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The CNE delivers the Legislators credentials today

From today until May 11, the National Electoral Council (CNE) is scheduled to deliver credentials to the new provincial Legislators elected on February 19. According to the official agenda, the first of a series of events will be held in the province of Orellana, although that...
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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Alianza PAIS and the political opposition debate on the tax havens law

The ruling party and the political opposition faced in a heated discussion yesterday in the plenary of the legislature during the debate on the Organic Law of Popular Consultation held on February 19 this year that bans public officials from have assets or capital in tax havens....
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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50 prisoners released with new device

Mauricio (protected name), a native from Guayaquil, was one of the inmates who yesterday expected to benefit from the first 50 electronic surveillance devices to be installed nationwide, out of a total of 400 available this month, according to the authorities of the Ministry of...
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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Guayaquil tourists choose religious destinations

Guayaquileans seek to walk the roads where Jesus was born, grew up and even died. Pilgrims go barefoot to sacred destinations, such as the Mount of Olives and the Wailing Wall. They pray, ask for favors, tour monasteries and temples on their knees. They do penance for their sins....
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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A luxury hotel anchored in the forest of Ecuador dazzles the world

Mashpi Lodge is located in the heart of Equatorial Chocó, three hours from Quito, and is part of the ‘Amazing Hotels’ series of the British news network BBC. TV presenters Giles Coren and Monica Galetti penetrated the almost unexplored Mashpi Reserve, a hotspot that...
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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A sit-in to protest against the decision of a local airline

With a peaceful sit-in, the tourism sector in Cuenca protested today against the decision of the Tame EP airline to suspend its flights from Guayaquil to the Andean city. The airline announced the temporary suspension since April 17 of its routes from Guayaquil to Cuenca and...
Posted On 20 Apr 2017
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The red figures of employment

The government of outgoing President Rafael Correa seeks to leave an image of positivism impregnated in the numbers that reflect the employment and the poverty situation in the first quarter of the year. Yesterday, three key men on his team disclosed details of the figures that...
Posted On 19 Apr 2017
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A legal action to curb a law that ‘hardens’ decree 16

Two social organizations filed a protection action so that the National Assembly inter alia “suspends the approval process” of the Code of Citizen Participation. Representatives of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) and the Regional Foundation for...
Posted On 19 Apr 2017
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“Brand-new” ballot papers appear during the recount process

Tuesday afternoon former vice presidential candidate Andres Paez submitted an investigation request before the Public Prosecutor´s office for the counting of votes performed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) at the Rumiñahui Coliseum in Quito. He described the process as a...
Posted On 19 Apr 2017
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A single party witnessed the counting of votes

With that scenario and almost an hour late, the recount of 3,865 vote tally sheets that were objected by the two fronts after the runoff, was held yesterday at the Rumiñahui Coliseum in Quito. But that was not the only novelty. Of 250 delegations the National Electoral Council...
Posted On 19 Apr 2017
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