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The “United” Movement, an organization composed of 15 political parties, was officially launched on the night of September 18 in the Theater of the Culture House in Quito. This project was created as a unit of the progressive, democratic and revolutionary forces. In...

The Catalan Parliament approved on Friday by a large majority a law that allows to convene a sovereign consultation, which is scheduled for November 9. The  consultations law was passed by 106 votes, 78% of the regional Chamber, coming from the largest Catalan nationalist and...

Guayas will be one of the five provinces that will have electronic machines for the general elections scheduled for 2017. It was announced on September 18 by the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). This voting system will be implemented with the...

The International Council of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), which met this week in London, appointed Luis Valverde, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador, as Vice President of the World Economic Committee for the period 2014-2015. The functions of Valverde will...

Thousands of tourists were still waiting on September 18 to be evacuated from the peninsula of Baja California, in northwestern Mexico, devastated by Hurricane Odile, as the locals clamored desperately for water, electricity and security after the sack of several supermarkets....

About 400 employees of the telephone companies, Claro and Movistar, marched on Wednesday September 17 from the offices of Telefónica Movistar, to the Ministry of Telecommunications at 13:00. Private employees showed posters and slogans such as: “It’s just air,...

During the week of  September 15, documents have been distributed between military and police ranks on which the Ministry of Defense reports about an alleged merger of Social Security Institutes of the Armed Forces (ISSFA for its Spanish acronym) and the National Police (ISSPOL...

The Italian oil company ENI announced on September 18 the discovery of a major oil field in Oglan, Ecuador. From which they expect to produce up to 300 million barrels. The well, located 260 kilometers from Quito, could produce up to 2,000 barrels a day, according to estimates by...

The Manager of the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym), Mateo Villalba, performed on August 17 a payment of $ 3 with electronic money to an official of the same agency. This was the first electronic currency transaction. The system was presented at th...

Two men and a woman were arrested on early Thursday, September 18, as suspects of being involved in bomb attacks occurred in the Santiago metro, according to the Chilean police. The three suspects were transferred to a police station in the commune of Ñuñoa, in the East of...