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The presence of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht can be traced in at least fifteen major works in the country. The Manduriacu hydroelectric plant, the Daule Vinces irrigation project, La Esperanza aqueduct and the preparation of the land in the Pacific Refinery, and...

The legal director of the Noboa Corporation, Fernando Alarcon, stated that the Compañía Agrícola Bananera Clementina S.A. decided to pay $ 3,944,420.93 to settle the debt with the former employees of La Clementina farm, to avoid the consummation of “a new arbitrariness and...

Marcelo Odebrecht. The firm that bears his surname, one of the world’s largest construction companies, paid $ 33.5 million in kickbacks in Ecuador, he said yesterday during his admission of guilt to the US Attorney’s Office where he is being prosecuted. According to...

Candidates for Assembly members Marcela Aguinaga (AP) and Vicente Taiano (PSC-MG) accused each other of alleged acts of land speculation, regarding the position they maintain on the bill that seeks to regulate capital gains. Aguinaga, current Vice-President of the Assembly,...

The Contentious Tax Court accepted the appeal of the legal secretary of the Presidency, Alexis Mera. Thus, the Court rejected the writ of habeas corpus filed by the defense of Cléver Jiménez and Fernando Villavicencio. Their defense lawyer, Julio César Sarango, confirmed it...

The NGO Acción Ecológica yesterday demanded the government to “prove” the statements of the Interior Ministry, which assured that they allegedly committed “violent acts” after “alerting” about the environmental impacts of mining projects...

Five of sixteen mining projects are “trouble spots” with the aboriginal communities and the National Government. Sixteen mining projects and reserves are included in the National Development Plan for the Mining Sector; Of them, five are considered as a priority to...

A group of 169 Waoran women associated with a craft project using chambira as a raw material. They have more than a decade developing their work with this fiber they color with vegetal products of the eastern jungle. They undertook the project with the idea of generating work in...

There are days when the ton of cocoa loses 120 dollars in the international market of commodities and others, 46 dollars, like Tuesday. The swing in the stock markets of New York (USA) and London (England), which mark the prices of other countries, including Ecuador, has an...

Fernando Alarcon, Legal Director of the Noboa Corporation qualified as a “new arbitrariness” the decision ordered by the Labor Inspector of Babahoyo against the Compañia Agricola Clementina for unpaid values to workers. Alarcon explains that the government is holding...