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Moreno requests a legal study to replace Glas

Ecuadornews:     Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said today that he had asked presidential lawyers to study the procedures to replace Vice President Jorge Glas, now in pretrial detention, considering that “a person who is incarcerated, cannot hold office as vice...
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Surplus of income advance tax will be refunded

Ecuadornews:     Representatives of the public and private sectors reached an agreement: the gradual return of the surplus of the advance to the income tax. Director of the Internal Revenue Service Leonardo Orlando announced this agreement in a forum organized by the...
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IMF and FLAR, in the government plan to cover debts

Ecuadornews:       The government is seeking aid to cover the country’s substantial financing needs for 2017 in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR). President Lenin Moreno confirmed yesterday that for the...
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The Legislature will hold account to René Ramírez about Yachay

Ecuadornews:     Former Secretary of Higher Education, René Ramírez, will appear before the Citizen Participation Committee to hold account of Yachay University at the request of CREO Legislator Luis Pachala. The decision of the Legislative Council of Administration was...
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$ 2.6 billion in loans went to the rural sector

Ecuadornews:     Until June 2017, cooperatives that are part of the Popular and Solidarity Economy granted more than $ 2.6 billion in loans to rural areas, while banks, as a whole, placed close to $ 1 billion, Superintendent of Popular and Solidarity Economy Kleve Mejia...
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Five changes to Carta Magna and four laws with popular consultation in Ecuador

Ecuadornews:     If the seven questions of the consultation proposed by the president Lenin Moreno in the Constitutional Court and to win in the polls were accepted, five reforms to the Constitution and changes in four organic laws in the Assembly would be made. In...
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Block Alliance PAIS, without an exit in case of Jorge Glas that avoids rupture

Ecuadornews:     Quito – Since last Sunday, the official block of Alliance PAIS tries a political solution to the case of the Vice President of the Republic, Jorge Glas, to avoid the internal splitting of its members. Yesterday also did not emerge “white...
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Referendum: Question 4 on sexual offenses against children

Ecuadornews:   Question 4 Do you agree to amend the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador to never prescribe sexual offenses against children and adolescents? According to figures from the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), there are 2,512 cases in the...
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Referendum does not affect production at ITT

Ecuadornews:     It would have no effect. To win the yes, as it is raised the fifth question of the popular consultation, the oil exploitation in the National Park Yasuní by part of Petroamazonas would not be affected. The question proposed by the President of the...
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Police report includes Jorge G. in the network

   Ecuadornews:     Marcelo Odebrecht knew that the declarations of his executives would cause a political earthquake of great proportions in Latin America. Arrested and cornered by judges from Brazil and the United States, the heir of the continent’s largest...
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