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Early in the afternoon the government reached an agreement with the transporters to avoid any cease of activities. President of National Transportation Union of Taxis (Fedetaxis), Jorge Calderon assured yesterday the suspension of the strife that was going to start next Monday....

Lenin Moreno, Vice-President of Ecuador requested financial help, especially to industrialized countries, for the Yasuní-ITT environmental initiative concerning the weather change responsibility. Unesco declared Yasuní National Park as a world biosphere reserve in 1989. Due to...

Political Opposition is demanding to investigate the use of the presidential aircraft named Legacy  by the Assembley´s chairman Fernando Cordero and his wife for a ecuadorian immigrants meeting in Toronto, Canada. Past weekend, Cordero admitted have traveled Gloria Astudillo´s...

The National Assembly discusses plans the executive’s partial objection to the Public Service Law, as the second item on the agenda. The first item to be discussed is the report of the Special Permanent Sovereignty Commission, Integration, International Relations and Global...

As a sign of protest against the reforms on the Traffic Law, six federations of Transportations will go out on the streets on demonstrations. The groups demand the previous agreements to be respected, since, according to them, the new Law does not comply with them. This past...

The Assembly website suddenly announced the meeting at 15:30 on Monday in order to discusse  the Superior Education Law, which lawmakers will vote on 108 observations in 200 articles. The creation of the National Secretary for Superior Education, Science, Technology and...

BOGOTA, Colombia.- Colombia’s military killed the field marshal and No. 2 commander of the country’s main leftist rebel group on Thursday in the country’s eastern plains, authorities said. The death of Jorge Briceno, 57, is a huge setback for the Revolutionary...

Public workers went on strike this Thursday claiming and expressing their complaints for Labor Law. Their goal: they are pushing the Assembly in order to refuse the comments of the Presidency to the Public Service Law for attempting  against their rights. Unions marched in Quito...

Teachers from the National Educators Union (UNE) suddenly entered to the plenary National claiming against the Public Service Law. National Assembly President´s  Fernando Cordero decided to move on next week’s session that would discuss  Education Law. According to the...

Executive demands were supported in the Assembly when this official movement  vote by the Code of Land Management, Autonomy and Decentralization (Cootad). Among the proposals is a secretary of the National Competition Council chosen from a list submitted by the Executive and the...