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  “I am asking for a minimum of a sense of authority,” said the legislator of the Pachakutik party Lourdes Tiban on her complaint raised before the National Electoral Council (CNE). On March 16 she requested that the television spot of the Alianza Pais campaign,...

A total of USD 2 602 million were received by Ecuador in 2016 for remittances sent by migrants residing in the United States, Spain, Italy and other countries. That amount represented an increase of 9.7% compared to 2015, according to the latest report published by the Central...

Juan Pincay has already lost count of how much he has invested in buying chemicals to fumigate almost three hectares of corn crops in the San Francisco precinct, inSancan, Jipijapa. For him, the pest is represented by the worm in its various forms, as they qualify it in the rural...

The afternoon of March 16, a sit-in was held outside the Guatemalan Embassy, located in the north of Quito. The congregation came forward to demand justice for the 40 girls who died burned at a Rehabilitation Center in Guatemala on March 8, 2017. Around flowers and candles, a...

  The accusations of corruption against the government of Ecuador thrown through social networks and from hiding by the former Minister of Hydrocarbons, Carlos Pareja Yannuzelli, benefited the presidential hopeful of the political opposition, Guillermo Lasso, according to...

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, Lilian Tintori’s husband, sent a message to Ecuadorians from the Ramo Verde military prison, where he has remained as a political prisoner of the regime of Nicolas Maduro for three years. “With profound respect for the...

The presidential candidate of the CREO-SUMA alliance, Guillermo Lasso, endorsed his proposal to remove the representatives of the control bodies appointed by the Citizen Participation Council through a referendum. Before a walk through the center-north of Quito, the candidate...

Alvaro Noboa, the leader of the Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante party, revealed on March 15 his political stance regarding the second round of elections. Through a video posted on Youtube, the five-time presidential hopeful said he would vote for Guillermo Lasso (Creo-SUMA party)....

The candidate and vice-president Jorge Glas has disappeared from the new official propaganda for the second round. Lenin Moreno appears alone in his posters, and without his companion, who has become the target of allegations of corruption by the political opposition. And after...

Public debt is one of the main challenges the new president will have to face. The problem, in the words of both candidates, is that the state’s commitments are short-term and have become costly (high interest). The country’s consolidated debt reached USD 27 509...