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Analyst Alberto Acosta Burneo claimed that the current economic situation is complicated, “the recession is already installed in the country, we have two consecutive quarters of contraction, the IMF’s perspective is that the economy contracts at less than 0.6% this...

Ecuador is not Switzerland, but they again share the ranking. The European country is the first in the list that measures the Global Competitiveness Index and Ecuador ranks 76 out of a total of 140 countries. This year, the country has reappeared in the report prepared by the...

Imports from Ecuador to Spain have added 49.9 million euros ($ 56.2 million) in July, representing a decrease of 24,6% compared to July 2014, announced the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in a report. The document also indicates that Spanish exports to Ecuador stood at...

Cases of police officers who allegedy have been seduced by drug trafficking networks are increasing. The latest was resported yesterday in Guayaquil. During an operation two agents in active service were arrested for alleged links with drug shipping abroad. The head of the...

A shipment of 27 jute bags, inside which 505 packages with 981 200 grams of marijuana were found, was seized in a drug operation yesterday in the San Mateo parish. Police reported that the cargo was being transported on a truck from the Borbon village in the north of Esmeraldas,...

Alberto Acosta, former president of the Constituent Assembly, in an interview with Ecuavisa said that in the Constitution of Montecristi “no romanticisms nor decisions of Alberto Acosta or Rafael Correa” were included, he said that the important thing is that...

      The former lawmaker Enrique Herreria, director of the Observatory of Rights and Justice, when commenting on the powers of the Comptroller General, said that the country has established a regulatory structure -organic too- which guarantees impunity for those...

For next Wednesday, September 16 a new demonstration called by social, trade union and indigenous organizations against government policies is being prepared. They also evaluate different measures to be implemented in October and November in order to prevent the enacment of the...

By: MARTIN PALLARES QUITO, Ecuador — There is a strange connection between volcanoes and political crises in Ecuador: They seem to erupt together. According to Pedro Cieza de León, who chronicled the Spanish conquistadors’ arrival in the Incan Empire, when Pedro de Alvarado...

The devaluation of the ruble, the Russian currency, has led the “spot” banana box (without contract between the producer and exporter) to $ 3.50. According to exporters, that has been one of the causes for the Ecuadorian producer to receive less than the stipulated in...