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Indigenous and Businessmen Announced their Refusal against the Referendum

Entrepreneurs and the indigenous movement announced their opposition to the next referendum. The Ecuadorian Business Committee requested the Constitutional Court to reject the referendum introduced last week by the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, because the laws that want...
Posted On 25 Jan 2011
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Carlos Vera is Still Collecting Signatures

As reported in Ecuador Inmediato website, As reported in Ecuador Inmediato website, former Ecuadorian television anchor, Carlos Vera, managed to get 1 million 300 thousand signatures to remove Rafael Correa from the presidence. “We have one million 300 thousan...
Posted On 25 Jan 2011
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Ecuadorian Police Leave Administrative Tasks

The Executive Order 632, issued on January 17, provides that the legal, judicial and extrajudicial representation of the National Police, and also its reorganization, must be entirely assumed by the Ministry of Interior. The first changes will be on the personnel management: no...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Correa Handed Out the Questions for Referendum

Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, gave today the questions that will go to the referendum for the constitutional court approval. The questions are: Constitutional Amendment Questions 1-    With the purpose of improving the safety for citizens, do you agree that the current law...
Posted On 18 Jan 2011
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Campaign for a Decent Work Started Today

Today the Ecuadorian Ministry of Labor Relations began the campaign “Trabajo Digno” (Decent work) which objective is to communicate the rights and obligations of employers and employees. The campaign will last six months and will include commercials and random visits...
Posted On 17 Jan 2011
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Vice-president Assures Subsidies will Maintain

On Monday, Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, assured that the $4.000 million of subsidies in the country will be kept, because their elimination represents a high social and political cost. Moreno said that the government will maintain the subsidies, because they have...
Posted On 17 Jan 2011
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New Transit Law approved

The new transit law was approved yesterday in the National Assembly with 80 votes in favor from parties as Alianza País and Sociedad Patriótica, while Madera de Guerrero and Social Cristiano were opposed. There were several conflicts in the session because of many complaints from...
Posted On 14 Jan 2011
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Carlos Ramírez Assumes Presidency at the New Court of Justice

Yesterday, Carlos Ramírez was chosen President of the Court of Justice. The Voting was made in private, after an hour they let media to get in, when the outgoing president, José Vicente Troya, was positioning and taking the oath of his successor. Ramirez was chosen in the second...
Posted On 13 Jan 2011
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Intercultural Education Law was Approved

Intercultural education law was approved yesterday in the National Assembly with 116 votes. The new ecuadorian law ensures that 139 thousand teachers in the country will receive a living wage of $700, and it also guarantees that the amount of retirement will increase. Yesterday,...
Posted On 12 Jan 2011
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Estero Salado Would Be Purified

After almost a year from the government announcement of the decontamination of Estero Salado, the main estuary from Guayaquil City, President Rafael Correa said yesterday that six stations to purify the estuary’s water through intensive oxygenation will arrive to the country in...
Posted On 12 Jan 2011
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