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Venezuelans request to enter Ecuador without a visa

The computer system registered problems during the massive entry of citizens of that country on Sunday, August 25, 2019. About 200 Venezuelan migrants attempted to block the international Rumichaca bridge. That happened during the afternoon of this Monday, August 26, 2019, once...
Posted On 27 Aug 2019
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Learn how to regularize the rental of a lodging property in Ecuador

Ecuador’s Ministry of Tourism seeks to regulate informal accommodations – these include properties that are being promoted on Airbnb. Some users have doubts about the fluidity and speed of this process. Hence, the Minister of Tourism, Rosi Prado de Holguín, is...
Posted On 26 Aug 2019
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Ecuador’s Prosecution received a report from the United States regarding Ola Bini

A week after the 120 days of fiscal instruction, regarding the attack on the computer systems dobe the Swedish Ola Bini and Ecuadorian Marco Argüello, the Prosecutor’s Office has added information from several hard drives that they were sent to the United States for...
Posted On 26 Aug 2019
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Some WhatsApp conversations between Alexis Mera and Rafael Correa were about bribery cases

Between May and September 2017, after leaving the Government, Alexis Mera, the former legal secretary of Rafael Correa maintained long chats with his ex-boss, on the one hand, concerned about the corruption information that came to light, and on the other, the uncertainty that it...
Posted On 26 Aug 2019
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52 agreements signed with the Productive Development Law – Ecuador August 2019

The Law of Productive Development generated liquidity, in its first year of application, in companies and in the fiscal box. And, although the regulations captured investment, the expected goals are not yet achieved. The regulations were approved on August 21, 2018, with the main...
Posted On 23 Aug 2019
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Cell phone conversations between Rafael Correa and Alexis Mera show they discussed about the future of Jorge Glas

One from Belgium and one from Guayaquil. The communication through WhatsApp between Rafael Correa and Alexis Mera flowed smoothly, despite the distance and the difference in schedules, the months after the former left power and left the country. Friends from adolescence at the...
Posted On 22 Aug 2019
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Desafiliaciones en Avanza tras fuga de Ramiro González

Quito –Fanny Uribe, vicepresidenta y exasambleísta de Avanza; Bayron Pacheco, secretario nacional general y exasambleísta, varios dirigentes provinciales y excandidatos en las últimas elecciones oficializarán su desafiliación del partido Avanza, en los próximos días. El...
Posted On 17 Aug 2019
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Various effects after journalistic revelations of the Panama Papers

The identification of senior public officials who benefited from illegal operations in tax havens, 18,000 investigations into possible tax defraud, and the disappointment of the population towards the political sphere, are some of the effects of the publication of the Panama...
Posted On 17 Aug 2019
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Ex-workers seek $265 million from Occidental Petroluem profit sharing plan

In a class action complaint, former employees of Occidental Petroleum, who are also citizens of Ecuador, are suing the company, alleging they are owed more than $265 million from a statutory profit sharing plan. Juan Carlos Cisneros, Wilson Fernando Achachi Seileman, Miguel Angel...
Posted On 17 Aug 2019
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President Palacio ‘endorsed’ the end of Oxy, says former minister

  Ivan Rodriguez, an official who declared the expiration of the contract with American oil company Occidental (Oxy), came forward to comment that in this case a possible recourse action is “not applicable” for the compensation the State shall pay to the company....
Posted On 17 Aug 2019
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