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“2017 is just around the corner and the SUMA movement will continue growing and will achieve the application of its ideals throughout Ecuador.” With those words, Mauricio Rodas, Mayor of Quito and president of that political group, asked his followers, during the...

Colombian Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas announced that his government will cut the nation’s budget on six billion pesos ($ 2,440 million) to ensure fiscal stability before the reduction of international oil prices. The official said the cuts will “implement tough...

With the creation of the Ministry of Mining in recent weeks, the government expects to give a definite boost to mining projects of medium and large scale, considered strategic for the country. The five main are in the awaiting since 2010, but none has yet entered in the...

Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica said Sunday that Argentina should join regional integration led by Brazil, in an interview with the daily profile. “Argentina would have to accompany (integration), and does not accompany a fuck, rather the opposite, it is as if...

A group of Chilean former guerrillas who were part of an armed group that fought against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) announced the founding of a new political party. “With the rebellion of the past and the dignity of the present” is the motto of...

A report from the Commission of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) makes a number of observations to the Ecuadorian labor legislation in relation with the Convention 87, relating to the freedom of...

The regulation of the Organic Law of Communication (LOC for its Spanish acronym), signed by President Rafael Correa in January of 2014, established that foreigners could be allowed to own media in Ecuador. The regulations (Executive Decree No. 214) ruled that the ban for...

Complementary works to put into operation the mobile hospital of the Army, installed a week ago in the north parking lot of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital of the IESS in Guayaquil, continued the night of February 22 without being defined what day of the week it will begin...

The defense of Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who was arrested for alleged conspiracy against the Venezuelan government, will appeal the decision on the grounds that the allegations are “unfounded,” his lawyer said during the weekend. “The defense will exercise...

A mission of Ecuadorian authorities will arrive to Lima on Thursday to review the technical regulations with the aim to allow the entry of Peruvian products to Ecuador. The Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Magali Silva, said they are currently working to bring...