Category

Maria Eugenia Cordovez Ponton, ex wife of former President of Ecuador, León Febres-Cordero, died Sunday morning  in Guayaquil. Mrs. Cordovez, who was known for her charisma and strong character, served as First Lady from 1984 to 1988, time when Febres Cordero was President of the...

Mundo Verde (Green World), from Ecuador, is one of the 25 companies of Latin America that will receive foreign support for their environmentalists’ projects with social orientation. Over 300 companies participated in the event The Green Pitch, of which 19 were winners, among...

Ecuadorian journalist Janet Hinostroza announced her temporary retirement from television after receiving death threats. This decision was made because of  the program ‘Las mañanas 24 horas’ (Teleamazonas), which aired two of three investigative reports on an...

Maintenance work at The Eloy Alfaro airport in Manta, will start  on the evening of September 22 until October 9. Carlos Jacome, Undersecretary of Civil Aviation, announced that the first areas to be fixed will be the ones surrounding the runway, that’s why commercial...

Strong winds now complicate the work of the firemen in the area of Ticantilin moor, on the south side of the Cotopaxi volcano. Five units of firemen were supplying themselves with nearby lakes to fight the fire. Meanwhile from the air, two helicopters equipped with Bambi Bucket...

Carolina Jijon, director Quito Botanic Gardens, pointed out that just the reforestation of a natural remnant would cost around seven thousand dollars and decades of recovery. However there are several nurseries to repopulate with local plants the sectors burned by the flames....

According with the report of the Spanish Embassy in Quito, Don Felipe de Borbon y Doña Letizia Ortiz, will visit the Andean country in October 4 and 5, along with a Spanish Business delegation. Javier Landa, the Economic and Commercial Councillor of the Embassy, informed that the...

Firefighters in Quito and other cities spent the morning attending emergencies in different parts of the capital, which reported about 12,000 meters of scrub incinerated. The affected areas in the capital were: : Lumbisí, Guangopolo, Atacazo, Guápulo, Zambiza, neighborhood San...

Yesterday afternoon, the Ecuadorian capital was declared a state of emergency operational product of the severe fires that have plagued the city throughout the week. This morning, three new fires were reported over the Guápulo the Ungüí hill, besides already started on the hill...

Esperanza, the mother of a 14-year-old teenager that is learning to be a mother, faces a judicial battle for the child support of his grandson. Over a  year ago, she denounced Jorge Heriberto Glas Viejo as the alleged rapist of her daughter. According to the testimonies that the...