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12 disabled people receive footwashing from Papa Francisco

The Pope Francis met this Holy Thursday with the foot washing ritual to twelve disabled people, including a Libyan Muslim boy in a ceremony at a church in a suburb of Rome. The Pontiff, who had great difficulty to kneel down and getting up from the white cushion he was resting...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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CTE implements agents on bicycles for holiday traffic control

Bicycle agents are the new addition prepared by Authorities of the Transit Commission of Ecuador (CTE for its Spanish acronym) in order to prevent further damage in the bicycle lane of the Guayaquil-Salinas Highway caused on last Carnival holiday. Michelle Doumet, director of...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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Lasso joins to critics of the Law of Land Use

The leader of the political movement Creating Opportunities (CREO), Guillermo Lasso, questioned the creation of a Regulatory Board of Territory  Land; In addition, he considered that the preliminary draft of the Zoning Law and Land Use is “one more piece of the legal...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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Pachamama Foundation presented a new legal resource

The non governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to suffer the consequences of Executive Decree No. 16, which established new requirements and controls for their activities. The Foundation Pachamama – whose registration was cancelled by a resolution of the Ministry of...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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EPI and Senescyt sign an agreement

More than $100 million will be invested by the Government  to equip laboratories and workshops of technical and technological institutes within the change of the productive matrix project. To identify the necessary goods to those educational institutions that will have subjects...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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Agreements between government and Venezuelan opposition are highlighted by Patino

Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, stressed yesterday the number of agreements reached “in just three hours of conversation” between the Government of Venezuela and the Democratic Unity Table (MUD), that carry out talks to resolve the political crisis...
Posted On 17 Apr 2014
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Easter Holidays will raise internal tourism

The Easter Holidays are an opportunity to boost domestic tourism which, in just three days, promises to mobilize a million of nationals. Thus calculated the Hotel Federation of the country based on last years figures. In that sense, the numbers are optimistic and upward.   Unlike...
Posted On 16 Apr 2014
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National Assembly will treat precautionary measures on behalf Jimenez

In order to treat a draft resolution backing the refusal of the Government regarding the precautionary measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in favor of Assemblyman Cléver Jiménez, Gabriela Rivadeneira, President of the Assembly summoned a...
Posted On 16 Apr 2014
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Political groups complain over “accusations” in expenses

Representatives of four political organizations described as “political persecution” the preliminary report with evidence of criminal liability that the Comptroller sent the prosecutor about the alleged irregular use of the Permanent Party Fund, provided by the...
Posted On 16 Apr 2014
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Government wants to strengthen the staff of the National University of Education

The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa; the Minister of Education, Augusto Espinosa, and other officials toured the facilities of the National University of Education (UNAE) yesterday and offered to increase the number of students and researchers, in order to complete its...
Posted On 16 Apr 2014
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