Ecuador News

People who purchase goods and services – taxed with value added tax (VAT) – will pay 15% for this tax from April 1, 2024. This means three percentage points more, in relation to the percentage in force until March 31, 2024. That is, 12%. The VAT increase is contained in Executive  Decree 198, which modifies the general rate of this tax to 15 % by 2024....

A former cellmate of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, named Marcelo Lasso Saavedra, who has described himself as his “trusted man,” has testified during his anticipated testimony at the hearing for the Metastasis Case, which he witnessed, in two occasions, conversations by video call between Norero and the former President of the Republic...

The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador reported, in its official channels, that from Mexico the rescue of 27 Ecuadorians was confirmed inside a home located in Barrio Bahías, town of La Ventosa de Salina Cruz, State of Oaxaca. The compatriots, 13 men, 11 women and a family unit of three, were part of a group of 84 people of different nationalities who were...