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Ecuadornews: From old shoes, plastics, toys that went out of style, to (sometimes) human corpses and fetuses are collected along the Salado estuary. An arm of the sea that,moreover, hosts aquatic animal and plant life. According to estimations of Visolit, company in charge of...

Ecuadornews: The scientific news of the week has a protagonist close to Ecuador: George, the Solitaire. An international team of scientists has managed to sequence their entire genome from blood samples taken in 2010. The results, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, open a...

Ecuadornews: The Ecuadorian prosecutor, Iñigo Salvador, has insisted today that the Special Monitoring Team (ESE), created to accompany the investigation of the kid nappingand murder of a journalistic team on the border with Colombia, did not take advantage of “the time it...

Ecuadornews: The Legislative Commission of Collective Rights approved this Monday the report for the second debate of the reforms to the Organic Law of Communication (LOC), andat the last minute it excluded the Office of the Ombudsman the attribution to assume the rights and...

Ecuadornews: Affected by rumors of a financial rescue and fears of a slowdown in 2019, the Quito merchants receive Christmas with the fear of a “Grinch” that will turn off their main income season of the year. Although some establishments adorned their shop windows...

Ecuadornews: The Ministry of Economy and Finance reported on Monday that it sent to the National Assembly the budget pro forma for 2019, with 17 observations made by Parliament. There is considered a price of a barrel of oil at 50.05 dollars,compared to the $ 58.29 that were...

Ecuadornews: The National Assembly has approved the resignation of María Alejandra Vicuña to the Vice Presidency of the Republic, with 94 votes in favor, none against, and no abstention or blank vote. It will be the Assembly that elects the new Vice President of the Republic...

Ecuadornews: The plenary session of the National Assembly accepted on Thursday morning the resignation presented by María Alejandra Vicuña to the position of vice president, to defend herself against accusations that linked her to theso-called “Diezmos case” By unanimity of 94...

Ecuadornews: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received yesterday (Thursday,December 6, 2018) in a public hearing the relatives of Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas and Efraín Segarra, murdered by FARC dissidents on the border between Ecuador and Colombia. In this meeting,...

Ecuadornews: It took no more than a quarter of an hour for the National Assembly to dispatch the Vice President of the Republic. Enough time to read the text of her resignation (which ostensibly disregarded all), move their acceptance and count the votes. The proponent of the...