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A single shrimp company shows what one of the most prestigious aquaculture industries can do. Itsname, Santa Priscila. Its revenues? $ 426.5 million, 30.5% more than in 2015. Its profits? 19 million dollars. 54.6% of the companies keep their tax obligations up to date, and a...

Yesterday Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez handed over to his Ecuadorian counterpart, Galo Chiriboga, 700,000 files that were found on seven computers seized during the two raids conducted at Odebrecht’s offices in Guayaquil and Quito on December 23, and...

The Ombudsman Office officially demanded the airline TAME EP to report on the actions or the mechanisms of solution for the passengers who have been affected by the suspension of the Guayaquil-Cuenca-Guayaquil and Guayaquil-Latacunga-Guayaquil routes. Maria Paulina Andrade,...

During an interview with Daily Expreso, Diego Salcedo, outgoing Legislator and representative of the CREO party in the Sovereignty Commission, commented on the decree signed by Rafael Correa, that guarantees security for him and his family after  he leaves office for up to one...

President Rafael Correa will sign an executive decree that grants him protection for a year or more, depending on the risk to which he is exposed. This is because the safety of senior officials is “a strategic objective of the State.”   Executive Decree 1369...

  The last meeting of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) was tense. Ecuador went straight to the point: producing countries should ensure transparency with regard to the figures they submit, that is to say, how much they produce, a key data to face the dramatic fall...

The outgoing Legislature ended with almost 200 bills submitted by opposition coalitions, almost double than those sponsored by Alianza PAIS ruling party, but none of them managed to penetrate the government majority to become a law. With the precedent still fresh, the new...

  Media reports of from the Caribbean country announce that Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will begin his official visit to the island with a tribute in the tomb of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who died last November. In what will be one of his last presidential acts,...

A child and a teenager who sought information about the dangerous game called ‘the blue whale’ alerted the police. The interest they showed aroused the concern of the authorities. In statements to Daily Expreso, the police reported that a possible...

All ministers, former ministers, managers and former managers of public enterprises of this Government and previous administrations, since 1987, who have signed contracts with the Odebrecht company shall be called to testify. That was the core of one of the two requests made...