andes.info.ec reported that The United States oil company, Chevron-Texaco, sentenced to pay $9.5 billion dollars for environmental remediation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is one of the international companies that finances the organization Transparency International. Public Administration Secretary, Cristian Castillo, shared with the Andes Agency that the organization elaborated a report on corruption, placing Ecuador in […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported… It sounds like a plot from an Indiana Jones film, but explorers claim to have found ruins hidden deep in a dense and dangerous Amazonian jungle that could solve many of South America’s mysteries – and lead to one of the world’s most sought-after treasures. The multinational team, including Britons, has located the […]
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Panama Monday recalled its ambassador to Ecuador to express its unease at the repeated refusal of the Ecuadorian government to return the Panamanian fishing vessel Doria, held by the Ecuadorian Navy since October 13. The Panamanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Ecuador has attempted to link the case of the vessel with its […]
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theprovince.com reported that a multinational team has located the site in a remote region in central Ecuador which it believes could represent one of the great archaeological discoveries. They have already unearthed a 260ft tall by 260ft wide structure, made up of hundreds of two-ton stone blocks, and believe there could be more, similar constructions […]
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wikipedia.org…Bomba or Bomba del Chota is an Afro-Ecuadorian music, dance and rum al form from the Chota Valley area of Ecuador in the province of Imbabura and Carchi. Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the middle passage and the use of African slave labor during the country’s colonial period. Africans brought to […]
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lahora.com.ec reported thatetween 2011 and 2013, the Office registered 17,550 nationally reported missing in the country. The provinces that recorded the most cases with 5,656 Pichincha, Guayas to 5,619, with 1,239 and Azuay. While that fewer cases are recorded Galapagos 6, Zamora Chinchipe 33, Napo 51 and Santa Elena 79. Learn inside cultural aspects of […]
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OSCAR LEÓN, TRNN PRODUCER – reported:Indigenous communities and the affected local communities have opposed this mining initiative for many years now and have protested against it all around the country. This has led to a split between Correa, ecologists, some student groups, and the indigenous confederations, all of which were his former allies. Correa has […]
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Techdirt.com reported that there’s the strange case of Spanish “anti-piracy” firm Ares Rights, which didn’t actually seem that interested in “anti-piracy” but in out-and-out censorship via copyright fraud on behalf of various Latin American countries. Ares Rights (correctly) realized that copyright notice-and-takedown provisions were a de facto censorship tool, and has used that to the […]
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SolGold has found more deposits at its Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador, but its shares fell after it said some of the find was lower grade. SolGold said one of the drill holes at its Alpala prospect at Cascabel, CSD-13-005, continued to come across strong copper sulphide porphyry mineralisation at depth. Read Article
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dailymessenger.com.pk reported that Ecuador’s Interior Minister Jose Serrano says 55 inmates have escaped from an overcrowded jail in Ecuador with the ‘express participation’ of prison guards. The jailbreak took place on Sunday at the detention facility in the capital Quito and 20 escapees were quickly recaptured, authorities said. Serrano accused a senior prison official of […]
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eltiempo.com.ec reported that the biggest problem is the presence of criminals, who take advantage of the disorder which reigns in the street Mariano cave to commit their misdeeds. Something similar happens in the Gaspar Sangurima Street, opposite the square Rotary, where the miscreants are spying on citizens waiting buses at the stop to arranchar them […]
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rapidtvnews.com reported that the market is clearly dominated by DirecTV, which has 35% of the country’s pay-TV audience, followed by CNT-TV with 13%. Regional and local platforms share the rest of the cake, with cable companies being especially important in the capital district. Direct-to-home (DTH) platforms were behind the growth in Ecuador’s pay-TV during Q3, […]
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wikipedia.org…Ecuador supplies 95 percent or more of commercial balsa. In recent years, about 60 percent of the balsa has been plantation grown in densely packed patches of around 1000 trees per hectare (compared to about two to three per hectare in nature). It is evergreen or dry-season deciduous, with large (30–50 cm or 12–20 in) […]
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DAILYMAIL.CO.UK reported…They are completely free of two of the most debilitating illnesses – diabetes and cancer. Now scientists hope a community of dwarfs living in a remote corner of Ecuador could hold the key to a cure for both. The Laron dwarfs, who have a condition believed to be caused by inbreeding, appear to be […]
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CSMONITRO.COM REPORTED … USAID expects to close its doors in Ecuador by September 2014 due to an increasingly acrimonious relationship with President Rafael Correa. This comes six months after it was kicked out of Bolivia. In a letter to USAID partners in the country on Thursday, acting Mission Director Christopher Cushing said the decision to […]
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According to eldiario.ec the owners and users of the Internet PC, located in Pichincha and seven in August, streets in Chone, took a big scare when armed men entered the premises and stripped them of their belongings of value. The fact was recorded around 17 h 00 on Wednesday, as a witness was. The user […]
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eldiario.ec reported that according to police passengers of a bus of the cooperative Vuelta Larga were assaulted in the via Manta-Portoviejo, on Friday night. The unit was circulating Duragas when the anti socials assaulted passengers. According to police, four men took bags, documents, clothing, money in cash and cellular phones. Read Article GET THE INSIDE […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that in May 2007, President Rafael Correa announced the first emergence of the prison system. He has promised to implement a genuine policy of social rehabilitation. The complaints then were the same as previous years: bribery, illicit income of weapons, drugs and cell phones, supposed mistreatments, fights, deaths, leaks, overcrowding and mafia that […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that Around of 1,000 inmates have been diagnosed with problems of addictions in the new prison in Guayaquil, so it will be attended by doctors from the Ministry of public health, since these competences were transferred by the Ministry of Justice. If you are looking for a deeper cultural look at life in […]
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The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced Saturday that police officers who improperly handled the investigation of cases of missing persons will be dismissed and criminally prosecuted for corruption. “Police who ask for twenty cents for a phone call, will be immediately separated from the institution, and if possible criminal trial for corruption.” This is […]
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minnpost.com reported…Ecuador is now home to the highest number of refugees in Latin America. But President Rafael Correa subsequently clamped down dramatically on the number of refugees being recognized and began revoking refugee status from some of those who had already received it. Daniela Salazar, a refugee law professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, […]
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insightcrime.org reported that the prison population in Ecuador has risen dramatically in the past four years, a phenomenon tied to the overuse of preventive detention, but also likely linked to the country’s ever-growing importance as a drug transit nation. In October 2007, the country registered 19,500 prisoners, which the country’s prosecutor general called a “record […]
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KSWO.COM reported that the family of August Reiger, a missing Oklahoma teen, has renewed hope in locating him. August Reiger disappeared in Ecuador in June while on vacation with his family, but on Tuesday Ecuador’s President met with the boy’s family to let them know he is making it his personal mission to find the […]
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REUTERS HEALTH reported …In rural Ecuador, when a heavy rain follows a dry spell the rate of diarrhea shoots up by 39%, but when it comes on the heels of lighter rains, the diarrhea rate drops, a new study has found. The researchers monitored 19 Ecuadoran villages, checking in each week over a three-year period. […]
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medscape.com – afolkl, MD, Family Medicine It was strange to observe the disconnect between where I was staying in Quito and the realities of daily life for the people I saw on my rotation. For reasons of cost and convenience, I stayed at a popular hostel in Old Quito, which was full of rich travelers […]
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Reuters reported that a mother has confessed to strangling her newborn baby and tossing the body in a dumpster in a suburb north of New York City, police said on Wednesday. Maria Oliva Guaman-Guaman, 23, was arraigned on Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge, said Paul Modica, police chief in Spring Valley, New York, a […]
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Landscape Structures Inc., a Delano-Minn.-based commercial playground equipment manufacturer, along with its partner Shane’s Inspiration, the only Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization specializing in the design and educational programming of inclusive playgrounds, announce the first inclusive playground in Ecuador. On Friday, Nov. 22, Paúl Granda López, Mayor of Cuenca, and representatives from Landscape Structures and Shane’s […]
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worldpoultry.net reported turkey consumption in Ecuador is a seasonal thing, mainly Christmas. And the season has started with the increase in turkey production and a decrease in imports. According to the National Poultry Farmers Corporation (CONAVE), in 2012 the national turkey production reached 9,492 metric tonnes (mt), or 86% more than the 2006 level of […]
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elcomercio.com.ec reported that deaths from auto accidents is the second leading cause of violent in Quito deaths in 2013, after the accidental (suffocation, poisoning, Burns, etc.). Until last October, the capital recorded 247 deaths on the roads. In 2012, there were 320 victims. The data are part of the monthly reports published by the Observatory […]
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elcomericio.com.ec reported that Surveillance cameras are now installed in 42,100 taxis and buses in Quito, Esmeraldas, Riobamba, Guayaquil, Santa Elena, Cuenca, Santo Domingo, Manta, Portoviejo, Latacunga, Machala, Ibarra, Ambato, Quevedo, Babahoyo and Azogues. In 2014 cameras will be installed in Loja, Carchi, Nueva Loja, Orellana, Pastaza, Morona and Zamora. The safety kits are now in […]
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In order to better serve U.S. citizen and Ecuadorian customers, the U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil is moving to its new and larger building on Calle Santa Ana and Avenida José Rodriguez Bonín in the San Eduardo neighborhood in Guayaquil. Full services at the new building will begin on Monday, December 16, 2013. [Note: the […]
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gidj.blogspot.com reported As you may have surmised from the title, we went from Expats legally residing in Ecuador, to Illegal Aliens living in Ecuador. How? We went over our T-3 Visa time and had not gotten our residency visas started. This can be a very unnerving feeling for someone who resides overseas. I will tell […]
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portalangop.co.ao reported…This was announced Monday in by Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Ricardo Patino. Speaking to journalists at the end of a meeting with the Angolan delegation, the diplomat said contacts are underway for the establishment of embassies in the two respective countries until 2016. “We are working together with the Angolan […]
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buzzfeed.com reported…The government of Ecuador is in the midst of a campaign to reinvent itself as a haven for Internet freedom — even as it continues to crack down on its embattled press. The country also engages in its own NSA-style domestic surveillance, having sought to buy spy equipment from Israeli firms last year according […]
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Inhabitants of Tarqui parish Center are concerned about constant theft of livestock and robberies that are victims. This has generated an atmosphere of insecurity which are intensified by the lack of a police detachment. Read Article THINKING OF LIVING IN ECUADOR? READ THIS BOOK
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larazon.es reported that the national police of Ecuador have arrested the head of the column Daniel Aldana of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC), alias ‘Mario cans’, in the city of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. Troops of the anti-kidnapping unit and extortion (join) arrested the guerrilla leader on Tuesday. The Provincial head of […]
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TELEGRAFO.COM.EC REPORTED The report ‘Social view’ of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) shows that poverty in Latin America ‘slightly’ decreased by 0.3 percentage points in 2013 compared to last year. Currently there are 164 million inhabitants with limited resources, similar to 2012 figure. In Ecuador, according to the ECLAC, the […]
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telecompaper.com reported that Ecuador authorities have ordered Movistar, a cellular phone service in Ecuador to devise a method to improve their phone service in Cuenca Ecuador. Currently the government allows only a limit of 2 percent in dropped phone calls. However, in October of 2013, the drop call rate was 7.36 percent. Read Article This […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that a fire started at 16:20. Initially firefighters deployed a ladder and threw water, whose Jet failed to the 15th floor. Later, when at least ten affected had been evacuated, the soldiers tied lengths of hose, but there was not enough pressure to reach the flames, instead earning ratio. Firefighters in Guayaquil failed […]
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khou.com AP reported…Although physical attacks on journalists are rare in Ecuador, the profession faces increasingly hostility, and international press freedom and human rights groups place the blame squarely on President Rafael Correa.The third-term president is widely popular for generously spending the OPEC nation’s oil wealth on social programs. Nonetheless, Correa has shown little tolerance for […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that One million fake dollars was seized yesterday during a raid by the armed forces in the Metropolitan District of Quito. In a statement, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces said at 14:15 yesterday, on the street and Avenida Juan León Mera country, members of the Department of Arms Control, in coordination […]
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Quito, December 2, 2013 – Fundación Pachamama, an Ecuadorian non-profit organization with 16+ years working in defense of the Human Rights of Amazon Indigenous Peoples and Rights of Nature, exercises its democratic right to freedom of speech and considers it necessary to state its position regarding the XI Round and the opinions expressed in the […]
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Conditions precarious and unhealthy, meat traders operated cattle in camalès clandestine in the cantons Baba and Vinces of Los Rios province. Authorities of Agrocalidad gave with them during an operation. The ticket machines cut the meat on the floor near other animals and together with the mud. According to Jorge Chagerben, owner of a tercena, […]
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Video explaining about events in Loja on July 23, 2012. Subsequently Blanca Nimia Calva, age 50 from Quito was detained and avows her innocence. She was a social worker at a hospital in Quito. This video is a compilation of reports about the robbery and Blanca and efforts of her family and supporters to seek […]
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Ecuavisa.com reported…The Ecuadorian Government announced today that it has decided to close ten consulates and also close five embassies, within a plan of restructuring of the foreign service, informed the Foreign Ministry in a statement. Consulates closed from November 30th are those of San Francisco and New Orleans, in the United States.UU.; Cali and Puerto […]
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ecuavisa.com reported that Russian tourists who were attacked by suspected members of a community inPastaza recovered part of their belongings. The police acted as the mediator of this installment. Inhabitants of the community of Lipuno, located in the jungle of Pastaza, decided to voluntarily return the things that would have taken the couple on November […]
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Ecuador’s Cacao Route has been recognized by National Geographic Traveler in the publication’s listing of Best Trips 2014. The publication highlights the experience of tasting chocolate at its origin of production, with Ecuador’s fine flavor cocao among the best in the world. Experiences along the Cacao Route include a tour through the country’s Pacific Coast […]
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chattanoogan.com reported the outlook for at least 15 globally endangered bird species—including the rare El Oro Parakeet—has just gotten brighter, thanks to a land deal engineered by Ecuador’s Fundación Jocotoco, Rainforest Trust, and American Bird Conservancy. The deal expands Ecuador’s renowned Buenaventura Reserve by 600 acres, to a total of 4,600 acres. Read Article Read: […]
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csmonitor.com reported that more than 500 people have been rescued in Ecuador this year from 20 clinics that physically and psychologically abused patients in the name of ‘treating’ drug addiction, alcoholism, and homosexuality. Electric shocks and beatings are among the documented “treatments,” and two people died at clinics last year. Dozens of people in Ecuador […]
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plenglish.com reported that the National Fisheries Institute sent out an alert today about Shrimp Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS), a disease believed to originate in Asia and considered a threat to this important Ecuadorian industry. The institute’s director, Edwin Moncayo, reported that the disease can be transmitted through the transfer of larvae from one place to […]
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IBARRA. From the railway station of Ibarra went Sunday a convoy with 98 people (tourists) bound to the parish of Salinas. And according to officials of the Regional Railways Ecuador 1 this number is maintained, is great demand by asking citizens to book your shifts in advance. The journey from Ibarra to Salinas has an […]
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elnorte.ec reported from Ibarra. In Imbabura the AIDS clinic took care of 62 patients in HIV AIDS treatment until 2012. This year – according to figures from the Ministry of health – in the province have increased in 13 other cases. Read Article
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Ecuador: Banana exports through the port of Puerto Bolívar increase by 10% The activity at the port of Bolivar, in southern Ecuador, increased by 10% with the addition of a fifth 240 meters by 98.5 meters dock, which required an investment of $ 51.2 million dollars. The provincial director of the Ministry of public works, […]
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Nutriad appoints Biobac to supply shrimp additives in Ecuador, Peru. Nutriad International has recently appointed Biobac S.A. as its strategic partner to supply Nutriad’s specialty additives to shrimp farms and aqua feed mills in Ecuador and Peru. Biobac is a pioneer in the development of biotechnological products for aquaculture in Ecuador. Read Article
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elcomercio.com reported that the transfer of the Integrated urban transport stations operate normally in Cuenca. But users still feel disoriented by the changes of lines and routes to move. The Mobility company of the municipality of Cuenca (EMOV) is information in the North-Central of the bus terminal and the South, in El Arenal. There, it […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that the highway via Cuenca-Azogues – Biblián, that joins the provinces of Azuay and Cañar, is in the process of reconstruction. This road is used by 18 000 vehicles a day. The contractor destroyed some metres from parterre of a stretch of the road to enable an interim step for heavy machinery. Those […]
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Elcomercio.com has identified at least 76 areas in Quito where micro trafficking or retail sales of illicit drugs are being carried out. Key Neighborhoods San Roque – at least 37 marijuana vendors Casco Colonial La Mariscal – nine murders reported so far in 2013 San Roque is a neighborhood nestled in the foothills of the […]
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Rather than accepting the government’s legal reasoning for rejecting their marriage application, one gay couple in Ecuador is challenging both the Constitution and the Civil Code on their road to marriage equality – A rejection from the government will not stop this gay Ecuadorian couple from obtaining a marriage certificate. Santiago Vinces, 23, and Fernando […]
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WW4REPORT.COM REPORTED…The Shuar Association of Bomboiza, in Ecuador’s eastern rainforest province of Morona Santiago, is demanding answers from the government over a Nov. 7 incident in which a member of the Shuar indigenous people was killed in an army operation against illegal gold-miners in the region. The confrontation, at Kukus community on the banks of […]
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1. Be on alert for cloning machines when withdrawing cash at ATM’s. Always cover the keypad when using your pin number. 2. Make sure when you use a credit or debit card that the clerk or individual you gave it to – returns your card and does not give you another card. (called tarjetazo). 3. […]
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publico.es reported that the government of President Rafael Correa is not interested in the migrant “as a business” that produces remittances but as “human” and the goal of this plan is to achieve “family reunification,” Escudero said. Under the plan, migrants wishing to return to their country will also benefit from access to loans to […]
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Quito, November 28 (Andes).- Women’s unpaid work in Ecuador is one of the main gaps that the country has yet to overcome. The Encuesta Específica de Uso del Tiempo (EUT – Specific Time Use Survey) conducted by INEC in 2012 show that out of all the time women devote to work, only 59.7% is paid, […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that Guayaquil is considered ‘white of regional traffickers for the transshipment of cocaine in bulk in sea containers’. This port is also used for the transfer of imported chemicals, some of which are diverted for illicit purposes. Thus concludes the United Nations Office on drugs and crime (Unodc) within its program of control […]
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gonomad.com reported that there must be a good reason why between than 4-5,000 North Americanos now call Cuenca Ecuador their adopted home. Most of the wave began several years ago, when International Living and other outlets declared this city of 400,000 to be a perfect place for retirement. It’s at 8200 feet, there are clean […]
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reuters.com reported that Ecuador mustered bids for just four of 16 oil blocks it offered in its Amazon jungle region which could potentially contain a total of 1.5 billion barrels of crude. A subsidiary of Spain’s Repsol YPF – Repsol Cuba – and China’s Andes Petroleum made offers for three blocks, the awarding of which […]
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Andes.info.ec reported – Quito, November 28 (Andes).- 82% of processed foods sold in Ecuador contain high levels of fat, salt and sugar, and on the other hand, barely 2% of products sold in the country have low levels of those ingredients, reported the Ministry of Public Health as it warns that those critical levels of […]
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oruoracle.com reported that Dr. Stephen Richard Herr passed away Nov. 1 in his new home city of Cuenca, Ecuador. Herr served as a professor of physical and environmental science at Oral Roberts University for 20 years using his experience and humor to inspire students. Even though his time in Cuenca was short, he felt that […]
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DAILYMAIL.CO.UK reported A British woman is being forced to bring up her daughter alone after her medic husband was denied permission to join her in the UK. Elizabeth Celi Parr met Ramiro Alexander Celi Moreno in his native Ecuador – the couple have been married for two years and had their first child, Olivia, 21 […]
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independent.ie reported that China’s aggressive quest for foreign oil has reached a new milestone — near monopoly control of crude exports from OPEC nation Ecuador. Last November, Marco Calvopina, the general manager of Ecuador’s state oil company PetroEcuador, was dispatched to China to help secure $2bn (€1.47bn) in financing for his government. Negotiations, which included […]
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wIKIPEDIA.ORG – The beginnings of Alliance PAIS go back to the year 1999, when Ricardo Patiño impelled, together with Alberto Acosta, Patricia Dávila, Ivonne Benítez and others, the creation of Jubilee 2000 Net Guayaquil, an organization of the civil corporation that investigates, denounces and looks for ways to solve the distressing topic of the Ecuadorian […]
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Amazon Watch FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | November 27, 2013 For more information, contact: Caroline Bennett, +1 510.629.9390, caroline@amazonwatch.org Leila Salazar-Lopez, +1 415.341.5509, leila@amazonwatch.org Joke Baert (Ecuador), +593 99.13.56877, jbaert@pachamama.org.ec Quito, Ecuador – Some 75 protesters gathered outside the Oil and Energy Conference at the Marriott Hotel in Quito yesterday where meetings took place in a […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that from January to October this year, the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (Cedhu) reported 47 cases of femicide nationwide. This term refers to the murder of a woman for being such. “This is a hate crime that goes beyond the perpetrator, is the romantic partner, a relative or a perfect stranger, and […]
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ELCOMERCIO.COM reported that President Rafael Correa yesterday released the long-range aircraft acquired by the State, as announced in the purchase link the Saturday 28 September. He did during his trip to the border town of Ipiales where Binational Cabinet II between Ecuador and Colombia held. This is the jet Dassault Falcon 7X of French house, […]
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(Prensa Latina) President Rafael Correa said today that his government respects private property, but that it is necessary to democratize it. “We do not want to eliminate private property, but it needs to be democratized,” Correa told workers on a banana plantation in the southwest that was seized by the Ecuadorian Treasury because of its […]
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Ecuadoran authorities in helicopters have flown into the heart of the Amazon to rescue an indigenous girl kidnapped in a tribal dispute, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The child was abducted in April after a clash that left an undetermined number of people dead, the ministry said. The dispute was between two indigenous groups, with […]
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In the Ecuadorian town of Papallacta, water is everything. Trout farms supply local restaurants with the steamed fish that headlines almost every menu, and water pumped from the town provides the nearby capital of Quito with around 60% of its drinking supply. But it is the natural hot springs on the slopes above town that […]
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For business travellers, capital city Quito has long played second fiddle to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s financial hub, and according to the country’s Ministry of Tourism, it ranks 11th within South America as a conference and meeting destination. But with the 2016 opening of a $35 million convention centre on the site of the city’s former downtown […]
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bbc.com reported that for the early Spanish colonizers of Latin America, land was easy to come by. Great swathes of the continent were granted to the conquering elites in return for services to the Spanish crown. And in Ecuador, land grants were largely in the sierra – the beautiful, mountainous highlands that are easily accessible […]
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economictimes.indiatimes.com reported that Ecuador’s Socialist President Rafael Correa has often railed against allowing private trading firms to control the country’s oil shipments, a top source of export revenue. Soon after his election in 2006, Correa pledged to cut out middlemen. But on his watch, the opposite has happened. As the OPEC country committed to selling […]
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Janet Hinostroza (Teleamazonas, Ecuador), receives International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. She was recently interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review. How would you characterize the media in Ecuador right now? Your program is covering some controversial topics, but are there other programs like yours? My program is the only investigative show […]
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eluniverso.com reported that the endless commuting by congestion from Cumbayá to Quito, either to get to the workplace, or other formalities need Alejandro Zambrano made design a virtual vehicle sharing mechanism called Socialcar. The idea was born last December with their leader, Eran Hagoun, an Israeli living in Ecuador for 10 years. They decided to […]
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CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations June S. Beittel Analyst in Latin American Affairs July 3, 2013 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R43135 Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations Congressional Research Service Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that OMSC (Metropolitan Citizen Security Observatory registered that between January and October 2013, that 42 individuals have been murdered during robbery attempts in Quito, Ecuador. The figures for the same period in 2012 was 41. There were 4,409 violent robberies compared to 2,130 non-violent robberies reported. Murders related to personal grievances/fight has fallen […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that a child of 7 years who disappeared on November 3 in the canton Chone was rescued by police on Monday 18 in the city of Macas, Morona Santiago, in the Amazon province. The mother of the minor J.C.A.V. said that as they are poor he sent his son to sell Lottery with […]
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The Ecuadorian government has launched an ambitious plan to turn his country into a landmark destination for Chinese tourists, whose flow expected to multiply by 8 the next four years. This was said by the deputy minister of Tourism and Investments of Ecuador, Patricio Tamariz Duenas, who is in Beijing to give impetus to the […]
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wsj.reported that in October, Deloitte interviewed 132 high-level business executives at top companies employing a total of more than 50,000 people. About 60% of those surveyed for the “Barometer of Companies” survey said sales at their companies should grow next year, while only 11.5% see a reduction and 28.5% predict no change. Read Article AN […]
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MEDINDIA.NET reported that as part of a thousand-member medical cohort hired by Ecuador’s government to supplement the local health care system, Cuban doctors will begin arriving in the country in December. Cuba’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the arrangement was signed during a recent visit to Havana by Ecuadoran Health minister Roberto Morales. The […]
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INDUSTRYWEEK.COM reported that Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has promised to resign if Chevron (IW 500/2) proves his government interfered in a trial over Amazon pollution that resulted in a record fine against the U.S. oil giant. “Let Chevron prove that the government interfered in the judgment, and I will resign my post,” Correa said Tuesday […]
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Source: Wikipedia.org – Indigenous peoples in Ecuador are the groups of people who were present in what became the South American nation of Ecuador when Europeans arrived. The term also includes their descendants from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present. Their history, which encompasses the last 11,000 years,[1] reaches into the present; […]
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Victims all had taken yellow marked cabs eluniverso.com reported that over two days, five people suffered the theft of their belongings after getting into yellow cabs, according to complaints filed with the charging attorney. Of the five cases, four occurred in the north of Guayaquil. The first happened on Monday, around 20:00, after Shin N. […]
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reuters.com reported that Ecuador’s oil production should rise to 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of this year, the oil minister said on Tuesday, up from an average of 504,000 bpd last year. Investments by Petroamazonas, the operations division of state oil company Petroecuador, and by private companies were key to the projected […]
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The Blue Jeans capital of Ecuador is the small town of Pelileo Ecuador. It is located between Banos and Ambato and is well worth a trip to find great bargains in all types of jeans. It is a major manufacturing center for this type of attire. From Wikipedia: Pelileo is also known as the Blue […]
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DOINGBUSINESS.ORG REPORTED…. This page summarizes Doing Business 2014 data for Ecuador. The first table lists the overall “Ease of Doing Business” rank (out of 189 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy’s distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and […]
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odysseymediagroup.com reported in a press release that Aeromexico will begin flying from Mexico City to Quito on December 16th. The direct flight is targeted to both business travelers and leisure, and the annual number of passengers, as estimated by the airline, could reach 48,000. The route will operate seven times a week with Boeing 737-700 […]
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GREENLEFT.ORG reported……….The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established at The Hague in 2002 to investigate and prosecute individuals alleged to have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide. Between 2002 and 2009, the Bush administration implemented sanctions on military aid and Economic Support Funds (ESF) assistance against states which refused to […]
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chinadaily.com.cn reported that Ecuador proposes to create an International Criminal Court as part of the regional trade bloc Union of South American Nations (Unasur). The proposal was made by Ecuadoran Attorney General Galo Chiriboga on Monday at the opening of the 21st General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors, being held in Ecuador’s […]
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