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Marchs in Guayaquil over Labor Day

To commemorate May first, despite the rain, the union sectors and the Governorate in Guayaquil called for marches, in a display of opinions for and against the current Ecuadorian government. In rejection of the draft Labour Code, which was delivered yesterday to the National...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Carrasco requests support for the new Labor Code

The Minister of Labour Relations, Carlos Marx Carrasco, in order to initiate the legislative process of his proposal for the Organic Labour Code, yesterday delivered it to the President of the Assembly, Gabriela Rivadeneira. The delivery of the project was carried out in the...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Food shortages affects to blue-footed boobies

The Blue-footed booby, emblematic bird of the Galapagos Islands, faces a unexpected drop in its population due to the scarcity of food, according to a scientific study supported by the authorities of the Ecuadorian archipelago.   According to experts, the descent may be directly...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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CNE divests Cléver Jimenez and collaborators from their political rights

On Wednesday afternoon was removed from the Electoral Register the Assemblyman of Pachakutik, Cléver Jiménez Cabrera, the activist Carlos Figueroa Figueroa and the former union leader Fernando Villavicencio Valencia. This action was executed by the plenary of the National...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Negotiations continue to solve strikes on the Panama Canal

After ten days of strike by the Unique National Union of Workers in Construction and Related (Suntracs), which has paralyzed the work of the country including the Panama Canal expansion, has decided to resume bargaining talks. Suntracs, with at least 70,000 members, requires a...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Last consultation on the water law

It is the last phase of the pre-legislative consult on the draft Law on Water Resources and Use and Exploitation of Water. The Assembly will convene on Friday, may 9, 17 organizations of Ecuadorian Afro, indigenous, peasant and peasants; but also to risk and fishermen...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Bunker with alleged oil waste is found

Galo Chiriboga, State General Attorney, announced that the laboratory samples collected in Center Sacha field, in the province of Orellana, will be analysed. Last Wednesday was found a bunker, which was built  about 30 years ago and would contain alleged oil waste. The bunker is...
Posted On 02 May 2014
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Restructuring of the Armed Forces will include applicant’s reduction

President Rafael Correa announced that the restructuring of the Armed Forces shall be done in a technical form and the number of applicants to the military schools will be reduced by a 50% annually. The changes involve a new system to perform military service in six months, an...
Posted On 01 May 2014
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Jimenez denounces supposed possible operative by the Government

They would be painting Special Forces helicopters like police ones to access the community, because they are legally prevented from executing judgments.’ These words were part of the complaint  yesterday made the former Assemblyman Cléver Jiménez (PK), who is protected by...
Posted On 01 May 2014
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599.103 signatures from YASunidos passed the final verification phase

599,103 signatures of the collective YASunidos passed to the final stage of verification of signatures, with which they seek to convene a consultation to avoid exploitation in Yasuní park area. The National Electoral Council (CNE) issued this notice. To convene a referendum...
Posted On 01 May 2014
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