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In Madrid, the created Platform for Mortgage Affected immigrants living in Spain would prevent them to loose their homes and to prolong the payments for the creditor banks. According to the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami for its Spanish acronym), around 15,000...

Two years ahead of schedule, Banco Pichincha will profit from its operations in Spain. It operates since 2010 in that country as a commercial bank. Jorge Marchan Riera, manager of Pichincha in Spain, told The New York Times, its assets doubled last year from 27 million to 63...

Otavalo musician Juan Leonardo Santillán Rojas, better known as Leo Rojas, won first place in “Das Supertalent 2011” (the German super talent), playing “The lonely shepherd” by Gheorghe Zamfirs.Leo, 27, faced nine other finalists, top rated by viewers. But...

Around 140.000 Ecuadorians live in Italy, 123.000 are residents with legal documents in that European country. They are being affected by the economic crisis, salaries do not cover their debts and there is a high unemployment rate. Italy is the third largest economy in the...

The White House announced today the completion of a ‘summit’ with leaders, entrepreneurs and Hispanic officials at the University of California, Riverside, in times of declining popularity of Barack Obama among Latinos. The ‘summit’, which will gather...

Alabama launched an aggressive illegal immigration law on Thursday, the toughest of its kind in the United States, it criminalizes undocumented immigrants and authorizes schools to verify the immigration status of their students when they enroll.Most of this law, known as HB 56,...

Unemployment in Spain affects about 100,000 Ecuadorians, two thirds of whom does not receive any public subsidy, said yesterday in Madrid, the head of the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami for its Spanish acronym) in Ecuador, Beatriz Tola. The official, who performed her...

Beatriz Tola, representative of the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami), arrived this Saturday in Spain in order to meet Ecuadorian citizens of Madrid, Barcelona and Murcia, where 1,500 compatriots were affected by earthquakes last May. As indicated by the Embassy of...

Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois will sign a bill that will provide facilities for immigrants who cannot live in the United States to apply for college scholarships and access to private savings programs for universities in this state. This initiative requires from students to...

Spain and Ecuador began an agreement allowing emigrants to retire in any of the two countries and recognizes the contributions made in the past, said yesterday the president of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), Ramiro Gonzalez. The official sai...