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According to a study of National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC for its Spanish acronym) in the last six years (2007-2013), Ecuador has received tourists mostly from Colombia, USA and Peru. Cali, followed by Bogota, are the cities where Colombians come from...

Today Russia confirmed having received the payment of a first tranche of gas debts accumulated by Ukraine, so Moscow will void its threat to close the gas tap this Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Energy in Moscow, the Ukrainian company Naftogaz transferred to Russia an...

Tomorrow at 09h30 the footbridge that links the Santay island with Guayaquil will opened to the public. With this access, tourists can walk or bike to the island, the ecovillage and the `cocodrilera.´ The Governor of Guayas, Rolando Panchana, ratified the pre-opening during a...

The next 9 and June 28th will start the process of student enrollment for fiscal educational instituttions of regime Sierra cycle-Amazon. The entity responsible for this recruitment will be the Ministry of Education.  Moreover, it was clarified that this stage it should be...

Ecuador register 91% in firearm homicides, the highest percentage among Latin American countries, according to the Regional Human Development Report 2013-2014 titled ‘Citizen Security with a Human Face’.  This report of the United Nations Development Programme (PNUD...

From next week Ecuador will seize the general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Asuncion, Paraguay, to insist on reforms to the Inter-American System on Human Rights (ISHR). Ecuador will also add support for the proposition to change the base headquarters...

Last Saturday during his nation-wide broadcast, the Ecuadorian president , Rafael Correa , said the opportunity to stand for reelection for a fourth term in 2017, will be a last resort that will depend on the circumstances of the moment and the degree of the “conservative...

Last Thursday, the national leadership of the ruling movement Alianza PAIS (AP) adopted a Code of Ethics, as its executive secretary, Doris Soliz, said it is not focused on sanctions but on principles, values ​​and ethics. AP had “an ethical norm, today we have given a more...

On Friday the president’s defense responded with a motion for clarification to the twelve-year sentence of imprisonment imposed by the judge of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym) Ximena Vintimilla, for the alleged crime of...

Since that during 2014 the private universities can increase their tariffs by up to 2.7%, the Higher Education Council (CES for its Spanish acronym) will take time to approve the rules regulating tariffs. The Senescyt’s initiative of regulating costs has aroused intense debate in...