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The Ecuadorian government will disburse during the year 2015 nearly $ 3,000 million to finance hydroelectric mega projects such as Coca Codo Sinclair, Pilaton-Toachi, Manduriacu, among others, which are built in the country. These hydroelectric plants built by the State, will...

Hundreds of people remained blocked on Sunday afternoon in difficult weather conditions, aboard an Italian ferry that caught fire off the Greek coast due to a fire that was traveling from Greek port of Patras to Ancona, in Italy, reported authorities of the country. Rescuers were...

A citizen oversight body will be responsible for overseeing the transfer of resources of the 68 additional public and private pension funds to the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess). The Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, will try the...

The Ministry of Tourism reported that about 1,5 million foreigners, mainly Colombians, Americans and Peruvians, visited Ecuador in 2014, recording a new record. During 2013, about 1.4 million foreigners walkers visited Ecuador, according to the ministry, which generated foreign...

Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists began on Friday the exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war under the agreement reached last Wednesday in Minsk, unique progress in talks that did not allow solve the underlying problems. This first exchange (in the city of Kostiantinivka,...

North Korea on Saturday called US President Barack Obama, “monkey”, accusing him of inciting to show the film “The Interview” about fictional death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and threatened with an “irreparable crushing blow”....

The National Assembly on Monday will perform its last plenary session this year where a resolution and two bills will be discussed. The general secretary of the Legislative sent last December 24 the agenda with three issues. The first is the draft resolution of solidarity with...

The FARC announced the activation of special humanitarian protocol to release “in the coming days,” the soldier of the Colombian army, Carlos Becerra Ojeda, captured six days ago in the department of Cauca (south). “We informed the country that today has...

The Superintendency of Information and Communication Supercom incriminated the Mayor of Quito, Mauricio Rodas, in a case of censorship and fined him with 10 unified basic wage, ie, $ 3,400. According to Supercom, the Mayor, as the highest authority of the Municipality of Quito,...

Berkeley (Missouri,) located in the downtown area of the US, was the scene of protests on Christmas Eve this year by racial tension after the murder of another young man afro. Dozens of protesters held a vigil at the gas station in this suburb of Saint Louis where a young African...