity through two channels. The first is the tax remission. Esteban Albornoz,...
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Ecuador could export energy to Chile

Ecuadornews: The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, met with his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, to address issues related to the Andean electricity interconnection, the Llurimagua-Codelco mining project, investment treaties and air connectivity. The meeting was held on...
Posted On 08 Aug 2018
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The IESS has 143 providers in Guayas

Ecuadornews: The mystery is resolved in parts. The expenses of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) begin to show their affiliates. The information on hiring external providers, which was elusive in previous administrations, comes to light and shows the dependence...
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3 million adults undertook in 2017

Ecuadornews: Three out of ten adult Ecuadorians are entrepreneurs in Ecuador. Of these, 52.1% are women and 47.9% are men. The data was unveiled by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Ecuador presented by the Polytechnic School of the Litoral (Espol). GEM Ecuador collected...
Posted On 08 Aug 2018
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Assembly exhorts to remove the monument to Kirchner from UNASUR

Ecuadornews: With 72 affirmative votes, the National Assembly approved a resolution that urges the Executive to withdraw “immediately” the monument of former President Nestor Kirchner of the headquarters building of UNASUR, in Quito, and to be replaced “by a...
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Aggression in Las Cumbres takes a new legal turn

Ecuadornews: Neither the aggressors nor the assaulted appear publicly, after the social networks viralized on Monday, August 6, the video of an act of violence that took place on Sunday afternoon at a security checkpoint in the Las Cumbres urbanization. “What my lawyer...
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The economy discourages the creation of businesses

Ecuadornews: The economic instability that the country is living has not only affected the loss of quality jobs, but also the desire to create and sustain new businesses. At least that is how the statistics of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) coincide, which for 2017...
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Chile, Ecuador and Peru could see lower productivity in fishing due to climate change impact

Ecuadornews: Chile, Ecuador and Peru could see lower productivity in fisheries and a higher frequency of El Niño and La Niña events, due to the impact of climate change on the Humboldt current, according to an FAO study released on Tuesday. In recent decades, the ecosystem of the...
Posted On 08 Aug 2018
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Hernán Darío Gómez: ‘Ecuador is not a potency; less now that it did not go to the World Cup’

Ecuadornews: The technical director Hernán Darío Gómez recognizes that there are “contras and critics” to his second stage with the Ecuadorian soccer team. The Colombian speaks of “a path of roses and thorns” that he must travel to classify Ecuador to the...
Posted On 08 Aug 2018
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