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President Rafael Correa signed Decree 601 which establishes the reduction of salaries of the superior level of the entire public sector, excepting the areas of education, health, justice, Armed Forces and National Police. In addition, the President said after a public sector...

Large part of the southern United States has declared this Wednesday a state of emergency and several schools have been closed before the mix of snow and ice that is expected to continue affecting that part of the American nation. Heavy snowfall and rains accompanied by...

The Venezuelan Attorney’s office announced yesterday the death of a 14 year old minor in a demonstration in San Cristobal after being shot in the head, and announced that three prosecutors have been appointed to clarify what happened. A statement from the prosecutor...

The Public Relations firm MCSquared sued actress Sharon Stone for not fulfilling with her obligation to appear in Ecuador in the campaign “The dirty hand of Chevron” against oil pollution in the Amazon, as reported by New York Daily News. The agency ensures it paid...

The formation of the so-called Political Front for National Unity in the Diversity (Frente Político por la Unidad Nacional en la Diversidad,by its Spanish name) which is integrated by local authorities of different political parties to the ruling one, is not well seen by Alianza...

Citizens are beginning to see the consequences of the adjustment to the Vehicular Environmental Pollution Tax. Now, owners of vehicles of more than five years of fabrication and a cylinder capacity exceeding 2 500 cubic centimeters (cm3) must pay a larger amount along with the...

A UN report released on Wednesday said that tortures and mistreatment of detainees in the Afghan conflict fell in 2013-2014 compared to the previous two years, although it persists, according to one third of prisoners. 790 detainees interviewed by the UN, 278 (35%), said they had...

Due to the lack of prior notification to the Ministry of Justice, a transition court denied on February 24 a writ of habeas data access to know the report of the Interministerial Committee of the Executive branch on the death of Jorge Gabela, former commander of the Ecuadorian...

Ecuador made a request to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to “regulate production” and thus push up oil prices, which according to President Rafael Correa “are unnecessarily low.” Correa said that Ecuador and other members of...

Minister of Industries Ramiro Gonzalez said yesterday that the preliminary list of products on which the safeguard will be applied by balance of payments would be completed. Authorities of the production Front and President Rafael Correa said that in late February multilateral...