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This week, the Government proposed the draft Monetary and Financial Organic Code to the National Assembly. This seeks to reorder the monetary systems as value and insurance regimes of the country. According to the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Policy, the Executive will...

This Thursday Ecuador and the United Nations signed the “Framework Cooperation of the United Nations Development Programme” for the period 2015-2018 to support the government’s National Plan for Good Living. During the subscription, the Resident Coordinator of...

Last Wednesday through a statement, the Ministry of Public Health reported that in Ecuador there are no new recorded cases of the rare fever called chikungunya. The disease causes similar symptoms to those of dengue: fever, severe joint pain, headaches, nausea, fatigue and rash;...

After the temporary suspension of Resolution 1695 by the General Secretariat of the Andean Community last June 24, Ecuadorian entrepreneurs see as good the deadline of 15 working days the Andean Community (CAN for its Spanish acronym) gave to the country to stop controlling...

On Thursday, Foreign Minister of Argentina Hector Timerman resubmits the “Malvinas Issue” before the Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations, in New York. Timerman confirms the full disposal of Argentina to find a “peaceful solution to the sovereignty...

According to Galo Chiriboga, Attorney General, the acquitted failure of Mery Zamora, Former President of the UNE, has “constitutional crimes” in the resolution of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice (CNJ). In the judgment of the crime she was ...

Uruguay expects to receive in September the first 40 Syrian refugees , from a total of 120 who would arrive to the South American country due to the proposal of President Jose Mujica to host Syrian refugee children. To address the issue, the National Director of Human Rights,...

José Miguel Vivanco, Americas Director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, sent a letter to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay requesting them to urge the government of Nicolas Maduro t...

The “amendment” to the transitional provision of the Constitution, which refers to the time to integrate the regions, adds to the 17 articles changes that Assemblymen of Alianza PAÍS (AP) will submitt as draft amendments to the Constitutional Court (CC) next Thursday....

The Anconcito parish will have its new fishing harbor, this work would benefit about 1,500 fishermen. Artisans met Sunday morning with Julio Alvarez, Manager of Fisheries Infrastructures of Ecuador – Public Enterprise (IPE-EP), for details on how to operate and provide...