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The Assembly begins hearings on performance of prosecutor Galo Chiriboga

The heads of the National Audit Office, the Superintendency of Banks and the Internal Revenue Service today shall appear before the Audit Commission of the Assembly, which seeks to determine whether or not to prosecute Attorney General Galo Chiriboga, for his performance in the...
Posted On 15 Nov 2016
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The Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante party presented the candidates for Assembly members

Alvaro Noboa, the leader of the Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante party, revealed the names of the main candidates for the National Assembly for the 2017 elections. Sylka Sanchez tops the list as the first national legislator. Noboa indicated that she deserves this position for the...
Posted On 15 Nov 2016
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Financing of weekly addresses appears in SECOM reports

Since June 4, weekly addresses are financed with donations and not with public resources. President Rafael Correa said it about complaints against government spending that arose in social networks before the imposition of taxes for the reconstruction of the areas affected by the...
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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The dead are also eligible to vote in 2017

  Leonardo Augusto Mantilla Arriaga, with identification card 0902029164, has been registered and qualified to pay in the electoral processes of 2009, 2011 and 2014, always in the Ximena parish, in Guayaquil. He is also one of the 12’816,698 citizens who shall vote in the...
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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Correa says that Calvopiña was not appointed by his government

President Rafael Correa said that the two former officials of Petroecuador imprisoned Friday, who kept 300 thousand dollars in cash, hidden in bags in the roof of their houses, were not appointed by his government, but were career officials. Correa said that Marco Calvopiña,...
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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Panama processes the extradition of businessman involved in the Petroecuador case

The Foreign Ministry of Panama initiated the extradition proceedings of Arturo Pinzon, Ecuadorian businessman arrested in that country last November 10, who is investigated for being part of a corruption plot in Petroecuador. The agency confirmed to Daily La Estrella of Panama...
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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Remittances abroad rise by 10.9%

Foreigners who have come to the country to work have sent profits to their relatives. In the first half of the year, these totaled $ 150.1 million, an increase of 10.9% over the same period last year ($ 135.3 million). Colombia and Peru are the main destinations for Ecuadorian...
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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Signing of a multiparty trade agreement of Ecuador with the European Union is rejected with a sit-in

Social organizations such as Ecuador Decide and Accion Ecologica held a musical sit-in Friday at the 12 de Octubre Avenue, a few meters from the Isabel La Catolica monument, against the signing of the Multiparty Trade Agreement with the European Union (EU), Signed in Brussels....
Posted On 14 Nov 2016
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“Count With Me,” an inclusion campaign in Guayaquil

Vice-Mayor of Guayaquil Domenica Tabachi launched the “Count With Me” inclusion campaign, as part of the “A More Inclusive Guayaquil” project. Parents, children from the local arts and crafts centers, and representative figures of the campaign, such as the...
Posted On 11 Nov 2016
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Alvaro Noboa gives up his presidential candidacy in order not to ‘further fragment’ the opposition

Alvaro Noboa desisted from his presidential candidacy this Thursday, November 10, 2016, and stated that his party, Adelante Ecuadorian Adelante, will not present a binomial in the elections of February. At a press conference in Guayaquil, the banana mogul said that with this...
Posted On 11 Nov 2016
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