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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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More than 200 political groups are authorized for 2019

Ecuadornews: Six months before the sectional elections of March 24, 2019, the Transitional National Electoral Council plans to approve today the Permanent Register of Political Organizations that contains the list of candidates that may apply. Until last Thursday 223 legalized...
Posted On 24 Sep 2018
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Awards for the Guayaquil International Airport

Ecuadornews: The José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil was chosen as the best air terminal in Latin America and the Caribbean by the International Airport Council (ACI). And it obtained two other distinctions: the second best airport in the world in the...
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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Inefficient public spending passes bill to Latin America

Ecuadornews: A study by the IDB reveals that the inoperability in public purchases, services and transfers cost the region $ 220,000 million a year; that would have served to eliminate extreme poverty. The global financial crisis unleashed in 2008 increased the prices of raw...
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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Juan Pablo Albán says that the Judiciary Council has ‘listening equipment

Ecuadornews: This Thursday, September 20, 2018, Juan Pablo Albán finished his duties as member of the Council of the Judiciary (CJ) transitional, as an assignment of the Council of Citizen Participation (Cpccs-t). He leaves the position for academic commitments previously...
Posted On 21 Sep 2018
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