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25 agreements between Ecuador and Peru were fulfilled this year

Ecuadornews:   The governments of Ecuador and Peru review the cooperation commitments signed last year, in areas such as tourism, mining, connectivity, commerce, security, infrastructure, among others. The president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno traveled with 18 high-level...
Posted On 20 Oct 2017
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Ecuador and Colombia outline binational cabinet issues

Ecuadornews:   The situation of people living at the border, migrants, and refugees; the commercial and economic sphere; human mobility and the peace process will be the topics to be addressed by Ecuador and Colombia at the Binational Cabinet, on December 4 in Pereira,...
Posted On 20 Oct 2017
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Chambers enlist a counter-proposal to avoid customs tariff

Ecuadornews:   The business sector will deliver next week a counterproposal to President Lenin Moreno in order to avoid the Customs Service Control Fee of $ 0.10 per unit of imported merchandise and the collection of mixed tariffs to 375 subheadings. President of the Chamber...
Posted On 20 Oct 2017
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Chevron celebrates judge’s opinion in Brazil contrary to the homologation of the Ecuador´s sentence

Ecuadornews:   The US company Chevron celebrated the opinion issued today by a judge of the High Court of Justice of Brazil against the homologation of the sentence of Ecuadorian Justice of Ecuador that obliged the oil company to pay 9,500 million dollars as a compensation...
Posted On 19 Oct 2017
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The National Audit Office sanctioned 18 IESS directors and audited the Vice Presidency

Ecuadornews:   The President of the Board of Directors of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) Richard Espinosa has a term of 30 working days, starting from October 17, to present his disclaimers against possible breaches in the registration of a State debt. If...
Posted On 19 Oct 2017
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The ‘special’ situation of Glas

Ecuadornews:   Vice President Jorge Glas has a group of special forces that protects him in prison 4. Minister of Justice Rosana Alvarado announced it on the day of his arrest. Glas was linked to the Odebrecht case for alleged unlawful association, in which his uncle Ricardo...
Posted On 19 Oct 2017
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Anti-Corruption Front is ‘dissolved’ and calls for changes in criminal areas

Ecuadornews:   The Anti-Corruption Front of the Executive presented more than a dozen proposals to modify criminal and public procurement rules to fight against corruption. The front concluded yesterday its functions and would be practically “dissolved.” After...
Posted On 18 Oct 2017
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Richard Espinosa clarifies the IESS situation

Ecuadornews:   The Chairman of the Board of the Social Security Institute, Richard Espinoza, was notified by the National Audit Office on giving account for the $ 2.527 million debt maintained by the state with the Institution in a 30-day term. Espinoza said he will present...
Posted On 18 Oct 2017
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The Odebrecht case traps three other people

Ecuadornews:   Criminal judge Ana Lucia Cevallos yesterday linked attorney Gustavo M., businessman Vladimir S., and the Vladmau Construcciones company, through its proxy Akira S., to the preliminary inquiry on the alleged crime of money laundering in the Odebrecht corruption...
Posted On 18 Oct 2017
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Banana farmers seek dialogue with the MTOP

Ecuadornews:   The banana sector of the province of El Oro will seek another dialogue with the Minister of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) Paúl Granda to discuss the port tariffs charged by the Turkish company Yilport, the concessionaire of the port terminal in Puerto...
Posted On 18 Oct 2017
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