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The candidate of the Christian Social Party (CPS), Cynthia Viteri, offered to imprison anyone who takes the lives of children and women (femicide). Surrounded by a group of women, Viteri presented yesterday in Quito the new campaign promise that includes the installation of an...

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), by the end of 2016, there were about 1.5 million people in this condition, almost half a million more than the previous year. This increase was registered in urban and rural areas.   David Vera, director...

Although he retired from his presidential candidacy, Alvaro Noboa supports the candidates for legislators representing the Guayas province of his Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante party, accompanying them on their tours in the different districts.   Last week he toured the...

The Ecuadorian National Conference of Indigenous People (CONAIE) ruled against the extension of the emergency situation in Morona Santiago after the death of a police agent in a clash in the Nankints community last December. This organization called on its foundations for an...

The head of the electoral mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) and former Dominican Republic President, Leonel Fernandez, signed a document with the National Electoral Council (CNE) on procedures. Today he will also sign the agreement on guarantees of immunities...

The controversial Brazilian construction company devised a business and accounting formula that later turned lethal. Odebrecht not only bribed politicians, officials and lawyers for years to get contracts but also gave the fines an organic and corporate character. The...

  The European Union estimates that it will acquire 16% more of liqueurs and tobaccos from Ecuador, as of the validity of the multi-party trade agreement. The producers of alcoholic beverages are already in the process of selecting distributors in European countries. One of them...

The presidential hopeful for the Social Christian Party (PSC), Cynthia Viteri, proposed the exemption of the 50% of the income tax (IR) for the bank loans granted to the agricultural sector and microcredit, as a measure to revive the economy. Currently, she said, the private...

  Last night six Twitter accounts of opponents and critics of the government of Rafael Correa were reported as hacked. So far, any group has been held responsible for the hacking. The accounts of the presidential candidates Dalo Bucaram, Andres Paez, journalist Carlos Vera,...

The meetings between the delegates of the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army were held on Monday for the fourth consecutive day and in a relaxed atmosphere, that guerrilla reported. The ELN published on its Twitter account that “the two delegations and...