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Glas’s uncle encrypted cell phone messages

Ecuadonews:     A third pen drive is a new evidence in the Odebrecht case. Ricardo Rivera, the uncle of Vice president Jorge Glas (linked to the case with other 16 people on August 29), is investigated for illicit association. The device was delivered by a 30-year-old...
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Banana growers raise a law

Ecuadonews:     A bill for the Promotion of Prices and Markets for the Development of a Sustainable Economy for the Agricultural Sector is what the representatives of the banana farmers propose. That is why yesterday they submitted the initiative to the Commission on...
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Office of the Attorney General raids Eljuri stores; a businessman from Cuenca submits his version

Ecuadonews:     Although businessman Juan Gabriel Eljuri did not give statements to the press after he gave his free and voluntary version, within the preliminary investigation of alleged illegal fundraising in Ecuador through the Sai Bank, his lawyer Roberto Guevara...
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Employees of the Vice Presidency only talk about their employment situation and Jorge Glas

Ecuadornews:     Uncertainty and inscrutability. The staff of the Vice-Presidency works in that environment, after President Lenin Moreno, through the executive order No. 100, stripped Vice President Jorge Glas from his duties on August 3. Public servants do not hide...
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Correa and Jalkh sued for alleged influence peddling and procedural fraud

Ecuadornews:     The morning of Wednesday, September 13, 2017, former Legislator Cléver Jiménez filed a criminal complaint against former President Rafael Correa and the President of the Judicial Council Gustavo Jalkh for alleged influences peddling and procedural...
Posted On 14 Sep 2017
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The CAL calls Gustavo Jalkh to explain the ‘inexcusable error.’

Ecuadornews:     President of the Judicial Council Gustavo Jalkh will be summoned by the Commission of Justice to explain the processes of sanction of judges who committed the ‘inexcusable error.’ The decision was taken by the Legislative Council of...
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The companies of the governor of Manabí will be audited

Ecuadornews:     The companies of the Governor of Manabí Mariano Zambrano, and his son, a legislator of the same name, will be investigated by control bodies. The National Audit Office has confirmed it is conducting a special examination of the contracts signed between...
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Yachay, the chronicle of a shattered dream

Ecuadornews:     Sixty-five billion for the sewage and drinking water system, four million for a water treatment plant, tens of millions more for the construction of eight buildings and for the roads that would link them. But two years after the entry of the China...
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The National Mining Company and Cementera del Ecuador will be closed until the end of the year; Fabrec will be relocated

Ecuadornews:       The Coordinating Public Company (Emco-EP) aims to finish the year with a cost reduction of USD 180 million, a figure above the USD 50 million it saved in 2016. Emco-EP President Jorge Wated announces it Wednesday, September 13, 2017. These...
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Enrique Ponce: “we will make a smart tourist promotion in the country.”

Ecuadornews:     From the public sphere and as minister of Tourism, Enrique Ponce de Leon has set new challenges. The ultimate goal: to convert Ecuador into a true world tourism power. Q: You have proposed a tourist for each inhabitant. The proposal is ambitious, how...
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