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Ecuadornews: The mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot plans to install 6,000 free and wireless Internet points throughout the city. Today that figure reaches 4,114 points. According to Nebot, Guayaquil was already “a digital city” with 2,500 points. But that “goal...

Ecuadornews: Between 2007 and 2016 Ecuador invested 561 million in the protection of 52 natural areas to improve the management of protected areas, fight deforestation and establish an integral waste operation, according to the Ministry of the Environment. The percentage of...

Ecuadornews: 74 votes of the legislators of Alianza PAIS, plus three votes of the Izquierda Democratica, Sociedad Patriotica and Movimiento Creyendo en nuestragente parties gave Jose Serrano a landslide victory as president of the National Assembly. Serrano, who will remain two...

Ecuadornews: The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating alleged irregularities in payments for $ 251,985,858.43, made by the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) between 2012 and 2015 to ten private hospitals in Guayaquil and Quito for the external provision of...

Ecuadornews: During his last weekly address, broadcast from the Manabi province, as a symbolic remembrance act of the birth of the Ecuadorian constitution of 2008 in Ciudad Alfaro, something that would later constitute the bases of the “citizen revolution” carried out...

Ecuadornews: The indigenous movements allied to the ruling party will give Lenin Moreno a ‘spiritual sacred scepter’ as a symbolic Presidential inauguration act. The National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous and Afro-American Organizations (Fenocin), along with...

Ecuadornews:   President Correa’s warning of “sending ambassadors home” (whom he branded as “fourth-class ambassadors”) for publicly criticizing the decision of the Ecuadorian government to suspend Bilateral Investment Treaties is, in the opinion of...

Ecuadornews: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has “everything ready” to reduce the two percentage points of the value added tax (VAT), according to Guillermo Belmonte, deputy director of the tax agency.   The Solidarity Law, enacted on June 1st, 2016, established a...

EcuadorNews: The Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil expressed its rejection to the creation of an armed civil guard for the protection of authorities and state agencies. Pablo Arosemena, the leader of the guild, raises concern about the true objective and future of this armed group...

EcuadorNews: The current legislative administration that concludes today, with Gabriela Rivadeneira (AP) at the lead, has a labor load of 1,281 officials, who represent a state investment of more than $ 3 million per month. This money dilutes in paying legislative servants and...