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The Superintendency of Banks and Insurance (SBS for its Spanish acronym) will implement a mechanism for those contributors who want to withdraw their resources from pre visional funds can do it immediately. This was agreed during the meeting held by President Rafael Correa with...

At a meeting on August 25, the President of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym), Domingo Paredes, and the Prefect of Guayas, Jimmy Jairala, met in Guayaquil and analyzed the possibility of performing a popular consultation as a mechanism to resolve the...

The representatives of the Ecuadorian Entrepreneurial Committee (EEC) submitted on August 20 a letter to the Constitutional Court to be interested parties (Amicus Curiae) in the process of constitutional amendments presented by the National Assembly. Henry Kronfle, President of...

The entrance to the continental protected areas is no longer exclusive to the naturalists. The Ministry of Environment (MAE for its Spanish acronym) decided to allow access to national guides to certain areas of 12 protected zones in Ecuador. This seeks to promote tourism and to...

A measurement of the Research Directorate of the Ministry of Tourism reveals that between January and August 24, 2014 entered to Ecuador 1’009.665 tourists, representing an increase of 14% in relation with the same period of last year. Only in the first 24 days of this...

Four monkeys received today an experimental vaccine against Ebola, developed by the Canadian pharmaceutical Immunovaccine, and survived after being exposed to a lethal dose of the virus. Immunovaccine added that two monkeys which were exposed to Ebola but not did not receive the...

A former executive of a party that does not militate for two years in his organization may be nominated to be a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). The call to renovate two delegationships was posted on August 23, by the Council of Citizen...

The contract of Specific Services of the Canadian oil company Ivanhoe for exploration and exploitation of Pungarayacu field will be terminated in Ecuador after more than five years of work in block 20. The announcement was made by Petroamazonas Manager, Oswaldo Madrid, in an...

The father of the African-American of 18 years old who died after being shot by a white police in Ferguson, urged on Sunday, August 24, to save a “day of silence” while his son is buried on Monday. “Tomorrow all I want is peace,” said Mr. Michael Brown to...

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said that the Ukrainian government will invest about three billion dollars to rearm its military and deal with the “threats” to their sovereignty, referring to the fighting it lives in the east of the country against...