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Last Friday the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS for its Spanish acronym) published a notice in the Socio Empleo website, for general practitioners and specialists to submit their resumes. Until next Thursday whoever wants to apply for the positions must meet three...

The attacks perpetrated this weekend by military coup participants and armed militias against Benghazi, Libya’s second city and the headquarters of the Libyan Parliament in Tripoli, have increased the political bewilderment and insecurity in the country. The latest...

Last Sunday, the Venezuelan opposition alliance met with the three foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur for its Spanish acronym) appointed for the case, and explained them why they decided to suspend dialogues with the government of Nicolas Maduro, and...

The work activity in the mining camp in El Panqui, Zamora, was stopped by 150 workers and consequently the Viewpoint project stopped. The Chinese company Ecuacorriente (ECSA) reported the incident last Saturday night .  The Viewpoint project is a large scale work in Ecuador and...

Switzerland rejected yesterday in a referendum the establishment of a unique minimum wage equivalent to USD 4 500, which would have been the highest in the world. According to official results, 76.3% of voters rejected the establishment of the minimum wage of 22 Swiss Francs per...

Last Sunday a week away for the Colombians to elect their new president among five candidates, the campaign ended in the middle of a new peace agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP for its Spanish acronym) and the Government of...

The Comptroller General’s Office keeps an eye on the operation of the computer system through which the Civil Registration issues the identification cards and other public documents. The organization analyzed by a special exam the legal and technological aspects of the...

The Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess) has about 10,000 processes of mortgage loans from 2013 and other 3 000 in process. The amount subtracts liquidity to the construction sector, whose representatives expressed their unpleasantness to the government...

President Rafael Correa said it was a “commitment of all America” to seek an output to the sea of Bolivia and Paraguay. But he explained that his thesis had been “misrepresented.”  “They have said I want Chile to give access to the sea to these...

While authorities held in Kharkiv a second round table of national unity, resistance in Ukraine grew yesterday with renewed fighting and violent incidents in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. The pro-Russian bulwark of Slaviansk, attacked by Ukrainian troops since late April,...