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New Electric Consumption Rate Scheme for the Coast Region

Last Friday, the Ecuadorian National Electricity Council (Conelec) set a new rate scheme in which it was approved the new top of electric consumption so that the coast region users can keep the subsidy, but only in during winter time. Coast people in residential sectors will stop...
Posted On 28 Jun 2011
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Guayaquil Citizens will Choose the 7 Main Attractions of their City

The Municipality of Guayaquil and the Shopping Centre Mall del Sur will present on Thursday a campaign called Choose the seven wonders of Guayaquil, which will invite the public to vote for their favorite places of Guayaquil as part of the commemorative city festivities of July....
Posted On 28 Jun 2011
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Remains of Atahualpa Mummified Might Be in Cotopaxi

For the inhabitants of the parish Chugchilán, in the province of Cotopaxi – Ecuador-, the Inca ruins where the remains of the last Inca emperor Atahualpa would have been, are still unknown according to a hypothesis by Tamara Estupiñán, an Ecuadorian researcher who discovered the...
Posted On 27 Jun 2011
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The World Cultural Tourism Fair is Being Held in Ecuador

Quito is the first Heritage city in the Americas and the largest colonial city in the continent. That was the reason why the Spanish company Marketing GSAR choose Quito for the third edition of CULTOUR, the World Fair of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, which ends today at the...
Posted On 24 Jun 2011
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Quito Presented a Subway Project for 2012

Quito’s first subway is the recent project presented by the capital city of Ecuador. The work will begin in July 2012 and will end in 36 months. Last Tuesday it was presented the feasibility and economic studies. The average cost of the ride ticket would be $ 0.40, price...
Posted On 23 Jun 2011
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Ecuadorian Huaorani won National Geographic Buffet Prize

The greenery of the National Park Yasuní, in the Amazonian jungle, is his birthplace and the place where his people live, the Huaorani. There, surrounded by so much nature, Moi Enomenga seduced people from National Geographic. Today he is the winner...
Posted On 22 Jun 2011
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Israel will Honor an Ecuadorian that Helped Jews During the Holocaust

The Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, will honor tomorrow to Ecuadorian Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero with the title “Righteous among the Nations” for his contribution to save Jews during the Second World War. The event will take place on the premises of the...
Posted On 22 Jun 2011
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Local Airline Icaro Requested the Suspension of its Services

The Ecuadorian airline Icaro, introduced this month a request for its dissolution to the Superintendence of Companies (SC) after nearly 40 years in the aviation market. The procedure, which is currently at the Department of Dissolution and Liquidation, is in the process of...
Posted On 21 Jun 2011
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Ecuador is the Largest Recipient of Refugees in Latin America

Each month Ecuador receives about 1,500 Colombians that flee violence in their country. This number has caused this country to be the main country that hosts refugees in Latin America. Currently there are 54,500 refugees in this country. According to the United Nations High...
Posted On 20 Jun 2011
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Check Ups in Mobile Clinics will be Possible from Today

After two weeks retard, at 09:30 today, two mobile hospitals acquired by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health (MSP) began their work in Guayaquil. In order to reduce the influx of users to the city’s public hospitals, medical centers perform surgery of low and medium...
Posted On 20 Jun 2011
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