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Bosé joins the initiative protection of the hammerhead shark in Galapagos

Ecuadornews:     Spanish singer Miguel Bosé joined a campaign that seeks to protect the hammerhead shark and the fauna of the Darwin and Wolf Marine Sanctuary (north of the Galapagos Islands) from illegal fishing. “We can not allow fishing fleets to invade marine...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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The Legislature approves the term ‘labor harassment’ in two laws

Ecuadornews:     Tuesday, August 22, 2017, the plenary session of the Legislature passed the reform bill to the Public Service Organic Law (Losep) and the Labor Code to prevent bullying in the workplace with 133 votes in favor. The standard introduces the definition of...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Richard Proaño: ‘I was dismissed for ruling against Ricardo Rivera.’

Ecuadornews:     Richard Proaño was a judge of the Childhood and Adolescence of the Guayas Province and says that they wanted to bribe him to rule in favor of Ricardo Rivera, uncle of vice president Jorge Glas, in a trial for alimony in 2011. Q: When the case came to...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Icons become iron in the hands of Dario Suarez

Ecuadornews:     “Legends of Hierro” is the exhibition of the Guayaquil artist Darío Suárez (1976) that will be displayed from August 22 to September 11 at Galeria Mirador, at Universidad Catolica de Guayaquil.     Suarez is a graphic designer and...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Lenín Moreno tones down his criticisms and Jorge Glas says they are ‘divorced.’

Ecuadornews:     “Why should I resign? In the first place, I was elected as a binomial; If I resign, we must leave both. I was elected as a team with President (Lenin) Moreno, and I will remain four years in office (until 2021),” said Vice President Jorge...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Jorge Glas and his fall in slow motion

Ecuadornews:     The only eclipse that could be seen yesterday in Ecuador was that of Vice President Jorge Glas, who lost his last rays of political life at 12:30, when the Attorney General’s Office made public his in links in the corruption plot sponsored by...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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Former judges say that their dismissal was due to pressure from the correism

Ecuadornews:     Former Judges Madeleine Pinoargote, Josué Sánchez, Richard Proaño, among others, denounced yesterday that about 40 judges would have been “illegitimately dismissed” by the Judicial Council. Proaño said he was removed from office for issuing...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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Universities see fewer resources in proforma budget of 2017

Ecuadornews:     The funds allocated to the state universities in the 2017 budget amount to $ 1,192 million, according to the document analyzed in the Legislature. However, the values are a 16,09% less than the Codified Budget of 2016, since this amount reached $...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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Construction sales fell in 2016

Ecuadornews:     Construction, as well as other productive areas, is vulnerable to external factors such as the devaluation of currencies and the economic situation of the country and regulatory changes. Thus, the construction industry recorded a decrease in sales...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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The ILO supports dialogue on labor reform

Ecuadornews:     Javier González-Olaechea Franco, a Peruvian official from the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Americas, and Minister of Labor Raul Ledesma Huerta opened yesterday the informative seminar of the ILO and its impact on Ecuador´s labor policy...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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