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Ecuadornews: The Presidential Protection Service is responsible for the President’s security 24 hours a day. 520 agents make up the PPS, who are divided into three groups: Presidential Protection, Technical Security, and Presidential Escort.   Source:...

Ecuadornews:     Three ports, a road system, and a housing project are executed by public-private alliances (PPP). To that end, the Government signed contracts totaling USD 4 027 million, according to information available on the website of the former Coordinating...

Ecuadornews:     Two new public hospitals and the regeneration of one more will be a reality in 2019. Between March and May of this year, the Procurement Service (Secob for its Spanish acronym) contracted the execution of those projects required by the Ministry of...

Ecuadornews:     Ecuador’s state oil company Petroamazonas announced it would open an international tender to increase the production of 15 smaller fields in an attempt to boost extraction levels in the country. Strategic partners are the aim to operate these...

Ecuadornews:     Eliminating the gender gap in the labor market, with an equal participation of women, would inject some $ 13 billion into the world economy, according to a recent World Bank report. The data was addressed by Bibiana Aido Almagro, a representative of UN...

Ecuadornews:     The future is hours and not years when it comes to technology. Ecuadorian shopping centers and an expert analyze and take action regarding what happens abroad: virtual businesses gain ground and force shopping centers to close. This situation makes them...

Ecuadornews:     José Santos, an executive of Odebrecht in Ecuador, has used as evidence videos made by him of meetings with Ecuadorian authorities, as revealed by the magazine Veja, one of the most prestigious in Brazil. As a reward for his collaboration in the trial...

Ecuadornews:     Political responsibility. That is the main reason for the opposition to initiate the request of impeachment against vice-president Jorge Glas. The CREO-SUMA bloc is determined to bring the accused to the dock because they assure there are proven cases...

Ecuadornews:     Even the smallest bite of food that President Lenin Moreno swallows is analyzed by the Presidential Protection Service (SPP), a group of 530 elite agents, including the military, police, and agents of the Transit Commission of Ecuador. Their mission: to...

Ecuadornews:     The CREO-SUMA block began collecting 46 signatures in support of the impeachment petition against the Vice-President of the Republic, Jorge Glas, for alleged crimes of concussion, bribery, embezzlement and illicit enrichment. The petition will be...