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Drugs seized at Port of Guayaquil has a value of $ 275 million

On Tuesday, August 20, Guayaquil police seized 4.4 tons of cocaine hidden in a load of palm that was to be sent to Spain from the port of Guayaquil. The drug was discovered last Friday, it was previously estimated at 3.2 tons of cocaine, but after a more thorough check it was...
Posted On 21 Aug 2013
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Pilgrimage of the Virgin of El Cisne Culminates

The procession of the Virgen del Cisne finally culminated in the city of Loja. She arrived yesterday at 4:00pm, with thousands of local and foreign parishioners, who despite the cold and rain escorted “la portentosa” on her tour around the country. The Virgin arrived...
Posted On 21 Aug 2013
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Countries in Latin America are implementing the use of a tracking bracelet

A report on the human rights of prisoners in Latin America, published by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) revealed that excessive pretrial detention within the Hispanic judicial system is one of the major conflicts in the region. According to the document,...
Posted On 20 Aug 2013
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Virgen del Cisne reaches Catamayo

This Sunday, thousands of parishioners continued with the pilgrimage of the Virgen del Cisne, started from San Pedro de la Bendita to the Church of Maria Auxiliadora in Catamayo. After the celebration of the mass, Catholics began the journey, accompanied by the police, while Red...
Posted On 19 Aug 2013
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Self-medication, a double-edged weapon

According to Frans Serpa, director of the transplantation department of the Metropolitan Hospital, self-medication can soothe symptoms up to hide a serious pathology, as for example, those patients who self-medicate to relieve stomach pain, but in this affliction they can hide a...
Posted On 19 Aug 2013
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Quito Airport fulfills six months and defends its efficiency

After six months that the Tababela airport was opened, the operator of Quiport clarifies some doubts, especially in a well known front of the travelers who frequent the Ecuadorian capital because they are not comfortable with the airport location. Regarding this Luis Galarraga,...
Posted On 19 Aug 2013
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Virgen del Cisne starts its return to Loja

After traveling in a massive procession from Loja to El Cisne, tomorrow will start the return of the virgen”La Churona”, image that mobilizes thousands of faithful devotees from Ecuador, north Peru and other places of the world. The celebrations culminated in the...
Posted On 16 Aug 2013
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Reactions on favor and against the exploitation of the Yasuni

After the announcement made by the Presidency of the Republic, to close the so-called Yasuni-ITT initiative, which begun in 2007, looking for international funding to leave the oil underground. However, yesterday it was announced globally, the authorization for oil exploitation...
Posted On 16 Aug 2013
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Police request to include seven cyber-crimes in the Criminal Code

According to the head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Judicial Police Technology, the major Nicolay Zapata, the organized cyber-crime changed their modus operandi, they stopped “cloning” credit and debit cards to focus on the Internet to steal. Its purpose...
Posted On 15 Aug 2013
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GLBTI Community requests reform of the Civil Registration Act

Movements representing the GLBTI community (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex), insisted, to the Constituent Assembly, for a reform to the articles that establish the sex of the people in the identity card. Diane Rodriguez, of the group Silhouette X, said the card...
Posted On 15 Aug 2013
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