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Nebot Mayor criticizes mural of former dictators by Febres Cordero image

The Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, showed his total rejection by the location of the figure of the late President of Ecuador, León Febres Cordero, alongside the American former dictators in a mural exposed on the outside of the General Attorney in Quito and inagurated last...
Posted On 13 Dec 2014
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Barrel price of oil drops at $ 57.81

lOil prices in New York again fell hard on Friday December 12, to a minimum of five and a half years after a cut demand forecasts by the International Energy Agency (IEA). A barrel of “light sweet crude” (WTI, the benchmark crude for Ecuador) for January delivery fell...
Posted On 13 Dec 2014
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UK seeks to clarify alleged CIA torture

Calls in the UK to clarify the actions of the British secret services in the “war against the terrorism” have not stopped increasing since CIA tortures were released. The incriminating report released on Tuesday by the US Senate has raised many questions still...
Posted On 13 Dec 2014
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Argentine Vice President will go to oral trial for alleged forgery of documents

The Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou will go to trial for alleged forging of a public document, thus becoming the first Vice president in office to face a court. Judge Claudio Bonadio was commissioned to dictate the judgement of the case after the rejection of the...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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Palestinian citizen attacks a family And Israeli civilians with acid

The Israeli army reported on Friday that a Palestinian attacked with acid and wounded several Israelis, including children, in the West Bank near Jerusalem, who was then injured when shot in the leg. “According to preliminary information, a Palestinian attacked a group of...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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Cuba will participate in the Summit of the Americas in 2015 according to Panamanian Chancellor

Cuba confirmed its participation in the Summit of the Americas to be held in April in Panama, reported on Friday the Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo, in what would be the first assistance of the island to these continental meetings initiated two decades ago....
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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Ecuador and the EU sign a free trade agreement that will be applied in 2016

The European Union (EU) and Ecuador signed this Friday, December 12 the free trade agreement, whose negotiations concluded in June, with the confidence it can come into force in 2016 and stressing the importance of the community market for the Ecuadorian exports. Through this...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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Court confirms the acquittal of the defendants in the Cofiec case

The national judges Jorge Blum, Merck Benavides and Vicente Robalino confirmed on December 11 the innocence of the four former members of the Cofiec board, accused by the Prosecution of an alleged bank embezzlement by the irregular award of $ 800,000 to Gastón Duzac Argentine...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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Telecomunications companies would pay to the State for exceeding the 30% of participation

According to the report for the second debate of the draft of the Telecommunications Law, companies of this sector will start paying a trimester amount to the State, in case that they reach or exceed 30% of market participation. Private providers that concentrate market according...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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CIA Director defends his work and admits there were unauthorized actions

The Director of the CIA, John Brennan, defended the legality of interrogation methods applied to suspected terrorists after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Brennan gave a speech from the central agency, followed by a press conference to respond to the report conclusions of the...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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