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EcuadorNews:   Legislature President Jose Serrano (AP) announced that a special commission will analyze the request for amnesty for 177 people, filed yesterday by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie). The letter calls for the immediate release of...

EcuadorNews: The figures are impossible, says the group. Fundamedios managed to account for at least 445 civil society organizations that have been dissolved following the enforcement of controversial executive decrees No. 16 and 739. In an investigation released yesterday, the...

EcuadorNews: Ecuador placed new foreign debt for $ 2 billion, after six days of the inauguration of President Lenin Moreno, according to a bulletin issued this afternoon by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Finance. The placement was made in two tranches of $ 1 billion each. The first...

  EcuadorNews: The intention of President Lenin Moreno to conduct a “major surgery against corruption”, is welcomed in all sectors. However, this is not the case with the announcement of the creation of the Front for Transparency and Fight against Corruption....

EcuadorNews: Opposite positions will be heard, starting at 09:30 on May 31, at the Justice Commission of the Legislature. Representatives of fathers and mothers groups, for and against shared custody and the division of living expenses, are invited. On May 18, former President...

EcuadorNews: Two US companies will invest between $ 400 million and $ 450 million for the development of Ecuador’s largest gold and silver mine, located in the country’s southern Amazon. Orion Mine Finance Group and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, both companies...

EcuadorNews: Pedro Delgado, former president of the board of the Central Bank, is facing a second criminal case for alleged illicit enrichment, after the prosecution had filed charges against him on the afternoon of Monday, May 29, 2017. Attorney General Carlos Baca intervened in...

EcuadorNews: The Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) is already analyzing the reforms to comply with campaign plans of Lenin Moreno, including the increase in Jubilee pensions of farmers. Richard Espinosa, chairman of the IESS Board, said that these will go from $ 63...

EcuadorNews: The main directors of the Municipal Transit Authority met to hear a proposal from delegates of the taxi operator Cabify about a study that allows the regularization of their service and, at the same time, work with formal taxi drivers. The information was...

EcuadorNews: The Minister of Foreign Trade Pablo Campana anticipates that the new Advisory Council will be made up of a board of four representatives of the public sector – two economic and two productive authorities – along with four others from the private sector....