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Assemblyman Cesar Umajinga (Pachakutik Party), yesterday requested the attendance in the Committee on Food Sovereignty of the Assembly of three government authorities to explain the ongoing negotiation between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) for a Trade Agreement. Francisco...

The IESS plans in the coming days to appoint the new Provincial Director of Guayas, for the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS). After the departure of Ivan Espinel, who now runs the Deputy Directorate of Health, the IESS President, Hugo Villacreses, posessed the new...

In February of this year, the Minister of agriculture, Javier Ponce, knowing drought that will hit the agro of Guayas, Los Ríos, El Oro and Manabí, put in maintenance all electrical appliances that capture water from the Daule river and send it by artificial canals to the farms...

Yanuncay River, the Chinese boat the Direction of Maritime Interests of the National Army bought for the dredging of the access channel to the seaport of Guayaquil, had a value of $ 22 million and was purchased from the Zhenjiang Hong Lin Shipping Project Company. The financing...

Several areas of Manabi experience a season of drought since the beginning of February, mainly affecting crops, what worries farmers in the area.   The alert was given last week. The notice spread regarding the fact that the authorities would send only 2 cubic metres per second...

The financial institution of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute recognized that credit delivery takes an average of six months. However, explains that this figure refers to the `scheme and previous system, i.e., the one the Tata company used to manage´.   On February 17,...

While Ecuador grew in the last years a 4.35% per cent between 2007 and 2013; and peaks of up to 7.8% percent in 2011, the doubts that the economy may be weakening begin to appear.   Is possible to mention that the fiscal deficit is almost $ 5 billion, equivalent to 4% of the...

From all parts of the country, many people have come to this place to enjoy the climate and the thermal pools. The owner of the Savoy, Miguel Cisneros, confirmed that Baños “looks full of tourists”, and explains that beforehand it had full reservations. Rosa Jácome,...

The Esmeraldas refinery provides to totally renovate its plant, for which it will suspend its activities from October to November of this year. Pedro Merizalde, Minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, estimates that the modernization project will start on 12th July and will...

Yanuncay river is the dredge that will keep 9,60 m at low tide (11.60 at high tide), the access channel to the seaport of Guayaquil, which will come tomorrow near the coast of the Posorja parish. The device will begin operating once work between the port authority of Guayaquil...