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Yesterday, the Cantonal Council of Guayaquil, approved in first debate, two clarifications to the Ordinance that sets the rate for the dredging of `Los Goles´.   Mayor Jaime Nebot said that as the municipality has not called the contest to find the company that will remov...

Following the change of the energy matrix proposed by the Government, the Ecuadorian business sector invested more capital while the number of companies that perform some kind of activity, falls. From January to March, the investment was $540 million, 85% more than the same...

Facebook has created on today a new tool designed especially for journalists, as part of a broader effort to become the place par excellence where they meet to discuss its 1000 million users. Under the name of FB Newswire, the tool is designed to help journalists to share and...

Changing 110 volt meters by 220, is one of the difficulties presented to support the Government´s plan to replace the gas cookers for cookers that operate with electricity, in order to abolish the subsidy of this resource.   José Felipe Borja, President of the College of...

The proposed referendum project, which is being supported by the environmental group Frente de Defensa Total de la Amazonia is at risk of falling after the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) revealed that 41 % of the forms provided by this group did not meet...

In an interview with the Barcelona newspaper `La Vanguardia´ and published this Thursday, President Rafael Correa spoke about the exploitation of the Yasuni Amazonian reserve and stated that `the country has no other way´ and `we need the money to overcome poverty ´. Correa said...

According to Vice President of the Federation of Physicians, Victor Alvarez, this Thursday a mobilization will be held from hospitals Eugenio Espejo and Carlos Andrade Marín, to the Council of the Judiciary, because of Article 146 of the Integral Crime Organic Code (COIP for its...

This was revealed this morning by the National Secretary of Planning and Development, Pabel Muñoz, in an interview on Ecuavisa . Muñoz says the Superintendency of Land and Soil, whose creation is included in the draft law of Land Use and Management, could punish mayors as part of...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) stressed its concern about the situation of freedom of expression in Ecuador and focused on `severe restriction´ arising from the Communications Law. `The articles of the law establish some important principles for exercising...

On last Wednesday, among other topics, Commerce Minister Francisco Rivadeneira and Tanya Van Gool, Ambassador of Colombia in Ecuador, raised the need for a temporary extension of the system of tariff preferences under the GSP Plus (for Ecuador) until the trade agreement...