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The Catalan President, Artur Mas, is expected to sign on Saturday the decreed by which he will convene the independence referendum of Catalonia next November 9th, Spanish media reported. Mas will sign the decree in the Palau de la Generalitat de Barcelona (seat of the Barcelona...

A report of the First Instance Commission on Resolution of the Superintendence of Control of Market Power (SCPM for its Spanish acronym) notes that Conecel, which operates under the Claro brand, could be penalized for the second time. The Commission considers it should b...

The General Secretary of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, suggested this September 25 the creation of an international body of health professionals, or “white coats,” whostay in as needed to combat the Ebola outbreak in Africa Western. “We should consider if the world needs...

Members of the banking sector want to meet with Patricio Rivera, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policy, who shall chair the Monetary and Financial Board, the body that regulates the Ecuadorian economy. César Robalino, President of the Association of Private Banks of Ecuador...

The National Customs Service of Ecuador (Senae for its Spanish acronym) denied on Tuesday September 23 that the activities performed during an operation against smuggling at the northern border of Ecuador caused the death of Milton Ch., 36. The incident occurred when the staff of...

The Council for the Regulation and Development of Information and Communication (Cordicom for its Spanish acronym) set a seventy-day deadline for that the television and radio appropriate their programming schedule according to a new regulation issued it on Friday, September 19....

One of the main concerns of the United States (USA) within the bilateral trade relations with Ecuador are the control measures on imports from the country adopted on December 2013. This was stated on September, 23 by the Economic and Business Adviser of the USA, Nicole Weber,...

The Nigerian army affirmed for the first time on Wednesday that the leader of the Islamist armed group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, is dead without clarifying when or where he died. The military also affirmed they had recently killed another Islamist leader who was posing as...

The price of a barrel of oil has a sustained worldwide decline since last June. Ecuador, being an oil producing country, should take into account the development and analysis of the 2015 budget that the Ministry of Finance plans to submit to the Assembly on October 31. According...

This September 23, the Plenary of the Constitutional Court (CC) presented the reasons why they rejected the arguments presented by the three lawsuits of unconstitutionality against the Organic Communications Law (LOC for its Spanish acronym). “It was not a simple topic to...