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Inter-institutional Committee will regulate the country’s aquaculture and fishing sector

Ecuadornews: Within a period not exceeding 60 days, the Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries will be transformed into a Technical Secretariat, which will be under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment. Guilds criticize the government’s measure. Decree...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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The reduction of 99% interest and fines in the IESS expires in 60 days

Ecuadornews: Until September 20, the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) raised $ 11 million for the reduction of interest, fines and surcharges, part of the Productive Development Law in force since August 21. Carlos Vallejo, general director of the IESS, highlighted...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Attorney’s office, in the focus of millionaire foreign demands

Ecuadornews: Although the arbitration award of August 30 in favor of the oil company Chevron, which obliges the State to pay a compensation not yet determined, put the PRD in a bind, in its Directorate of International Affairs still awaits, in addition, another eight arbitration...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Agreement defines export of rice

Ecuadornews: The general manager of the National Storage Unit (UNA EP), Rodrigo Solano, the deputy minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Alexandra Peralta and representatives of the Guayas and Los Ríos rice farms agreed, on Thursday, to export 27,000 tons of paddy or paddy rice....
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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President Lenin Moreno participates in summit in honor of Mandela

Ecuadornews: President Lenin Moreno is already in New York (United States) to participate in the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). According to the scheduled agenda, this Monday, September 24, will offer a speech at the Peace Summit: Nelson Mandela. After that, there...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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James Craig: ‘Chevron will claim Ecuador for damages amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars’

Ecuadornews: James Craig is a spokesman for the US oil company Chevron and argues that if the plaintiffs succeed in executing the Lago Agrio ruling in any country, Ecuador must compensate Chevron. Does the ruling of the Arbitral Tribunal of The Hague includes all the issues that...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Refinery contracts for more than $ 1.300 million, to sanitation

Ecuadornews: A team of specialists in various branches of engineering, lawyers and experts in public procurement will submit to a rigorous review and remediation more than 40 contracts that Petroecuador signed for the rehabilitation of the Esmeraldas refinery, for an amount that...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Correa and Ponce have been linked to case 30S

Ecuadornews: About thirty elements allowed the prosecutor Fabián Salazar to link former President Rafael Correa and his former defense minister, Javier Ponce, to the investigation into the murder of Froilán Jiménez, which occurred in 30S. The command of the Intervention and...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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The presidential rescue was revived eight years after the police uprising

Ecuadornews: On Wednesday night the facts of the outcome of the revolt of September 30, 2010, which left five people dead, 274 wounded, about 300 sentenced and trials that are still open, were reconstructed. 11 days after eight years of the police revolt on Thursday, September...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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The State will save $ 120 million by reducing subsidies until 2019

Ecuadornews: The Government has not yet established mechanisms to review other subsidies. Yesterday the cabinet of the productive sector analyzed the results of the measures implemented. The President said that a plan for the airports is ready. The elimination of the state...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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