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The Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, held on November 21 an official visit to Ecuador in order to strengthen bilateral relations. “I was looking forward a long time ago to come to Ecuador to strengthen the relations,” Cartes said in joint statements with the...

The Vice Chancellor of Ecuador, Leonardo Arízaga, rejected this November 17 statements made by the US ambassador in Quito, Adam Namm, who criticized the police treatment to protester students in the country. Arízaga said that this statements “are not conducive to a positive...

It has already been five days without eating for the parents of Mejia School who claim reinstatement for all 68 students. The Ministry of Education says there are 26 resolutions, other reports are expected. On the disciplinary proceedings, the Education Minister Augusto Espinosa,...

Since last Friday exassemblyman of Sociedad Patriotica Galo Lara, serves his sentence of ten years in prison after being accused of involvement in a triple murder in 2011. Lara arrived in the country at 17:00 from Panama, where he remained for at least fourteen months. He was an...

On next December 5 the presidents of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur for its Spanish acronym) will meet in Quito to inaugurate the headquarters of the organization, said Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño on last Friday. Established in 2011, the block of 12 countries...

The 2015 budget does not contemplate new tax revenues, although the regime admitted that it works on two new taxes andincreasing the Special Consumption Tax (ICE for its Spanish acronym) for luxury vehicles. The Minister of Finance, Fausto Herrera, explained that the 2015...

Later this year the number of scholarship recipients to study for master’s, doctoral and medical specialties abroad, will be known. A total of 1,820 candidates were summoned by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (Senescyt for its Spanish...

During the third national convention of the Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT) conducted last Saturday in Guayaquil, nearly 800 representatives of workers and social organizations, defended the existence of a new Labour Code and rejected the claim of the government of making...

A new TV spot that denounces pollution from Chevron was filed by President Correa during the nation-wide broadcast number 395, held at La Florida sector, Quito. The video, which has English and Spanish version, shows the words contamination, horror, ecocide, greed, mean, insult...

During the discussion with media at Quito, President Rafael Correa gave a deadline of January 2015 for the mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, to assume jurisdiction of transit, otherwise he will “probably” start charging the administration of 1,300 transit guards. The...