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Ecuadornews:   Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa announced that there will be a 10% reduction in the number of accredited officials at embassies and consulates abroad. “This is part of the austerity decree and, in some cases, a little bit more (of 10%), and...

Ecuadornews:   The interest of private companies to invest in four oil fields and one of natural gas will be known tomorrow (May 29, 2018). These areas are part of the round called Oil & Gas, the second that drives the Government. The public company Petroamazonas will...

Ecuadornews:   The highest environmental authority defends the changes in the Tres Bocas operating system, although he recognizes risks. His task, he says, is “to take care that this potential risk is minimized“. Why was the entry of large vessels authorized to...

Ecuadornews:   The license announced by the chancellor, María Fernanda Espinosa, does not diminish the discomfort that her management generates in the Assembly. What’s more, she increases it. The parliamentary blocs that request a political trial warn that now there...

Ecuadornews:   Finance and Foreign Trade prepare mechanism to pay arrears by drawback and CAT. The debt would amount to $ 180 million, according to Fedexpor. Starting in June, a payment mechanism will operate to settle commitments that the State has with the export sector...

Ecuadornews:   Since Tuesday, May 22, 2018, the sale and use of straws in the Galapagos Islands is prohibited. This is the first of four plastic single-use products that will not be able to enter the island from this year, to avoid contamination. Progressively, until August...

Ecuadornews: The doors of the National Museum of Ecuador (MUNA) were opened to the public since the morning of this Saturday, May 19, 2018. Some sculptures of Afro-descendant women welcomed the first visitors, who arrived when the stage set up for the event was still being...

Ecuadornews:   The Ecuadorian government has invested at least five million dollars (4.2 million euros) in an “espionage operation” to “protect” the Australian activist Julian Assange, a refugee since 2012 at the embassy of Ecuador in London, as...

Ecuadornews:   Police intelligence agent Raúl Ch. Delivered evidence that changed the fate of the trial for the plagiarism of the politician in Colombia in 2012. With these tests, he became involved in the criminal proceedings against the Senain, Pablo Romero, and the...

Ecuadornews:   Marcel Feraud and Armando Valladares, members of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, made a “humanitarian visit” on Monday morning, May 7, 2018, to Lara, who has served a sentence since November 2014. According to Valladares, in a democracy...