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Government justifies changes to draft Law for Economic Reactivation Plan

Ecuadornews:   Quito – Lower tax collection could mean the changes announced by the President of the Republic Lenin Moreno to the reforms included in the urgent project of Economic Reactivation Law that is analyzed in the National Assembly. Moreno, in his weekly...
Posted On 15 Nov 2017
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The arrival of unmanned ships, in the agenda

Ecuadornews:   The arrival of unmanned, drone or robotized vessels is not a distant reality. And yesterday, during the opening of the International Maritime Law Congress that ends tomorrow, Guayaquil, the port city, put the issue under debate. Mayor Jaime Nebot mentioned it...
Posted On 15 Nov 2017
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The CNE ratifies Lenín Moreno as national president of Alianza PAIS

Ecuadornews:   Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno will continue to lead the official party Alianza PAIS, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) ratified it on Monday, according to the Criminal Guarantees Court of Pichincha. The Court’s ruling instructed the CNE not...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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Corruption seen from the dollars perspective

Ecuadornews:   It is gibberish. Calculating the effect of corruption in dollars has several obstacles in the way. There are consolidated data in accounts abroad and numbers that do not appear in accounting records. The Civic Anti-Corruption Commission, however, made an...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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President Lenin Moreno removes reform that modified the deduction of the income tax for people without children

Ecuadornews:   President Lenin Moreno announced on Monday night, in his weekly address, that “due to the sensitivity of the demands of some sectors” he has “provided for the elimination of reforms that modified the income tax for people who do not have...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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Ricardo Patiño, Gabriela Rivadeneira and Doris Soliz were suspended for six months

Ecuadornews:   The Ethics Commission of the Alianza PAIS (AP) Party met on the night of November 13 in Santo Domingo and made an important announcement about the militants of the movement. Given the position expressed by Ricardo Patiño, Gabriela Rivadeneira, and Doris Soliz,...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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Ecuador delivers the first ID´s to foreigners in refuge status

Ecuadornews:   Monday, the Foreign Ministry of Ecuador delivered the first Ecuadorian IDs to foreigners on an international protection status (refuges). According to an official communiqué, this is a joint effort between the Foreign Ministry, the United Nations High...
Posted On 14 Nov 2017
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Odebrecht won sentences in 79% of tax trials in Ecuador

Ecuadornews:   State’s winning streak suffered a setback with Odebrecht. After winning 75% of the lawsuits for alleged tax evasion, the Internal Revenue Service went on to lose 79% of the cases brought against the Brazilian multinational in courts of the country in the...
Posted On 13 Nov 2017
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Julian Assange would have met with the promoter of the independence of Catalonia

Ecuadornews:   The Australian activist Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, would have met on November 9 for four hours with Orio Soler, one of the promoters of the process for the independence of Catalonia (Spain). The meeting took place at the Ecuadorian embassy in...
Posted On 13 Nov 2017
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Brief contracts, the taboo subject of the Labor Code

Ecuadornews:   A headache. The drafting of the Labor Code, once again, bumps into the same stone: the regulation of contracts for sectors that do not need daily staff for eight hours. The issue, said members of the Committee on Workers’ Rights and Social Security, is...
Posted On 13 Nov 2017
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