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At 20h00 on Thursday night, the Legislative Assembly of Ecuador approved the Financial Bill, with 73 votes in favor and 31 votes against, 1 absent vote and another vote in blank. The Second Debate of the Law took place yesterday with nearly 20 legislators, while the Government...

Four Ecuadorian miners got trapped 150 meters underground in Portovelo, El Oro. The accident happened at 3 in the morning, there was a landslide in Casa Negra mine, from the Mine Sadco Company. At the moment a crisis committee is working on the rescue plan. “The filling material...

Yesterday, Ecuador’s Presidency declared that November 1st (Monday) would be a part of the holidays. “Five days is too much,” said the Legal Secretary of the Presidency, Alexis Mera, while he expressed it was impossible to have a 5 day long holiday (from October 30th to November...

Here you can see a Photo Album of the best pictures from the Rescue of Chilean Miners. Click on the ‘Next’ Button to see the next image on the album and ‘Back’ to go back to the previous image. If you want to see a better quality click on the image to...

The Ecuadorian balance of trade registered a deficit in the first eight months of the year. Between January and August the importations exceeded the exports with an amount of $862,9 millions. This number represents a growth of 176% compared to the same period of 2009 whose...

MADRID, SPAIN – ‘El País’, the morning newspaper from Madrid, Spain, announced on sunday that Iranian authorities cancelled the residency permit of Ángeles Espinisa, correspondent of the newspaper in Tehran. After authorities withdrew her press card on July, her...

QUITO – Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera, and The Nobel Peace Price of 1980, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel visited Rafael Correa in the Presidential Palace today, to show him their support after the incidents of September 30th. Pérez Esquivel arrived at 10.20 local time at the...

QUITO – The retirement pensions for the elderly in Ecuador have been approved to increase by $40 today by the Social Security Institute of Ecuador (IESS). Ramiro González, Chairman of the Board of IESS, reported on Monday that an increase of $40 was made to the retirees....

CNN “It’s an affirmation of what he has fought for,” said Liu Xia after finding out her husband Liu Xiaobo had been awarded the 2010 Peace Nobel Prize. Liu Xiaobo, a dissident who is serving an 11-year prison term after repeatedly calling for human rights and...

After 8 days of the confrontation between members of the Police and the Military in the operation to take out the President from the Hospital of the Police on September 30th, where at least 5 people lost their lives and more than 200 people got hurt, the dome of the Police and...