The Ecuadorian government, under the order of the president, Wednesday changed its defense and agriculture ministers. Current Defense Minister Javier Ponce replaced Santiago Leon as agriculture minister after President Rafael Correa made the appointment, presidential spokesman Fernando Alvarado said via Twitter. Current Vice Agriculture Minister Miguel Carvajal will become minister of defense, said the spokesman. […]
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Nearly 411,000 poppy plants, raw materials for producing drugs such as heroin, were destroyed in raids by soldiers and policemen in the province of Chimborazo, said Tuesday the Ecuadorian army. The poppy plants were located between licit crops, so “it was not ‘weed’ as said the residents of the community but were planted in a […]
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The explosion at a mine in the area known as Playas, The Progresso of the parish, county Passage this morning caused the death of two people. Miners Chauza Edison Javier Moreno, 21, and Fernando Jaramillo Andres Maldonado, 24, are the victim of the explosion at 06:00 on Tuesday. Co-workers of the victims said about 115 […]
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A fire occurred at 06:10 on Tuesday in a warehouse of the local fast food Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) El Mall del Sol, north of Guayaquil, causing no injuries or fatalities. Police officers from the Community Police Unit (UPC) Vernaza alerted the Fire Department on the situation, after seeing flames coming from an air vent […]
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Offenders who covered their faces with balaclavas carrying guns and dressed caliber of police, stole more than a ton of drugs in the warehouses of the National Council of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances (Consep). According to unofficial information, theft of drugs, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana, have occurred early Friday when the rogues arrived in […]
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The National Police has 2 100 places for men and women who wish to join the institution. The implementation phase and instruction began last Friday and runs until Sunday 29 April. National Director of Police Education, Marcelo Rocha, reported that the selected applicants will play a training process for 12 months and get the title […]
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An operation carried out by members of the police last Thursday resulted in the arrest of 22 people suspected of committing robberies at traffic lights. The arrested were taken to the Judicial Police, where it was reported that the operation was the result of intelligence work in which it was determined that the suspects were […]
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Colombian, Peruvian and Spanish groups are predominantly foreign detainees in prisons in Ecuador, said on Saturday President Rafael Correa, who denied that the figure obey the government policy of eliminating visas, effective from 2008. This “is not the result of the migration policy of the Colombian and Peruvian Ecuador because the CAN (Andean Community) do […]
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Counternarcotics Police yesterday presented a consignment of more than 844 kilos of cocaine seized between Thursday and yesterday at the seaport of Guayaquil Simon Bolivar. According to research, the drug was bound for Canada and Europe. The first of these actions are called ‘Gandhisha’, by the name of the exporting company involved. The drug was […]
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The blood that left the face of a man who was the victim of an assault was on the outskirts of a financial institution, located at Columbus Avenue and Calle Diego de Almagro. Three heavily armed criminals on a motorcycle attacked in the form of ‘sacapintas’ a couple who wanted to deposit $ 3,000 in […]
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Some pictures that you can see military Ecuador with a decapitated dog, spread in social networks, have caused rejection in the country and by the Army itself, which announced Thursday that punish those responsible. In the images you see soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms smiling while posing with the animal’s body and head. “Those involved in […]
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The death toll from the outbreak of dengue suffering Ecuador amounted to five, while those affected are now 4,683, said the Ministry of Public Health in a statement. Further, warned that “in the coming weeks are extraordinary conditions favorable for transmission,” due to high rainfall in the country and coastal flooding. Of the nearly 4,700 […]
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The 145 passengers on a flight Tame the company, which went from Cuenca to Quito this morning, had to make a stop in Guayaquil unusual. The Airbus 320 plane had a mechanical problem, so the pilot requested an emergency landing at the airport, Jose Joaquin de Olmedo. Nicolas Romero, manager of the Guayaquil Airport Authority, […]
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More than $ 7 million invested by the Government to government advertising between January and February this year, as stated in the report of the Monitoring Centre for Citizen Participation Corporation (CPC). The report reveals that in January 3’233 spending was 976, while in February was 794 4’123. This represents nearly a million more spending […]
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Ecuador’s government on Thursday closed 14 universities due to “poor quality” of education they offer, after evaluating them for a year and a half, affecting 38,000 students. Entities today woke police presence and a sign placed on the doors that read: “Suspended due to lack of academic quality.” “This is an academic fraud is a […]
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Call me naive, but I had thought the world as a whole was determined to keep the waters and islands of the Galapagos as unspoiled and undisturbed as possible. And although I was aware that “liveaboard” diving was practiced by small ships venturing into these sealife-rich waters, I somehow felt that the creation of resort […]
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SAN LORENZO, Ecuador, April 12 (UNHCR) – Senor Padilla, his wife and two of their children escaped to the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo in late February, joining the growing number of people fleeing fresh violence in nearby Colombia. “We came because two paramilitary factions and one guerrilla group were wreaking havoc in the […]
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ECUADOR Author – Nicholas Crowder ——————————————– One of the key elements that should go into the decision making process in considering a move to Ecuador or any country is having an understanding of the national criminal justice system. This should provide the individual a snapshot of what citizens or residents can expect […]
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The Banking Board on Thursday issued the resolution that sets the rates authorized for renovation and / or affiliation of credit cards for the second quarter. The document establishes the maximum values for the plastic money, ranging from $ 2 to the basic cards, up to $ 250, which is the ceiling for the type […]
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While performing a search flight Aeromarítima on Monday April 9, the Naval Aircraft AN-236 detected two boats carrying drums of fuel, about 15 miles north of Green River, Esmeraldas. The Coast Guard boat “River Conambo” which was on a routine patrol near this area, conducted the inspection of the two boats. According to naval staff […]
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At 09:45 yesterday landed at the airport in Cotopaxi one ATR 42-500 aircraft to Tame, from Guayaquil. With the arrival of this flight, the airline launched the operation Guayaquil Latacunga Latacunga-Coca-Guayaquil. Tame and enter a market in which previously operated Saereo, which suspended its operation to the competition generated by the public carrier received from […]
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According to the victim, she was abducted the night of April 3 when he took a taxi to go to the Santa Barbara Chillogallo and two people jumped on the vehicle so the driver deviated from the route and led to a house in the street and passage Carapungo 126 OE-9C, the Biloxi area in […]
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Increased demand for organs in Ecuador is horny, of which 74 membranes are imported and 44 domestic, according to data from the National Organ and Tissue Transplantation (Ontot). Also, this year, there are records of 35 cases of kidney transplants, one with a living donor, six liver and a bone marrow transplant. In the first […]
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A police operation conducted in Ipiales (Colombia), near Tulcan seized 510 sticks of dynamite brand Explogel, 1 800 detonators and 600 meters ineléctricos wick, which were to be used in terrorist attacks in the border zone. The war material of Ecuadorian origin was abandoned in five cans of lard in the field of Rumichaca International […]
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Mauricio Peña, national director of the National Traffic Agency (NTA), decided to close for a month Transit Agency of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas due to several complaints about the alleged involvement of officials working in that department with a dedicated network the fraudulent registration of stolen vehicles abroad. Peña also decided to terminate the […]
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The Ecuadorian Social Front, which unifies several ministries of the country, is now advancing in social investment programs with emphasis on child care, said the head of Social Inclusion, Doris Soliz. The objectives of this agency include the direct care to more than 140,000 children up to three years old and the aim of reaching […]
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The Ecuadorian volcano Tungurahua, located in the Andes, has high activity and ash ejected affecting populations around, said the Geophysical Institute (IG) of the University of Quito. “The activity of the Tungurahua volcano showed a slight increase from the previous days,” said an IG report released to the media. Furthermore, explained that there were several […]
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The National Federation of Journalists (Fenape) has a stand against the issue of communications law and argues that what should be done is to “take it to the shredder,” said Marcelo Larrea commented, head of the guild. The 124 members of Ecuador’s National Assembly will vote on Wednesday on a controversial media law in Ecuador, […]
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The Turkish Yarpuz Mustafa, 51, was sent to the hospital emergency Luis G. Davila Tulcan, for he had swallowed a capsule with cocaine. The doctors I spoke because his life was at risk, said Carlos Castro, head of the Police Command Carchi. The stranger next to another of his countrymen, Mehmet Simsek, 34, were arrested […]
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Otto Reich and Ezequiel Vázquez Ger’s reckless and illogical column (“How Ecuador’s immigration policy helps al Qaeda”) says more about the authors’ desire to baselessly attack the government of Ecuador than their ability to offer readers any substantial insight into foreign policy. Reich and Vázquez Ger routinely stumble over irrational arguments in attempts to undermine […]
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With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returning to Cuba this week for more treatment in his battle with cancer, much speculation has begun about the future of his authoritarian, anti-American populist model in Latin America. Will his movement die with him, or will someone be there to pick up the banner when the strongman falls? Read […]
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Ecuador Ecuador Report – Death by Non-Natural Causes (From 1-2011 To 12-2011) Date City Cause of Death 12-30-2011 Santa Elena, Ecuador Drowning 12-25-2011 Guayaquil, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Auto 11-03-2011 Salinas, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Pedestrian 09-09-2011 Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador Homicide 08-04-2011 Agrio, Sucumbios, Ecuador Drowning 07-14-2011 Santo Domingo, De Los Colorados, Ecuador Vehicle Accident […]
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Studies Program Coordinator City of FLACSO Ecuador, an expert on public safety, urban policy, local development and planning. At home and outside the borders, the power of criminal organizations have increased at an accelerated rate, says Fernando Carrión, researcher and expert on security issues. In his opinion, Ecuador has become an international platform for drug […]
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During journey made by Assemblyman Galo Lara, a member of the Oversight Committee and Political Control of the National Assembly, noted that the radar could YLC-18 M-that is borrowed, is operational, while the other YLC-18-which was purchased -, is not in operation….However, outside the fines should be considered provided that the radar is still not […]
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Javier Leon Olavarria, Peruvian ambassador in Quito, said the two countries seek ways of mutual support before the natural disasters that may occur. The Peruvian ambassador in Quito, Javier Leon Olavarria, said Ecuador and Peru seek ways of mutual support to natural disasters that may occur in the border areas in order to serve the […]
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Peru and Ecuador will support one another disaster on the border Javier Leon Olavarria, Peruvian ambassador in Quito, said the two countries seek ways of mutual support before the natural disasters that may occur. The Peruvian ambassador in Quito, Javier Leon Olavarria, said Ecuador and Peru seek ways of mutual support to natural disasters that […]
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The Government is concerned about these illegal networks to the point that on February 27 last, the Security Minister Homero Arellano asked to Armed Forces, “the patriotic participation” in the fight against these facts. That request did verbal to the troops of the Eloy Alfaro Military School as stated in the Comprehensive Safety Plan that […]
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Found two bodies and two survivors of a shipwreck in Ecuador Found two bodies and two survivors of a shipwreck in Ecuador However, three fishermen remain missing from the accident that occurred on Wednesday when the ship was sailing 180 miles south of Isabela Island and was hit by two waves. Read Article
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ciudadaniainformada.com/ Reported seven missing after a fishing boat sank in the Galapagos. The Captain of the Port of Manta, said the boat had been hit by two large waves and sailed 180 miles south of Isabela Island.
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President Rafael Correa, has reported that there are many interested in investing in the project of the Pacific Refinery in the province of Manabi. “There is strong interest from Chinese companies, has presented the project to many countries around the world …. we are still presenting the attractions, soon we expect to obtain adequate harvest […]
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A survey conducted by Opinion Profiles in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, 24 and March 25, indicates that 80.5% of the respondents characterized as positive management of the president, Rafael Correa. The figures reveal that 21.8% believe that management is very good president, while 58.7% qualifies as good. In comparison, the Head of State […]
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A brutal slaying occurred Tuesday night in a rural parish of Quito. A corpse with a metal pipe running through his mouth and had injuries on his body found inhabitants of the area. In the midst of a thick fog and a remote was made the finding of the body of Jacinto Eduardo Garcia Ponce, […]
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Consumer prices in Ecuador rose 0.90% in March driven by an increase in the value of food and clothing, the government said Thursday. The index in the third month of the year is higher than 0.78% to 0.34% in February and March 2011. The rate is the third highest reported for the month in the […]
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He is one of the prepaid service subscribers in the last hours recorded cell lines that comprise between 94% (12.64 million customers), who until yesterday were registered. From today, 6% of customers who failed the trial, which began in July 2011, will begin to see restricted services. Yesterday, the telecommunications minister, Jaime Guerrero, confirmed that […]
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Nervous and breathy voice 32 of Duran Judge Ricardo Pimentel La Mota said his innocence. The temporary judge Splicing Cesar Vargas Alvarado, opted for silence. Both were arrested yesterday by members of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Police Intelligence after the president of the Provincial Court of Justice, Francisco Garcés Morales issued the arrest warrants […]
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The department also found a half kilo of cocaine, a bulletproof vest and a .38 caliber firearm. Before the explosion, a subject left the house of Porta and embarked on a red car, but no evidence to determine whether it was Balseca or anyone else, according to Aguilar. His body remains in a morgue refrigerator […]
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There are 27 catches or seizures in the first quarter of this year. The smugglers bring goods without paying duty and enter neighboring Colombia from clandestine step, in order to evade the controls, said Pedro Guerrero, head of Customs Yahuarcocha Detachment. MERCHANDISE. Yahuarcocha detachment personnel made operational by means of first and second order, which […]
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Tired of insecurity, people in the streets Juan Pio Montufar and Manuela Cañizares, near El Mercurio, ask the Police often deploy controls. One of the residents, whose identity has been kept for safety, charged that wily thugs entered the courtyard of a house, although in the enclosure is an electric fence and seized a computer […]
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“Cuenca has become no man’s land …” explained Councilman Wilson Munoz, president of the Security Commission, before the eight murders in the first four months of 2012. He said the manner in which the anti-social act is an indication that they are organized gangs, whose leaders, in some cases, lead from inside the rehabilitation center. […]
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Caution. This is currently the most repeated recommendation when traveling through the country’s roads. By force of winter damage are presented of various sizes in most of the road network. Drivers, police, security guards and the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) warn of these problems. In some ways it is convenient to travel […]
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Starting tomorrow, the cellular operators will begin to restrict services to prepaid lines that are not registered. This, once it expires on April 5 the first deadline set by the National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) to allow subscribers to record their data. Others who failed to register their cell phone can not make calls, use the […]
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The hypothesis of death by burning Ulysses Canadian Richard Porta, which occurred last Thursday, would be discarded after the autopsy, the alien determined that the cause of death was two stab wounds. Canadian Richard Ulises Porta Attorney William Aguilar, who yesterday made the recognition of the scene, said the results of the autopsy has not […]
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ngel Lopez, a national Arab-Colombian and Ecuadorian Wilson Garcia were the first two passengers who sailed yesterday on the TAME flight after two years he returned to cover the route between Tulcán and Quito. The manager of Tame, Rafael Farias, who traveled from Quito to Tulcan, to reopen the route, said the flights will be […]
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FROM FP – Terrorism, as the United States has learned at a high cost in recent years, comes in many forms and from unexpected sources. The government of Ecuador has once again crossed the line between irresponsible policies and ideologically driven actions that have created a serious security problem not only for its citizens but […]
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Quito, 02/abr/2012.- From April 1, 2012 marks the second phase of the breeding program that PE fuel Petroecuador began in November 2011, as announced by the General Manager of the company, Mr. Marco Calvopiña. The program substantially improves the octane of gasoline, so that the quality Extra rises from 81 to 87 octane and Super, […]
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Quito, Ecuador 02/abr/2012.- expected to cooperate with Iran’s oil sector with the entry into a consortium in Venezuela and the Persian country offer to invest in a refinery in its territory, despite sanctions against Tehran , said today the manager of the state company Petroecuador, Marco Calvopiña. Read Article
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, will not attend the Sixth Summit of the Americas, to be held in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias from 14 to 15 April next, due to the absence of Cuba, announced today. Read Article
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A three-judge appellate panel has again denied — for the fourth time — a motion by Chevron Corp. to block the Republic of Ecuador from enforcing an $18 billion judgment against the company. In a decision released last week, the Ecuadorian panel ruled that the oil giant was not entitled to use an order from […]
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According to the Census of Population and Housing 2010, 10 882 students from other countries traveled to Quito to continue their education. The number of people who moved to Argentina, 77% did so for studies. To that end, flew to Germany 59%. The two countries receptan the highest percentages of students, according to the number […]
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Ecuador is facing large-scale mining with a shortage of professionals in the field. According to official data, in the coming years the country will need 300 mining engineers and geologists to address the exploitation of metals. But a year graduate no more than 40 professionals. The absence must be covered, the early years, with foreign […]
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In Quito, 34 664 people between 18 and 35 have no steady job and 257 256 are underemployed, according to the latest census. Carola Zaragoza is commercial engineer, graduated from the Army Polytechnic School for two years and no one hires. He has performed more than 30 interviews and still waiting for the phone call. […]
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This is a rustic park along the coast of Ecuador which is often overlooked by tourists. This video is not professional – but demonstrates the beauty of the area.
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The agency will bring together relief offices in Cuenca called Ecu 911 and will be inaugurated on April 12, date of founding of the city, has its head, it’s about Fernando Figueroa. Figueroa served as director of the Security Council and is currently the deputy chief of the Fire Department of the city, also a […]
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Magnitude 4.7 – ECUADOR 2012 March 29 23:57:20 UTC Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 23:57:20 UTC Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 06:57:20 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 1.983°S, 78.466°W Depth 72.9 km (45.3 miles) Region ECUADOR […]
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The president, Rafael Correa, announced this morning signed the decree which declares state of emergency in the province of Azuay. Correa visited this afternoon several sections of the city of Cuenca, which have been badly affected by the rains. He indicated that citizens affected by the winter in Metro Manila will be part of a […]
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The arrest of a woman and the attempted assault of the mayor of La Concordia, Walter Ocampo, among other incidents, left last Tuesday’s visit of President Rafael Correa and several secretaries of state to the canton Quinindé (Esmeraldas). The detainee would niece of the late politician Jorge Chiriboga Guerrero, which seems to have made obscene […]
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Last year, 2,193 Cubans were registered on a national scale (1 450 have non-immigrant visas and immigrant visas 743 have). Of the 2 193, 46% are in temporary visits Ecuador for sport, health or science (studies). 26%, however, it is for people who are married to Ecuadorian or have a family member. 8% are professionals […]
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The unit number 30 of the bus carrier Turismo Oriental, which departed from Cuenca to Macas at 05:00, crashed in the El Pescado, 20 minutes of Mendez, on the road Guarumales-Mendez. In the offices of the company gave no information on the subject and indicates only that the directors traveled to the site. John Lamb, […]
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“Listen now to the point of change commands (kill) some of them all, but fast.” That was one of the found text messages on cell phone Luje Paul Villegas, one of the four detainees for research, the last Monday for the murder of Daniel Soria, which occurred the morning of December 9, 2011 in the […]
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Platform Affected by Mortgage (PAH) failed to stop the eviction of the Ecuadorian immigrant. They did it on two previous occasions. A dozen riot police bowed to twenty activists seeking to prevent the commission from entering the court building in Madrid humble district of Tetuan. Read Article
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Some 27 dead and thousands of evacuees left the winter to hit with force to country, where six provinces have been hardest hit, sources said today of the National Secretariat for Risk Management, SNGR. The source told Efe that there have been 58 people injured and have evacuated more than 6,000, while 261 houses have […]
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One person died, three were seriously injured and over a hundred homes were flooded by the collapse of sewers, streams, creeks and rivers overflowed in over seven areas of southern basin, after a torrential downpour with hail and lightning storm that recorded from 16:00 on Tuesday. At 20 minutes into the rain Fire Basin on […]
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The Ecuadorian government will launch this year a project to develop a culture of peace on the border with Colombia, as part of comprehensive security policy in the area, reported the Minister of Culture, Erika Sylva. She said that intervene in areas of the three provinces bordering Colombia: Esmeraldas (Costa), Carchi (Andes) and Sucumbíos (Amazon). […]
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Rainfall started in January and still not stop. The government of Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency in six provinces. There millions in losses. About three thousand of the victims and survivors living in shelters, 1,554 houses and other relatives, said the National Risk Management (SNGR, Civil Defense) in a report provided to the […]
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Facing increased financial risk in Latin America, Chevron has launched a corporate espionage campaign designed to intimidate and track the whereabouts of the lead lawyers who recently won an $18 billion judgment for environmental damage against the oil giant in Ecuador’s courts, said the Amazon Defense Coalition. The purpose of the espionage campaign — being […]
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Humberto Cholango, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), expressed its solidarity with all the equipment that accompanies and leads the case against the company Chewron-Texaco and claims that the acts of violence, intimidation, espionage that have occurred in recent days will not stop their actions until justice is done in this […]
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On Tuesday opened the 85th session of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) in Guayaquil. At the meeting, attended by representatives of the world’s cocoa, stressed the importance of ‘gold nugget’ to the Ecuadorian economy. The Vice President Lenin Moreno, gave welcoming remarks to the speakers and attendees who participate in the meeting which will run […]
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Juan Perez, a resident of the sector,Ciudadela del Chofer said it requires the continued presence of law enforcement. Some houses have alarms and electric fences to prevent theft in homes, the neighborhood policy rarely meets the industry to address security issues, he said. Read Article
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Luis Miguel Chilán Macias, 20, a native of the province of Los Rios, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the Colombian Victor Arias Alfonso Salazar, 24, on Thursday night, inside the brothel ” Girls Girls “, installed in the neighborhood Cayambe. Javier Barrera, Chief Political Basin, said the arrest took place in the hostel Nice, […]
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The Basin Plan City University proposing the establishment of a Virtual Library for Basin allowing unrestricted access of all people the rich documentary heritage which has the city in its public and private libraries. Read Article
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RTU channel facilities in Guayaquil were attacked today. This happened about two o’clock, when three men posing as painters who engaged in the place surprised the security guard and entered the offices where they stole editing equipment, plasma and computers. Read Article
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I call attention to the CTE (Ecuador Transit Commission) so please give us a respite to those who live on the road to the coast, with respect to the use of radar. Radars placed taking photos of vehicles in the residential area of this pathway. Example, I had a family event a few months ago, […]
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Although the government insists qualify as a “failure” which toured the indigenous march in fifteen days eight provinces (left El Pangui, Zamora Chinchipe, on March 8 and arrived in Quito on 22), that shaped a movement new political landscape dominated by President Rafael Correa over the past 5 years. That is the reading of analysts […]
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The prosecutor investigating alleged irregularities vehicle registration in the National Transit Agency (NTA) of Santo Domingo. According to information provided by the judicial body, there are vehicles that would have legalized imported with false invoices, contracts questioned and tampering with the serial frame. On Friday afternoon, the Judicial Police along with the tax shift, Victor […]
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The Costa Rican police rescued four children and a young Ecuadorian who were victims of a trafficking network and that were in the custody of a Colombian and Dominican, said the judiciary. The children, two sisters aged 7 and 8, and two cousins aged 11 and 16 and an 18, were rescued by police officers […]
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After an intense firefight in the area of Las Lomas Street, between Third and Fourth in Central Urdesa, police failed to stop at approximately 20:45 on Thursday, three suspects, including a disabled person. Although no one was injured nor among the officers or the suspects, the police patrol UVC 179 of the citadel Kennedy received […]
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The arrest of Juan Carlos Calle Serna is not an isolated event. Official figures indicate that their ties are linked to criminal cases dating, for example, 2009. On 2 October of that year, drug agents staged a raid in four provinces, seized 3.8 tons of cocaine and arrested two soldiers: one sergeant and a former […]
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Growth in Ecuador may continue its upward trend in early-2012 as a series of supply shocks and geopolitical risks keep oil prices elevated, according to Capital Economics. With average Oriente crude prices rising by around 35 percent year-on-year in 2011, the economy seems to have grown by over 8 percent. Despite stagnant production growth, the […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that 2,500 of coca plants were located by narotics police on two small islands in the Putumayo River in Sucumbios along the border with Colombia. The plants were destroyed by the armed forces of Ecuador.fternoon by members of the Narcotics Police, in collaboration with the Armed Forces of Ecuador. Read Article
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Sauces, Samanes, Guayacanes y Alborada in 2011 were reported as being the most insecure areas of Guayaquil. Stealing home was one of the major crimes reported in the Prosecutor attached to the Judicial Police in Guayaquil during the first two months of 2012, where 260 cases were reported, equivalent to 4 burglaries a day in […]
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The district’s Hoyada is northwest of the city, in the parish Bellavista. There live about 200 families, most people have their own home. Being located in a top, overlooking the city from one end, while from the other side shows the Milchichig gorge and surrounding neighborhoods, which are in the midst of green areas and […]
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Cuenca. – Occupation of sidewalks by vendors of meat, food and farm products, plus dozens of street vendors offering all kinds of trinkets, create an atmosphere of disorder which is used by anti-social to commit their crimes in the area known 9 de octubre. The crime committed last Friday morning, revealed that more disorder and […]
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Unknown after breaking the windows of a vehicle that was parked on First Avenue May and Philip II, was seized two cell phones. A resident reported that apparently the sound of the alarm was activated immediately, antisocial hurten prevented a personal computer that was inside. However, what worries them most is that this type of […]
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he leaders of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) do not share or even to their bases. They say that to prevent information from leaking to the Government held in reserve the time and route taken to end their march in the park the tree. This mobilization, which started last March 8 from […]
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The airlines have until tomorrow to present their proposal for the free endorsement, announced yesterday Carlos Jacome, president of the National Civil Aviation. Otherwise, he said, will be penalized financially. The official said the issue of compensation for inconvenience to users on flights as well as free endorsement go together. This last figure is that […]
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The Navy of Colombia held a Ecuadorian-flagged fishing and four fishermen of that country, which operated in Colombian territorial waters on the coast facing the border state of Nariño, said here Tuesday that institution. The Ecuadorian fishing, the second held in a week, was intercepted in the area of Natural Park Gorgona, when fished illegally, […]
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It is estimated that each passenger spends an average of $ 50 in crafts, straw hats and test the Ecuadorian gastronomy, meaning that the economy moves in Manta in just a few hours, an average of $ 100 000. Read Article
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A plane of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE), was today, Monday, an accident, near the Manta base, it was learned that no fatalities since their pilots managed to eject before the crash. This is a Super Tucano aircraft, so far there is no official version of the theme but it is known that the accident […]
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