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The Production Code, released in 2010, will be modified. Authorities and entrepreneurs agree that the legislation is not fulfilling all the objectives for which it was created. The impetus for private investment is an example.  Next week, industries representatives will hold a...

On next Saturday May 17 the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie for its Spanish acronym) shall designate from among three candidates, its new president, replacing the current leader, Humberto Cholango. The candidates are: Olindo Nastacuaz of the Conaice...

The President, Vice President and Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights received Ledy Zúñiga, Minister of Justice, and Attorney Diego Garcia in order to report on the situation of Cléver Jiménez, Fernando Villavicencio and Carlos Figueroa. “The leadership...

Mauricio Rodas, elected Mayor of Quito, received the investiture by the President of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Domingo Paredes. The ceremony was held yesterday at the Sucre Theater.  In his speech, the Mayor announced that tomorrow, at the first session of the Council...

Immersed in grief, outrage and anger, a group of demonstrators protested violently against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish town of Soma, where at least 238 miners died in an explosion at the mining site of Soma Holding, Turkey’s largest...

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Juan Francisco Ballen, reported yesterday that Ecuador requested additional 15 days from the deadline to respond to a letter from the General Secretariat of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), regarding the investigation that the agency...

After the president Rafael Correa stated the measure that allowed real estate companies and users to do legal proceedings previous obtaining a mortgage credit through the Bank of IESS (Biess), questions on how would the values would be financed appeared.  Home sellers said that...

Patricio Baca Mancheno is now in charge of the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE), after that Catalina Castro Llerena  resigned for personal matters last Thursday, according to a letter. That same day, there was a plenary session to take a resolution.  The Vice Presidency is...

On Wednesday, the elected mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, took up his fourth consecutive term in the municipality of the city and noted that “a mayor is not simply an individual building works, is the interpreter of the feelings and thoughts of the people.” During...

Russia today demanded the immediate implementation of the OSCE plan for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, which is in the end of the Kiev offensive in pro-Russian regions. “We consider of an exceptional importance to put into practice the road map” of the...