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It’s been four years since the Law of Culture has not returned to be debated in the National Assembly. The hundred ruling party assembly members, a majority in the plenary, have not gotten this law to be approved. The same law that should have been issued in October 2009,...

With the closing of the trade agreement between Ecuador and the European Union (EU), the banana industry hopes that with this, the fruit production increases about 5%. “In the case of bananas, the tariff reduction will begin in 2016 and will conclude in 2020. This will...

The black boxes of the Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali, causing the death of 118 people, including its Spanish crew, arrived today, Monday July 28, in the morning to France, official sources said. “I confirm that the two black boxes of the MD83 aircraf...

The 46th Mercosur Presidential Summit of tomorrow, July 29 in Venezuela, now preceded by a meeting of Foreign Ministers, glimpses partnership plans with other blocks, according to previous declarations of its protagonists. “It will be a very inclusive meeting,” said...

During Sunday night the Security Council of the United Nations passed a unanimous statement claiming an “immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. The 15 member countries of the Council met at the UN headquarters on an emergency matter and...

The change of gas stoves by electric will start this August 1st nationwide. The Government encourages the replacement of three million stoves, because it seeks to save $800 million per year spent on the gas subsidy. In Ecuadorian households 92% of liquefied petroleum gas is...

Through a statement, the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess for its Spanish acronym) announced this week that it will open a new Operations Centre in the largest headquarters in Guayaquil. According to the company, the opening of new facilities corresponds...

The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (EPL for its Spanish acronym) announced its interest in joining the peace process of the Colombian Government, after assuring that they agree with several proposals discussed in Havana with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted a request from the UN to extend for another 24 hours the humanitarian truce, which was in force in Gaza today, government sources quoted by major local media. Netanyahu, who on Saturday met in Tel Aviv with members of his...

The Commission on Rights of Workers and Social Security declared itself in permanent session to work on the report for the first debate of the draft law regulating Supplemental Previsional Unemployment Funds of the country. The members of the commission announced the decision in...