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On January 22, the Prefects of Guayas and Los Ríos, Jimmy Jairala and Marco Troya respectively, met in the plenary hall of the Provincial Council of Guayas to sign the agreement definition of limits and settle the territorial disputes in three of the four points in conflict...

The state will subsidize retirement pensions in order that housewives have access to this benfit, said on Wednesday, January 21 the Minister of Labour, Carlos Marx Carrasco, in Guayaquil. This, in relation with the Social Justice and Labor Award of Household Work bills. “It...

Assistant Secretary of State US for Latin America, Roberta Jacobson, said on Friday than in “a few weeks” she expects a new round of talks in Washington to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. “We have not set a date yet, but we expect that this talsk take...

The Minister of Telecommunications, Augusto Espín, said that private telephone companies Claro and Movistar reached an agreement with the Government for extending the spectrum of the 4G network. Espín said negotiations concluded with the enterprises and now “is an issue of...

The analysis in the first debate of the Rural Lands and Ancestral Territories bill began this Thursday, January 22 amid protests of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE for its Spanish acronym), who demanded the ruling party´s proposal file. Next week...

After that last December 29, the Committee of Foreign Trade (Comex) approved the increase in the tariffs percentage on 588 products, including keyboards, memories, printers, calculators, laptops, etc; the tariff increase was set between the 5% and 15% in technological equipments....

 President Rafael Correa and his lawyer, Caupolicán Ochoa, are evaluating the possibility of setting up a new trial for alleged offense, against doctor and activist Carlos Figueroa. This judgment would be made by the statements made to the press about the version of the events of...

The coordination of the block of Alianza PAIS (AP) plans a meeting with the authorities of the legislative commissions in order to finish setting the agenda 2015 and therefore, defining the status of pending laws. Alexandra Ocles, block coordinator, said that the legislative...

The absence of a constitutional and legal norm casts doubts that Carlos Ramírez opts for the reelection in the presidency of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), especially when the Council of Justice (CJ) ranked him as the best evaluated judge, with 99.10...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro proposed to increase the price of gasoline, which is the cheapest in the world and consumes a millionaire subsidy before the “serious economic difficulties” the country is facing by the fall in the price of oil barrel. During...