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Influenza Vaccination Campaign Began Today

The vaccination campaign for the prevention of influenza virus in children under 5 years started today. About 500 thousand doses of the vaccine, called trivalent, has been distributed nation wide. Minister David Chiriboga asked Ecuadorians to go to health centers an...
Posted On 24 Jan 2011
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Funeral March Against Violence

Vicente Sarmiento was one of the organizers of the so-called Funeral March against crime, performed on Thursday at 17:00 in downtown Guayaquil. On October 8, 24-year old, Vicente Francisco, Sarmiento’s son died due to a hemorrhagic pancreatitis caused by an overdose of...
Posted On 21 Jan 2011
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Three Flooded Provinces in Ecuador

At the north of Manabí 120 people were evacuated from their homes because of a heavy rain, which began on Wednesday and lasted until yesterday at 6:00, that flooded the 40 homes where they lived. Jairo Flores, Fire Department Chief from El Carmen ...
Posted On 21 Jan 2011
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Entrepreneur Ismael Pérez P. Died Yesterday

Yesterday in Guayaquil City, businessman Ismael Pérez Perasso Olmedo died. He was born on December 14th, 1930 at the home of the journalist Ismael Pérez Castro, former Chief Director of newspaper El Universo, and Maria Teresa Perasso Carmigniani. The entrepreneur founded...
Posted On 20 Jan 2011
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Radio Sucre Executives Left Their Facilities

Radio Sucre Executives Left Their FacilitiesYesterday, Radio Sucre executives left their building, located in Kennedy Norte, after CFN seized them for a $ 3 million-dollar debt. The station’s director, Gabriel Arroba, explained that there are no problems with th...
Posted On 20 Jan 2011
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Ecuador Seduces Tourists from Fitur in Spain

Since yesterday, Ecuador promotes its Andean landscapes, sunny beaches and more of its attractions in its stand at the 31st edition of the International Tourism Fair in Spain (Fitur). About 10,500 businesses, ministries, and tourism offices of 166 countries will have the...
Posted On 20 Jan 2011
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H1N1 Virus Takes its Ninth Victim

A 39-year-old woman from the province of Imbabura, Ecuador, died yesterday due to the H1N1 virus. According to ECTV, public television channel, the woman died when she arrived to the medical center with respiratory complications. This becomes the ninth death caused by H1N1 in the...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Rafael Correa Rejects Reina del Camino Operation

After meeting in San Isidro with the families of those who perished in the crash of Reina del Camino, president Rafael Correa said that neither the Transit Commission, nor him will accept the decision that the first temporary judg...
Posted On 18 Jan 2011
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Radio Sucre Was Seized

National Finance Corporation (CFN) seized the building where Cadenar system (Radio Sucre, Cupido, and Sistema Dos chain station) operates, due to a $ 2’600.000 dollars debt. Employees from the radio stations were forced to leave the facilities and enable the automatic mode...
Posted On 18 Jan 2011
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Water Cuts Due to Interagua Maintenance

Interagua is still undergoing maintenance, surveys and interconnections are being held, for this reason water services will be suspended today in various southern, central, and north zones of Guayaquil. The suspension of water service in Libertad II, Villa Rosario S.A....
Posted On 18 Jan 2011
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