FAO reports drop in global food prices

Due to the decrease  in the cost of sugar, vegetable oils and grains, the Organization of the United Nations for Food and Agriculture (FAO for its spanish  acronym) reported this Thursday that global food prices fell in January . The FAO index had an average of 203,4 points in...
Posted On 06 Feb 2014
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CNE prepares logistical plan for natural risks

Due to the situation of areas considered as “critical”, affected by the heavy rains and the effects of the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano, the National Electoral Council (CNE) evaluated in cooperation with the Secretariat of Risk various contingency plans. Four...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Janet Yellen presto sworn in as new President of the FED

Through a press release, the Central Bank of the United States announced Janet Yellen as the new President the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed). Yellen, 67, who assume the occupation of Ben Bernanke, was sworn in during a ceremony in the headquarters of the Fed in Washington before the...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Offers to exploit oil fields were presented

The first filter before getting a contract with the State to explore and exploit oil fields, located in the southeast of the country, was passed by the oil companies Repsol (Spain), Andes Petroleum (China) and international partners of the public company Petroamazonas. Andres...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Galapagos considered the best place to visit in the world

The web site www.10best.com place the Galapagos Islands in number one in the ranking of “The best places to see before you die”. The international competition, sponsored by the newspaper USA Today, brings together the most recognized places in the world. This web site...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Three waitresses receive generous gratuity of $5,000 at a restaurant in Illinois

Amy Sabani, 25 years; Sarah Seckinger and Amber Kariolich, 23, waitresses of the family restaurant Boone County in Caledon, could not believe that a woman had given a cheque of $5,000 for each. The owner of the restaurant, Matt Nebiu, said that business was loose on Saturday when...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Information of peace negotiators with the FARC would have been intercepted

President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the investigation of an  alleged illegal wiretapping of some of the government negotiators in the peace talks with the FARC by military personnel. The result of this investigation determined the separation of two senior officers responsible...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Russia receives the Olympic flame

Two days before the opening of the XXII Olympic Winter Games, the Olympic flame arrived this Wednesday to the Russian city of Sochi, after its journey of nearly 65,000 kilometres and 120 days. Sergey Bubka Ukrainian pole vaulter, who this year was one of the candidates to head...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Fernando Cordero didn’t know about purchase of Condorito magazine

On November 20 of last year, the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) granted, by a special scheme, the acquisition of two million copies of the magazine Condorito to Vanipubli s.a. / editorial Televisa Ecuador. In accordance with the public procurement portal, the...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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Beckham will have a football team in Miami

Former England soccer player David Beckham exercised his option to buy an MLS team in Miami. Don Garber, MLS commissioner this Wednesday in a press conference in the presence of Beckham and Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez, announced this. When funding is obtained and terrain to build...
Posted On 05 Feb 2014
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