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The first detainee, Wilson Cevallos, is responsible for the fire in the Atacazo Park, south of Quito, while the other three are suspects of lighting up the fire in the Pomasqui sector, north of the capital. The suspects are currently under custody, which was handed down by the...

The Transit Commission of Ecuador (CTE for its Spanish acronym) will begin, this Monday September 17, controls to penalize drivers traveling over the speed limit in urban areas of Guayaquil. The penalty consists in three days of prison, a fine of $ 292.10 and 10 points less on...

QUITO, Ecuador Interior Minister, Jose Serrano, said the first call received yesterday led to the arrest of three suspects in flagrante delicto, with gives a total of six suspects arrested so far. “We ratify as Government that we will implement all the necessary operatives...

QUITO, Ecuador Officers from the Metropolitan Police of Quito, who were suffocating a fire in the Bellavista neighborhood, observed two people throwing Molotov cocktails at the Metropolitan Park trees. “They fled on a motorcycle after they made the fire,” expressed...

At 13 days from the beginning of the forest fires in Ecuador, the National Secretary of Risk, Maria Pilar Cornejo, reported that the provinces of Pichincha, Imbabura, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cañar, Azuay, Loja and El Oro are on orange alert from now. The Interior Minister, Jose...

The mayor of Quito, Augusto Barrera says that every day 25 to 30 wildfires occur, which are man-made 99% of the time. According to the mayor, the heavy fire yesterday in Pasochoa, southeast of Quito, was given due the people burning their terrains thinking that is going to...

QUITO, Ecuador The National Federation of Bakers (Fenapan for its Spanish acronym) today gave a warning about an  imminent increase in the price of common bread. Fenapan president, Pedro Miranda, said the institution’s  aspiration is that the price of common bread rises from $...

Wildfires supposedly extinct are being reactivated in the Chilla Canton, of el Oro province, and in the Pasochoa Ecological Reserve, southeast of the city of Quito. Right now, members of the affected communities, firefighters, and military members, are fighting the flames. The...

Yesterday, the candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Alberto Acosta, was the main figure of the concentration organized by the Plurinationality Leaders of the Left in the Plaza San Francisco (downtown Guayaquil), due to collect signatures for Pachakutik (PK) and...

The ten straight days of wildfires in Ecuador have caused serious damage to the ecosystem of el Oro province. More than a thousand hectares of forests and hundreds of animals have been destroyed by the nearly 2,000 fires. In the mountains of the Chilla canton in el Oro province,...