Category

The socialist president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, political heir of the late left-wing leader Hugo Chavez, called this Monday for a meeting of regional authorities in the Government Palace after more than two weeks of opposition protests that have spread to at least 13 of the...

Samsung presented the Galaxy smartphone S5, an upgraded version, but not radically different from the Galaxy S4 of last year. Samsung says that the Galaxy S5 is waterproof and dustproof. The phone screen can be adapted to severe conditions of brightness and shadow. The Galaxy S5...

Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, said that in order to harm his campaign, strangers are filtering more than 1,000 messages from his personal e-mail account and some  members of his family.   Santos said that he asked for an investigation and the appropriate sanction for...

To broaden its base of users, BlackBerry Ltd will make available its tool of BBM messaging to Windows Phone from Microsoft and Nokia X platforms. Likewise the automaker Ford Co plans to build the next generation of Sync platform in the QNX operating system of BlackBerry and...

President Rafael Correa stressed having achieved “wonderful results” in Pichincha and Guayas winning prefectures, but also recognized a setback by losing the Mayorship of Quito. These statements were made after knowing the first  results of the poll surveys  at 17:15....

The black box of the presidential helicopter that crashed last Thursday in the Andean region of the country and caused the deaths of three military officers and injured another one was recovered, reported today the Government.   The Ecuadorian Minister of defence, Maria Fernanda...

The electoral mission of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) will present today  a report on the results of the sectional elections which were held in Ecuador to choose new dignities. The general coordinator of the Unasur mission, Wilfrido Penco, reported that the...

Alianza PAIS (AP) movement, led by President Rafael Correa and in power since 2007, admitted its first defeat at the polls after 9 election victories. In the three largest cities of Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca, the municipalities were lost at the hands right-wing...

Credits, oil exploitation and infrastructure service sales, have marked the economic and cooperative relationship between Ecuador and China since 2007. Various analysts point out these actions will continue in the future if new projects are concreted. In the portfolio of projects...

The rescue of the Russian ship that last December was stranded in Antarctica, with dozens of tourists and scientists on board, cost around 1.6 million dollars (1.2 million euros), local media reported today. The director of the Antarctic Australian Division, Tony Fleming, said...