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A book is published; A wasted decade, a criticism from the left to the model of Rafael Correa

Ecuadornews: With the book A Wasted Decade, written by Alberto Acosta and John Cajas Guijarro, the Andean Center for Popular Action presents an analysis of economic management during the government of Rafael Correa. His conclusion: despite the makeup, the “enchanted...
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Roadmap ready for ITT area without affecting the extraction

Ecuadornews: The roadmap for the extension of the Tagaeri Taromenane Intangible Zone (ZITT) is already defined, while at the same time the oil extraction plans of the ITT (Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini) are not affected. These zones are located in the sector of the Yasuní National...
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Ecuador and Chile commit to advance in commercial relationship

Ecuadornews:   The Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, María Fernanda Espinosa, announced on Sunday, March 11, that Ecuador and Chile undertook the commitment to continue advancing in their economic and trade relations, as well as in social issues and...
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Complaints from TC Televisión and Cable Visión reach Comptroller

Ecuadornews: The general manager of TC Televisión, Martha Moncayo, and the liquidator of Cable Visión, Rubén Solórzano, presented this afternoon to the deputy superintendent Pablo Celi complaints about the misuse of public funds in hiring by previous administrators of the two...
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Assembly censures former communications superintendent Carlos Ochoa

Ecuadornews: With 119 votes in favor, none against and one abstention (among 120 present legislators ), the National Assembly has censored, shortly before midnight, the former communications superintendent Carlos Ochoa, who was already dismissed by the Commission of Citizen...
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Scheduled halts of the Esmeraldas Refinery will be extended for 3 years

Ecuadornews: The Esmeraldas Refinery, which was upgraded during the previous government, will be intervened again. Petroecuador will make an integral maintenance in this industrial plant that will take around three years. In this period, programmed stoppages will be carried out...
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Bill encourages new and existing investments

Ecuadornews: The proposed Organic Law of Attraction of Investments includes the exemption of Income Tax in the sectors of fresh food, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, tourism, among others. In February, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Pablo Campana, presented to the...
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Corruption in CTE was tracked for five months

Ecuadornews: The corruption network that would have been discovered in the Ecuadorian Transit Commission (CTE) started from two cybercafés located in the vicinity of the institution. The Office of the Public Prosecutor has this information and believes that licenses were issued...
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FEF rejects DirecTV proposal to acquire transmission rights

Ecuadornews: The Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) today rejected, with the endorsement of several observers, the proposal of the DirecTV company to acquire the television transmission rights of the Ecuadorian soccer championship, for not meeting two requirements. The FEF held...
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Two trials and replacement of José Serrano are pending in the Assembly

Ecuadornews: The National Assembly has two pending impeachment proceedings: one of Carlos Ochoa, former Superintendent of Communication, and another of Carlos Baca Mancheno, attorney general. The first will be resolved this afternoon. Carlos Bergmann, second vice president and in...
Posted On 12 Mar 2018
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