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Sangay is the most active andesitic Ecuador and the world, and is located 160 km south of Quito.
Staff of the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School (IGEPN), installed approximately 4 km southwest of the volcano Sangay, a monitoring station consists of a sensor permanent broadband seismic, infrasound sensor and gas monitoring station. Read Article
In the last week, the capital Azuay has dawned with intense cold and the temperature rises at midday or no rainfall. These climatic variations affect the inhabitants of the city, mainly students who started classes last Monday. The basketball Argentina, Natalia Rios, striking him such variation is recorded in the last week. “Practically there are […]
It’s been a month of the seizure of 249.3 kilos of cocaine, registered with Integrated Control Police, in Mascarilla, so that a new seizure with similar characteristics is made in this place. Imbabura Police explained that at approximately 21:30 on Wednesday, in the control mask and for a routine operation, located 240.9 kilos of cocaine, […]
From August 29 to September 2, 406 citations recorded by the agents operating in the city Transit. Failure to use seat belts, bald tires and bad parking, major violations. In five days of inspection, carried out by agents Transit routes in the central, north and south of the city, 406 offenses were recorded. Work Ana […]
The problems of drinking water still in Loja. Some neighborhoods in the city on Monday reported that do not possess the necessary liquid for human consumption. “There’s like washing or the dishes and even taking reservation is intolerable prepare foods stored water,” said Mireya Pinta, Esteban Godoy resident of the neighborhood, who said that since […]
Ecuador’s National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) and the country’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society (MINTEL) on 29 August 2013 approved a resolution on regulatory reform for underground fixed network infrastructure. The adopted resolution introduces a process to amend several regulations governing the provision of telecoms services, via public hearings, with the twin aims of encouraging […]
Ecuador: Agrocalidad buried onions that had been affected by pests Freshplaza.com reported The Ecuadorian Agency for Agro Quality Assurance, Agrocalidad, buried 1,200 bags of onions seized in recent days, after detecting various pests that threaten crops in Loja and Ecuador. The report indicated that authorities found pests, such as fruit flies, larvae, and even a […]
Rafael Correa must back this key initiative instead of blaming the rest of the world for his decision to drill for oil in the Amazon. Ecuador has had the opportunity to bring about environmental change, but this has been thwarted. In mid-August, a plan to leave oil in the ground in one part of the […]
Eluniverso.com reported that NCB said early Monday Portoviejo traveling to Guayaquil on the bus when the cooperative Coactur two kilometers Chain sector, on the border of Guayas and Manabi, five people got up from their seats and threatened with guns. He noted that strangers stole two cell phones, personal documents, a suitcase with clothes and […]
WSJ.com reported that a senior Ecuadorian government official proposed a bill Wednesday that would criminalize insults posted on social networks, opening them up to receive similar treatment to those in the media. The head of the office of the legal secretary of the presidency, Alexis Mera, said he introduced the proposal to the Justice Committee […]
The National Police through the Police Command Zone 5 police control reinforces and strengthens security at the airport in Baltra, with the support of specialized dogs. The review of baggage in different airlines domestic and international flights are performed in order to avoid traffic and illegal transport of wildlife wildlife that threatens the World Heritage […]
Over the past three to four years, express kidnappings have increased by 60 percent. One system to check out the validity of the taxi is Pasajero Seguro. Sending a text to 2468 will give you the details of the cab. The cost is 28 cents. To register for this service you need to go to […]
lahora.com.ec reported that the Ministry of Environment (MAE) suspended four hotels located in the parishes of Atacames and Tonsupa, not to have environmental permits and for failing to comply with the time allowed (30 days) to begin the process of environmental regulation. He did so in the context of cross-sectoral Plan aims to ensure health […]
Lahora.com.ec reported that the National Aquaculture Chamber (CNA) recognizes, through a statement, that the statements of President Rafael Correa were positive, but there was little reaction from ministries in charge of security. The Executive Chairman of the CNA indicates that the shrimp sector feel unprotected against the ravages of crime. Despite the President’s statements, providing […]
Zone 8 Police yesterday seized a rocket launcher military use was in the interior of a home in La Garzota, north of Guayaquil, the officers acted on complaints that they realized reserved unusual movements of the occupants of the house. According to information from the police, the rocket launcher is branded Law, Rochet model HP66, […]
thepeninsulaqatar.com reported… Doha: Ecuador and Qatar are close to signing an agreement to avoid double taxation, a visiting Ecuadoran minister said yesterday. The agreement is expected to be inked when the President of Ecuador visits Qatar in the coming months, Ecuador’s Minister of Revenue Services Carlos Marx Carrasco said during a press briefing. “A three-member […]
Extra.ec reported that a citizen, who made a bank transaction around 16:00 yesterday, fell victim to a sacapintas he arrived at his home, located near the bank of which withdrew $ 2,000. The injured was intercepted by a man, who took the money withdrawn. Residents of Pedro Pablo Gomez and Babahoyo, downtown Guayaquil, police alerted […]
bnamericas.com reported that Ecuador’s government has increased the amount it will invest in infrastructure upgrades at Manabí region’s Manta port by US$10mn, bringing the total to US$80mn. The additional US$10mn will be used to repair the port’s two international terminals as well as the dock for the industrial fishing fleet, according to a release from […]
Rapidtvnews.com reported that Ecuador’s telecom situation has radically changed during the past few years, and the country is seeing an explosion of Internet access points and mobile lines. According to Supertel, Ecuador’s telecom authority, Internet users have grown 37% from last year. Thinking of Moving to Ecuador? Read This Book The March 2013 figures show […]
operating four decades have not resulted in actual poverty reduction and job quality. In the country, the report of June this year the INEC, 23.69% of the population lives in poverty, 8.51% in extreme poverty and more than half of the economically active population (56.39%) is underemployment. Compared to June 2012, poverty fell by 1.65% […]
“There are about 200 people that claimed to have been defrauded by the company,” said Lino Proaño, Commanding General of the Metropolitan District of Quito. According to the complainants to access housing should cancel $ 200 in the first instance, which allegedly were used for administrative expenses. That value separate allegedly allowed a house. Subsequently […]
eluniverso.com reported that the goal of the Ministry of Interior and National Police until 2017 is to increase the number of staff in both institutions. But yesterday, José Serrano Salgado, Minister of Interior, who came to act as a delegate of President Rafael Correa and Suarez General Rodrigo Salgado, commander of the Police, only referred […]
NYTIMES.COM reported… “Vanguardia represented a breath of air in an environment that was becoming more and more asphyxiating, where nearly the totality of media outlets have stopped doing investigative journalism,” Mr. Calderón said. With the silencing of Vanguardia, he said, “the country loses the possibility of having a different version than the official version.” In […]
eLCOMERCIO.COM reported that Henry Jimenez driver and eight passengers were injured in a plane crash that occurred at 11:00 yesterday, Macas, capital of Morona Santiago. The Cherokee model plane, plate HC-800, which belongs to the company Amazon Green, crashed into a pole, which knocked out power to a section of the city. The injured, including […]
ARE YOU THINKING OF MOVING TO ECUADOR? DO YOU LIVE IN ECUADOR? GET THIS BOOK Elcomercio.com reported the first reaction of Catalina Torres to board a yellow cab was curious. Since the seat back of the unit, he saw a camera located on the door that led to her and another to the driver. It […]
Care2.com reported that Ecuador’s draconian abortion laws put the lives of rape survivors at risk, according to a Human Rights Watch report issued this week. As the law stands in the South American country, a woman can only obtain an abortion if she is deemed to be “an idiot or demented,” or if the health […]
From lainformacion.com on August 29, 2013- Ecuadorian Narcotics Police seized more than four tons of cocaine in the city of Guayaquil making this the second largest drug seizure in Ecuador for 2013. The drugs were destined for the Belgian city of Antwerp. In addition to the drug seizure, authorities arrested five Ecuadorians. The seized drugs […]
HAVANATIMES.ORG reported — The type of missing person announcement you see here can be found at practically any bus stop or busy street in Quito. Friends from Cuba often ask me what has struck me the most about Ecuador so far. Well, there you go: its missing persons. I had expected something else to make […]
Guayaquileñans are baffled by their city’s recent ordinance to bars on the Santa Ana hill to forbid dancing. The Las Peñas neighbourhood on the Santa Ana hill is one of Guayaquil’s most central and most popular nightlife destinations. It is also one where some of Guayaquil best live music venues are. Read Article MOVING TO […]
According to figures provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC in Spanish), there are 26 million mobile phones in Ecuador that were imported from 2003 to 2012. Of those, 16 million are in use and about 11 million are unused. Moving to Ecuador? Read this book first That is one of the […]
Ecuador’s National Mining Company (ENAMI EP) and Chile’s state-own Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, are fine-tuning details of a joint venture to explore the Llurimagua reserves in the North of Ecuador, a country with no mining industry to speak of. The deal, reports Reuters, will see Enami holding a 51% stake in the project […]
On September 26, 2012 El Comercio Noticias reported that police in Ecuador have identified the provinces of Pichincha, Imbabura, Sucumbíos and Guayas as the areas showing the greatest incidence of human trafficking in the country, particularly in terms of sexual exploitation. According to the police report, most of the trafficking victims come from Cotopaxi, Manabí, […]
newsok.com reported that August Reiger went missing June 16 while hiking with his family in Ecuador. His parents have returned home to Oklahoma City without knowing what has happened to him. Chris and Randa Reiger came home from Ecuador without their son, August. More than two months after the 18-year-old valedictorian went missing while on […]
Eluniverso.com reported that a group of agents Guayas Judicial Police, casually, apprehended the alleged antisocial dawn on Sunday at least 280 watches stolen from a winery located in the Citadel’s Ceibos in Guayaquil. The goods stolen is Seiko brand. The value of the stolen property is approximately $ 180,000, according to authorities investigating the case.The […]
Eluniverso.com reported that a citizen who works as a taxi driver was injured by two people who snatched $ 1,500 that minutes earlier had withdrawn from a bank. The incident occurred at 11:55 am yesterday when the driver parked his car at a gas station located on the Ring Avenue, to use the toilet facilities.According […]
Quito, August 27 (Andes).-Andes.info.ec reported that two social and workers’ organizations announced today their support for the Executive branch in order for the legislature to authorize the development of the Yasuni fields; this comes after the initiative put forward to the world to receive a compensation of half the cost of its production was not […]
Seenews.com reported that Ecuador’s government has asked the parliament to declare of national interest the oil resources in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) area in the Yasuni national park, in the Amazon region. The state wants to develop oil blocks 31 and 43, the latter called ITT, where there is no information about the presence of isolated […]
info7.com.mx reported the government recommended “Ecuadorian citizens who plan to travel by land to the neighboring country, avoid doing so until the situation returns to normal.” The suggestion takes into account the “difficult situation facing Colombia because of the national strike” and has also had an impact on the international bridge Rumichaca, the main border […]
dealbook.nytimes.com reported that Ecuador, along with Argentina, Venezuela and the Czech Republic, are defendants that appear most often in claims brought by dissatisfied parties, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which tracks worldwide investment. Canada, Egypt, the United States and Poland are next on the list. Corporations triumph in most of […]
CNBC.COM reported that Correa, 50, an economist with a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, entered his third presidential term this year and is widely popular, with a 65 percent approval rating as of June, according to Ecuadorian pollster Cedatos. He has maintained that popularity with a blueprint used by leaders such as […]
bnamericas.com reported that Ecuador’s Quito airport concessionaire Quiport has started drawing up plans for the US$16.5mn phase II of the Quito airport expansion project. The second phase will see the expansion of the passenger terminal to 5,260m2 and will include two new jet bridges. The estimated budget for this portion of the expansion works is […]
Bloomberg.com reported that Ecuador borrowed $1.2 billion from China, its second loan from the country this year to help fund its 2013 budget, according to a Finance Ministry official. China transferred the money to the Andean country on Aug. 12 as part of a “commercial operation” with Ecuador’s state-owned oil company, PetroEcuador, the official, who […]
BBC.CO.UK reported that disabled people in Ecuador were once marginalised, shut up in their homes and considered unemployable. Since 2007, a single government initiative has transformed many of their lives. Before his accident, Angel Quevedo worked as a house painter in Ecuador’s capital city Quito. He was originally from a farm in the Andean highlands, […]
telecompaper.com reported Claro has launched DTH services in Ecuador. Available nationwide, the Claro TV Satelital service is available for a starting price of ECS 18 (VAT not included) per month for the basic package with sports, series and movie channels, including Sony, Warner, Fox, NatGeo, HBO, CineMax, MovieCity, ESPN, Fox Sports. Customers can subscribe to […]
Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. (TSX: V.CGP, Stock Forum) said that it has received from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment the four-year environmental license for the advanced exploration stage of the Cascabel copper-gold property, located in Imbabura Province in northern Ecuador, approximately 120 kilometres north of Quito. The company will now begin preparing drill pads and […]
bbc.co.uk reported….After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator – but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim to mark the precise point between the northern and southern hemispheres. I ended up visiting four different places. […]
Chimborazo, Ecuador: lahora.com.ec reported that a sightseeing boat that carried religous tourists from Quito to Laguna de Colta sank today at noon. in Chimborazo. A firefighter confirmed that there were between 30 and 35 occupants on board. Four children and one adult died. Others were transported to a hospital in Colta for observation. Read Article […]
The following information was obtained from eluniverso.com Cellphones are one of the most widely stolen items in Ecuador. Owners of phones or chips registered in their names are required by law to report the incident to authorities and the cellphone company. However many people choose not to do so. This could spell big trouble for […]
Credit Card cloners arrested, bank employees also being investigated Elcomercio.com.ec reported that a criminal enterprise elaborated from credit cards and identity documents to the stamps of banks to falsify ‘vouchers’ to buying electrical goods. Police said the operation “World Trade Center”, which took place early on Friday in northern Guayaquil, were captured five people allegedly […]
Authorities blame alcohol consumption as contributing factor in some of the deaths. Elcomercio.com.ec reported that since January this year until early August, Cuenca 15 violent deaths recorded. At least three are directly related to alcohol consumption and the acts were committed with a knife, according to the National Police. The consumption of liquor The Third […]
IPSNEWS.NET reported that the Ecuadorean government’s decision to allow oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas of the planet, has caused alarm among environmentalists and indigenous people, who are calling for a referendum on the issue. President Rafael Correa ordered the shelving of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, a plan to […]
Ecuador Trivia: The Lone Ranger and Tonto – Hey it is not Tonto you fool. The Lone Ranger and his sidekick “Tonto” was a very popular television show in the 1950’s and 60’s in Ecuador. However, the truth is that the Lone Ranger’s sidekicks name in the television show was dubbed in as “Toro” (bull). […]
On August 24, 2013 El Diario Noticias reported that an Ecuadoran court has handed down a guilty verdict to three individuals accused of human trafficking. Defendants Carlos Aurelio Palma Minda, Juan Pedro Palma Minda and Zoila María Arce Minda were found guilty of exploiting children and adolescents to sell candy apples in Tarqui. The court […]
Gringotree.com reported (author: Dr. Alan Woods) It took only 20 working days to go from submission of immigration paperwork to the delivery of my Ecuador cédula, thanks to the efficiency and personal service of the Cuenca immigration office. My first step was to gather basic information at an open meeting arranged for the Cuenca expat […]
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Presstv.ir reported that Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has slammed Washington’s imperialistic policy of interference in other countries’ internal affairs, including the US-, and UK-engineered 1953 coup in Iran, Press TV reports. MOVING TO ECUADOR? YOU WILL NEED THIS BOOK “It is clear that there were tremendously disastrous policies. There have been colonization, imperialism and intervention. […]
Economist.com reported……..THE state-run Tren Crucero, which since June has revived its spectacular journey from Quito in the Andes down “The Devil’s Nose” to Guayaquil on the Pacific, charges a discounted $990 for four days of neo-baroque rail luxury. That hardly sounds like the creation of a self-proclaimed socialist government. ARE YOU CONSIDERING MOVING TO ECUADOR? […]
Ecuador’s restrictive abortion laws put the health and even the lives of rape victims in danger, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In late August 2013 the National Assembly is expected to debate major changes to the criminal code. It is unclear whether a proposal from a 2012 assembly discussion of lifting […]
aljazeera.com reported that FARC rebel group says it will examine government proposal that any peace deal must go to referendum. Colombia’s leftist rebel group FARC has said it is putting peace talks in Cuba on pause to examine a government proposal that any peace agreement must be submitted to a national referendum. “In light of […]
Thinking of moving to Ecuador? This book will help your research travel.yahoo.com reported that a colonial jewel of Ecuador, spilling over with cobblestoned streets, well-preserved churches and attractive leafy plazas—all tucked into a verdant Andean valley traversed by four winding rivers—Cuenca wins out as the country’s most idyllic urban locale. From the Inca to the […]
Ecuadorian officials and foreign investors are reopening discussions over the possibility of a deepwater terminal in Posorja, a town about 120km from Guayaquil, Emilio Aguiar, president of maritime chamber CAMAE told BNamericas. In 2006, a US$450mn concession to build and operate a deepwater port with a 15m draft in Posorja was awarded to Spanish group […]
The dreams that many families in Ecuador have for their 14-year-old children are being turned into nightmares by drugs. That’s the average age young people start using drugs in Ecuador, according to the Fourth National Drug Survey by the National Council for the Control of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances (CONSEP), which in 2012 interviewed 30,000 […]
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has threatened to force the country’s newspapers to go digital-only to “save paper.” The decision comes soon after the president was challenged in the press for abandoning a plan to keep Yasuni National Park off limits for oil drilling in exchange for a $3.6 billion payment from international donors, Fox News […]
The head of Ecuador’s intelligence agency has asked the legislature to draft a bill that would outlaw the publication of classified documents, amid growing concerns over a government clampdown on the media. Pablo Romero, the director of Ecuador’s intelligence agency SENAIN, asked the Justice Committee of Ecuador’s National Assembly on August 8 to draft legislation […]
MOVING TO ECUADOR? GET THIS BOOK IBTIMES.com reported Following Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other nations in Latin America, Ecuador has become the latest country in the region to face street protests, after President Rafael Correa made the unpopular decision to allow oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve. The decision sparked protests that began last […]
Yahoo (AP) reported that Ecuador’s combative president is threatening to try to force the country’s newspapers go all-digital as a way to save paper. Rafael Correa has long had a prickly relationship with Ecuador’s opposition-owned newspapers, and his Twitter statement Monday is a jab at papers backing a proposed referendum to block oil exploration in […]
Guayaquil Ecuador could face ($3.2 billion) in Ecuador The world’s 136 largest coastal cities could risk combined annual losses of $1 trillion (750 billion euros) from floods by 2050 unless they drastically raise their defences, a study warned Sunday. World Bank economist Stephane Hallegatte and colleagues composed a loss risk scenario based on city population […]
On August 13, the United States Commerce Department declared its intention to raise import taxes on shrimp from India, Ecuador, Vietnam, Malaysia and China in order to offset export subsidies that those countries provide for their shrimp industries. Thailand and Indonesia were also considered but were ultimately exempted from the new duties. Read Article Moving […]
Rawstory.com reported that Ecuador’s firebrand leftist President Rafael Correa lambasted US oil giant Chevron as an enemy for allegedly besmirching his country as part of a lengthy court battle over Amazon pollution. Last year an Ecuadoran court ordered Chevron to pay $19 billion dollars for polluting the rain forest. The case is still alive and […]
Newyorker.com reported…..A crusading lawyer helped Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron. But did he go too far?Texaco managed oil extraction in the Oriente region of Ecuador for twenty-three years. When Chevron acquired the company, in 2001, it inherited a lawsuit over environmental damage. The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, […]
uk.reuters.com reported that Ecuador will open up part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, President Rafael Correa said on Thursday. Correa launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni area of the […]
Author: Nicholas Crowder I love to write and I really like to put words down about Ecuador. Much of my adult life has been spent studying this tiny emerald country. When I first visited in 1980, there was really only one or two books that covered traveling there. I did find a number of books […]
independent.co.uk reported that a new species of mammal has been identified in the jungles of Ecuador – the first new carnivorous creature to be discovered in 35 years. The beast’s appearance is not altogether unfamiliar however, as it first went on display in museums over 100 years ago, but had always been mislabelled. The olinguito […]
On August 15, 2013 El Colombiano Noticias reported the arrest of two Africans and four Colombian citizens on charges of human trafficking. The arrests occurred Monday in Bogotá, Medellin, Turbo and Gamarra. The suspects are accused of involvement in a criminal organization that trafficked immigrants to Panama with a final destination in the United States. […]
On August 14, 2013 Infosur Noticias reported the arrest of twelve suspects and the rescue of nine undocumented immigrants after Colombian authorities dismantled an international human trafficking network in the department of Antioquia. The traffickers were planning to transport the immigrants, five Nepalese and four Bangladeshis, to Panama where they would then be sent to […]
ONE BOOK THAT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY EXPAT OR FUTURE EXPAT IN ECUADOR 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 Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and […]
Victims headed to U.S. were Nepalese, Bengali and Hindi Coordinated action between the police forces of Ecuador and Colombia in Quito allowed the dismantling of a band dedicated to trafficking in persons, particularly of Asian, whose final destination was the United States, officials said Monday. The Interior Ministry said six suspects Ecuador Nepalese origin, Bengali […]
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On August 12, 2013 Universo Noticias reported the arrest of six trafficking suspects during a police operation in Quito. The suspects, which include both Indians and Colombians, are believed to belong to an international trafficking gang. Police also rescued 12 suspected victims of human trafficking during the raids on six homes and 4 commercial locations. […]
individual.com reported that-Commodities trading house Armajaro Trading Group Ltd. said Monday that it has stopped buying cocoa from farms in Ecuador and is reviewing the rest of its operations there. Armajaro opened its office in Ecuador in 2009 to cocoa from growers’ groups and to export the beans to the U.S., Europe and Japan, according […]
dowjones.com reported that Ecuador’s government is planning public-sector investments worth about $47 billion from 2013 through 2017, the country’s Planning Secretary Pabel Munoz said Monday. Mr. Munoz said at a press conference the resources for the forecasted investment will come from taxes, oil revenues and external financing, but didn’t give further details. Thirty-five percent of […]
Eleven suspected cases of swine flu were reported in the city of Loja, of which 10 were negative, ie, it was other respiratory viruses. The other case it was confirmed as positive, according to the zonal coordinator of Health, Juan Carlos Ramon, that person would have acquired influenza A H1N1 in Quito. “Wine (Loja) and […]
From lainformacion.com on August 9, 2013- The Ecuadorian Navy seized 537 kilos of cocaine and arrested three people aboard a small motorboat in the northern waters of the Galapagos. The seizure was the result of coordinated efforts between the Ecuadorian Coast Guard Command and the U.S. Coast Guard. The boat was found 192 miles of […]
Miamiherald.com reported that Ecuador’s airwaves are about to undergo a domestic invasion. Thanks to a recently passed communications law, half of all music played on the radio will have to be homegrown. The move has station managers scrambling for local talent, musicians tuning up their guitars and long-languishing record companies dusting off their equipment. The […]
(BBC World). The armed forces of Israel announced a plan to sell military equipment used to developing nations to reduce their size and meet budget cuts. According to the Ynet website potential customers tanks, aircraft, ships, vehicles and other weapons systems that the Israelis will be sold in Latin America, Africa and Asia, especially countries […]
eLCOMERCIO.PE reported that at least $ 50,000 in illegal fuel daily across the border. PNP recognizes that should get 100 agents there is a change. At least fifteen gangs involved in the gas contraband business. At least seven border crossings involved. Aguas Verdes, Tumbes , 6:35 pm The traffic flow that is born in the […]
From the March 4, 2011, which came into force Law on Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells, all Ecuadorians are over 18 donors at death. Are exempt from the rule in life who express the opposite and is posted to your card. According to the Civil Registry, 96% of cedulas is in favor […]
Guayaquil’s Mayor, Jaime Nebot, who has been in office 13 years, lashed against Ecuadorian president this Wednesday in a press release broadcast by two private TV stations since 7:50 local time (00:50 GMT). Nebot, who stated through Ecuavisa and Canal Uno that there is no constitutional hindrance to run again for the Mayoral seat intensified […]
ANDES.info.ec reported The cable will be implemented by the company Telconet in coordination with the national government. Photo: Telconet Quito, 09 Aug (Andes). – Ecuador implement a 7,000 km submarine cable will improve in 160 times the capacity of the Internet to consume throughout Ecuador, which will enable the speed in terms of telecommunications services […]
APORREA.ORG reported that The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, sent to the National Assembly a legal initiative, developed by the Alianza País (AP), which seeks to amend the Constitution and establish the right of all citizens for reelection continuous in all elected offices. Correa’s party, which has a majority in Congress, prepared the proposal encouraged […]
Despite the increase in passengers at the airport of Cotopaxi, which in recent days reached 20%, and climatic problems impeding the Mariscal Sucre Airport located in Tababela run smoothly, no new routes are specified or agreements with other airlines to operating from Latacunga. Entrepreneurs and tourism demand management lack administrators terminal. from Guayaquil: “We see […]
Past 15:40 of August 8, 2013, then rain and a hail in the center, south of Quito and the valleys. According to a report from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi) this climatic condition occurs due to moisture that entered the country from the southern part of Colombia, facilitated by wind direction. Read […]
Fear that many customers will convert to electricity Augusto Salazar lives of the distribution of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) since 1973. With a shop located across the street from the church of Santa Clara de San Millan, in the northern center of Quito, during the last 40 years has faced the same problems to market […]
LAHORA.COM.EC REPORTED….According to a press Fundamedios Ecotel had two years administrative proceedings initiated by the National Council of Telecommunications (Conatel), to reverse the station frequency by technical inconsistencies. On February 10, 2011, the Conatel issued a resolution in which it was resolved “and declaring unilateral early termination of the concession contract signed March 3, 2009”. […]
The Thursday morning National Police confirmed that explosives were found on the exterior of the Bank of Guayaquil in Vinces, Los Ríos. Five blocks were cordoned off to check the engine. Through Twitter several people reported that the alleged bank robbers took hostages and threatened with a bomb after being surrounded by police. Read Article […]
Elcomercio.com reported that the Ministry of Defence confirmed that six people were killed and one was wounded during a clash reported this morning between the military and alleged Colombian rebel groups in Puerto Mestanza (Sucumbios). At a press conference, authorities c onfirmaron that one of the deceased ‘s Lt. Diego Maldonado, 28. In addition there […]
Elcomercio.com reported in less than five years, the leadership of the ruling party changed its position on one of the most interesting issues raised in the Assembly of Montecristi: reelection. Yesterday, the dome of A. Country raised publicly amend the constitution to allow indefinite reelection of the authorities. 100 POINTS TO CONSIDER BEFORE MOVING OR […]
ammunition, explosives and drugs often carried across the border undetected ElComercio.com reported: Steps illegal between Ecuador and Colombia, facilitate the smuggling of goods entering and leaving the country. According to the Armed Forces, in the 176 miles of border shared Carchi (Ecuador) with Nariño (Colombia) there are over 25 bridges unofficial. Paul S., native of […]
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lifted its outlook on Ecuador, saying the South American country could reduce its dependence on oil revenue in part by accessing international capital markets. S&P affirmed Ecuador’s sovereign credit rating at B, five notches into junk territory. The outlook was revised to positive from stable. The ratings firm believes that […]