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Last Thursday during the day’s session in the Plenary of the National Assembly, Assemblywoman of Alianza PAIS (AP), Soledad Buendia, who is also coordinator of the ruling bloc, proposed a constitutional amendment to Articles 114 and 144 so that elected officials can be...

Yesterday, the Reform that allows companies to place alerts on fat, salt and sugar contents in the back of food products packages, was published in the Official Gazette.  Last November, The Ministry of Health issued a regulation for the food and beverage industry to put labels...

Yesterday, the Girón-Pasaje road was full of peasants from various parts of Azuay. They walked more than eight kilometres with flags and posters in a protest against mining and in favour of agricultural production. The objective was to resist change.  “With the Constitution...

The proposal of the Higher Education Council (CES for its spanish acronym), which seeks to regulate the collection of university fees, tuition and other items, will be analyzed and reviewed along with the Ecuadorian Corporation for Private Universities (CEUPA). The standard...

Jaime Nebot , Mayor of Guayaquil , said that the Municipality will not charge a fee for the port dredging of Los Goles rock. This, based on the argument that the Port Authority of Guayaquil (APG) seeks to avoid the collection of a municipal fee. Last April 30, through a letter,...

This Thursday, two days after martial law was declared in the country, the Thai army chief, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, announced that with a coup he will take over the government in order to restore order to the country after months of political instability. “For the...

United States has sent about eighty soldiers to Chad, an ally of Washington in Africa, to help locate and rescue the 200 girls kidnapped last month in Nigeria by Islamist group Boko Haram. In a letter to the head of the House of Representatives, John Boehner speaker, the U.S....

The Acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov, reported this Thursday the death of at least 14 soldiers in combats during two attacks registered in the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, both self-proclaimed independent Kiev. Thirteen of the fourteen casualties occurred near...

To the 16 real estate companies that made agreements last Tuesday with the Bank of IESS ( Biess ) in Quito, joined companies fromGuayaquil, Durán, Portoviejo and Manta. These new companies will take care of the legal formalities of mortgage loans,indicated yesterday Eduardo...

According to the testimony of Rafael Revert, a Spanish engineer who worked with the cyber pirate Andres Sepulveda in the election campaign of Colombian presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the “hacker” had access to confidential information from six Latin...