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EcuadorNews: The bill on the legal classification of the crime of hate and discrimination in social networks confronts the ruling party and the opposition. The Legislative Council of Administration still does not qualify that proposal forwarded by former President Rafael Correa...

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....

  EcuadorNews: Two relevant data show the results of the latest Survey of Surface and Agricultural Production (Espac, 2016) conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC): agricultural work decreased as well as the yields per hectare during last year....

EcuadorNews: Four days before the new Legislature was installed, the Council on Legislative Administration (CAL), whose majority is made of members of the ruling party, reassigned the controversial bills processed by the Commission for Citizen Participation to the Justice...

EcuadorNews: Indigenous leaders hope that this week President Lenin Moreno materializes his offer of dialogue and, as one of his first actions, he grants pardon to those sentenced and accused of terrorism for participating in the demonstrations and closures of roads, where a...

EcuadorNews: According to statistics from the National Directorate for Crimes against Life, Violent Deaths, Disappearances, Extortion and Kidnappings (Dinased), 26 of these violent deaths have been due to micro traffic (internal drug trafficking), followed by threats (11),...

EcuadorNews: At least 5,795 authorities, including the President, will be able to run for the same position in future elections, regardless of how many periods they have been in office. On May 24, when Lenin Moreno was inaugurated, the re-election ‘padlock’ was...