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Odebrecht sent 30 countries USD 190 million from Ecuador

Ecuadornews:     The trades came to the Internal Rent Service’s Department of Tax Intelligence and the General Direction of the Financial and Economic Analysis Unit (Uafe in spanish), on May 24. In the documents, the office of prosecutor Diana Salazar, who is part...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Councilors ask Quito mayor to explain metro contract with Odebrecht

Ecuadornews:     Today, a group of councilors asked the mayor of Quito, Mauricio Rodas, for an explanation of the contract with the Acciona-Odebrecht consortium for the second phase of the metro, whose offices were raided Wednesday in the investigation of bribes of the...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Entrepreneurs call for ‘job security’

Ecuadornews:     Quito – Freedom to contract fixed-term and hourly labor, respecting labor guarantees and including training processes for those who have lost a job are the elements of “labor safety”, proposed yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce of...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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CREO claims to have several evidence against Jorge Glas

Ecuadornews:     It is the second try. The assembly block of the CREO-SUMA alliance began collecting signatures to politically challenge Vice President Jorge Glas. The road is not easy. For starters, at least the signatures of 46 legislators supporting the impeachment...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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The president gives clues with his first pardon

Ecuadornews:     They have hope. The indigenous leadership sees as a positive sign the pardon granted by the President of the Republic, Lenin Moreno, to Patricio Meza. He was serving a six-month sentence for the offense of attack and resistance, in Pastaza. His name was...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Pablo Celi orders to open new exams works of Odebrecht

Ecuadornews:     On June 14, 2017, and by means of an official memorandum, Deputy Comptroller Pablo Celi ordered the Comptroller’s Office of Audit and Environment to carry out new special engineering examinations in four infrastructure works involving the...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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The Venezuelan invasion

Ecuadornews:     In 2006, the number of Venezuelans entering Ecuador did not reach 12,000. A decade later, pushed by the crisis in their country, 13,700 citizens on average arrive, per month. The statistics of the entry of 68,839 Venezuelans in the first five months of...
Posted On 16 Jun 2017
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Rodas says that he has “nothing to hide”

Ecuadornews:     The Mayor of Quito, Mauricio Rodas, assured in a press conference that he has nothing to hide linked to the Odebrecht corruption case.  He also indicated that he is ready to appear before any court that summons him, as part of the investigations into...
Posted On 15 Jun 2017
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Total rejection at the increase in the water´s cost

Ecuadornews:     While the irrigation boards yesterday showed their disagreement with the increase in the water tariff for irrigation at the Assembly’s Food Safety Commission, the mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, also deplored the decision that the Secretary of...
Posted On 15 Jun 2017
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Entrepreneurs request ‘security labor and flexibility’

Ecuadornews:     Quito – Freedom to contract fixed-term and hourly labor, respecting labor guarantees and including training processes for those who have lost a job are the elements of “labor safety”, proposed yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce of...
Posted On 15 Jun 2017
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