The Tungurahua volcano in the last hours recorded an increase of eruptive activity characterized by strong explosions and ejection of ash and incandescent blocks, after weeks of relative calm, said Tuesday the Geophysical Institute. The eruptive activity began in late Monday and continued during the early hours of Tuesday when he dropped a rain of […]
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In Ecuador, 6 in 10 women have experienced some form of domestic violence, Morona Santiago, Tungurahua and Pichincha provinces are the highest rates of domestic violence recorded in the country, 9 out of 10 divorced women in Ecuador have experienced one of the four forms of violence: psychological, physical, sexual or proprietary. Read Article
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For nearly nine months into this process, which began on July 5, 2011, more than 3.7 million prepaid mobile lines still must comply with the registration and that if they do will limit their services from April 5. Otras 9,03 millones ya están registradas, según datos de las telefónicas privadas. Others are already registered 9.03 […]
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Beyond these problems, Ecuador is also beset with rising drug violence. That is partly a result of geography: Its location between Colombia and Peru makes it a major transit point for South American drug trafficking. According to the Los Angeles Times, roughly one-fourth of the annual cocaine output in the two neighboring countries ultimately moves […]
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Generally, the distribution of avisaje is performed unattended or technical criteria of proportionality. In Argentina, the arbitrary division led to two lawsuits-one against the province of Neuquen and other anti-national government to return the advertising media that had been stripped from it. None of these decisions has been met. “Some media come to depend almost […]
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Venezuela and Ecuador are the most hostile environments for the press, but the problem covers several countries. These are not good times for press freedom in America . Although, by definition, quality journalism is always antagonistic to the healthy dialectic between press and government is less common than open confrontation. The diagnosis varies by country, […]
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Clan members are originally from Puerto Asis, but established themselves as lords and masters throughout the southern Pacific coast from the 80’s. Gradually extended their dominions from Tumaco (Nariño) to the border and set up clandestine shipyards in Ecuador. The patriarch of the network, Mauner Mahecha, the ‘Old’, was a partner of drug traffickers as […]
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With flag in hand, arrived yesterday in Ambato indigenous march. In the capital of Tungurahua were waiting. Dozens of Wholesale Market traders and other sectors expected from 09:00 to hikers, who made a break in the mountains of Urbina (boundary between the provinces Chimborazo and Tungurahua) and Mocha, and then arrive at Chico Huachi sector. […]
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The child is a native of Iluman (Imbabura Province) and was taken to Colombia to work under compulsion and without receiving a salary, although before leaving he was offered $ 150 a month. During a routine operation, Colombian police casually entered a store to ask for identification papers and work permits. The Ecuadorian realizing the […]
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The domestic and international flights were normalized with the passing of the hours at the airport in Quito. The accident airplane House AEE-503, Ecuadorian Army, recorded at 18:00 on Friday, made the Mariscal Sucre airport is closed until midnight, restarting operations by 01:00 yesterday. Read Article
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Ecuadorians with mortgage problems who moved from Barcelona to Murcia to participate in Saturday’s link President Rafael Correa, returned disappointed after 16 hours of travel, 8-way and 8 turn. Their mobilization was funded by the Consulate of Ecuador in the city that made the call to the platforms affected by this problem, through email. According […]
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Link from Ecuador Juan Carlos Calle “was considered the international link of the criminal gang Los Rastrojos in the trafficking of cocaine from Ecuador to markets in Europe, Mexico and Central America”, said Sunday the press Luis Alberto Perez, director of the police narcotics. Perez also announced the arrest of two women and a man […]
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Since the beginning of the crisis in Spain is being a phenomenon of “reverse remittances” in which Ecuadorian immigrants living in this country take their savings or sell properties in Ecuador to survive, said Thursday in Madrid, a government representative Ecuador. “From the last three or four years has been noticing a change in remittance […]
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They came for a few days off and took the shock of their lives. Eso le aconteció a la pareja de canadienses Laura Milcawich y Stephen Aube, quienes arribaron a este país y fueron asaltados mientras visitaban el cerro Mandango, en la parroquia de Vilcabamba, el 8 de marzo. That’s what happened to the pair […]
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table full of counterfeits was presented as evidence at the hearing of indictment against Mario Javier Villamarín Correa, 31, currently faces as a precautionary measure not to leave the country for the duration of the police investigation, led by the prosecution. Villamarin was arrested in possession of fake $ 100 000, Police presumed, would be […]
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The wife of a Canadian is recovering in a hospital, after they were attacked, on March 8 in Vilcabamba. Milcawich Laura feels a considerable improvement in his health, during medical treatment by the hospital of Rio in the northern part of Loja. There he received visits from friends and public officials. Do not leave it […]
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Malfunctioning traffic lights caused five vehicle crashes in the last four days in Cuenca.Three of the crashes some people were injured. One of the accidents occurred in the avenues Paseo de los Canaris and Yanaurco, Totoracocha industry, including a taxi, AAU-808 board, led by Ruben Dario Avila, and a Chevrolet D-Max, PVB-808 board, run by […]
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Carchi Police presented photos of the five most wanted individuals in the province, who have outstanding accounts murders. Two of them are family and are involved in the death of lawyer Jorge Garcia. Edgar Lopez, head of the Judicial Police Carchi said that eight subjects who are in the sights of justice, as the suspects […]
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The facilities of the company, which provides potable water service and sewer service to Machala, Passage and The Guabo, awoke yesterday militarized. The national government declared a state of emergency in these cantone. The company’s facilities in Machala awoke yesterday TripleOro militarized after the Government declared a state of emergency in the capital of El […]
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“We were caught asleep”, those were the words of several relatives of detainees in “Operation Avalanche”. Early yesterday morning, at approximately 02:00, an impressive police operation, which involved about 1,500 police and other elite police units, arrested 30 suspects allegedly involved in conspiracy. Amid the darkness, suddenly the arrival of large numbers of patrol altered […]
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Two children less than one year olda year have died of dengue hemorrhagic fever, as he told the parent in the nursing home where the child was hospitalized. The night of Sunday March 5, the small Matias Vera, just one year, was transferred by his mother to a polyclinic Vinche Carolina near his home in […]
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The possible increase of 25% on intercantonal and interprovincial transport nationwide, has generated debate and surprise users and tranportistas. In Imbabura Unknown to the measure for owners, drivers and users of these regular train. No date. Oscar Garcia, president of United Tansportes (Aerotaxi, Andean and Tourism) idicó not yet know the date for the 25% […]
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n Obrapía, Manuel Jima is accused of selling the same item several times to 160 families. Next week starts the prosecution of the alleged swindler, the First Court of Criminal Guarantees of Loja. At 09h00 on Monday will begin hearing oral judgment against Manuel de Jesus Vega Jima, prosecuted for criminal offense of massive fraud […]
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16 kilos of cocaine seized by the police and army in the border county Macara for a coordinated intelligence operation. The investigation originated in the north of the country. The National Police and members of the Brigade 7 Loja, in the light of American neighborhood in the city of Macara, seized in an address 18 […]
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They had gone to Ecuador to find peace, rejuvenation and spiritual healing. Instead, a Toronto couple was taken hostage by a gun-wielding gang in a perplexing robbery that has left officials in both countries tight-lipped. Stephen Aube, a 40-year-old self-described spiritual healer, and his wife, Laura Milcawich, left their Toronto home three weeks ago for […]
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The government announced that at midnight on Friday March 16th is the deadline for the closure of casinos and gambling halls across the country, in strict compliance with Executive Order No. 873, establishing a period of 6 months to The closure of these places, after the popular consultation of May 7, 2011. (TC Television) Read […]
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For quite some time Ecuador has struggled with the issue of migration of Ecuadorians from the mainland to the Galapagos Islands. Much of this migration has been for the purpose of benefiting from the fact that the Galapagos is a cash cow the earning dollars from tourism. Below you will see a video regarding 32 […]
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Oil company Chevron on Friday said it hopes the dismissal of the Ecuadorean judge who issued an $18 billion ruling against the U.S. firm for polluting the Amazon will dissuade foreign courts from enforcing the sentence. Two Ecuadorean judges involved in levying one of the largest verdicts ever for environmental damages worldwide were sanctioned over […]
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The journey will take 34 minutes from Quitumbe, in the south to the Labrador, near the present airport in the north of the city, which will be the two terminal stations of the system, which hopes to move to 400 thousand people per day in a city that exceeded one million 600 thousand inhabitants, supports […]
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Four hectares planted with coca plant were found in Brisas del Cuyabeno Sucumbios, during a patrol of the Army, on Thursday. Yesterday, officials of the Jungle Brigade 19 Napo, criminology and police officers were mobilized to narcotics there. Fifty soldiers guarded the premises, in a sector near the Cuyabeno Nature Reserve. Is there a risk […]
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Thousands of people gathered at an event organized by the Prefecture of Azuay Citizen and Government Fair Basin, called bastion of citizen revolution, was the scene where the opposition yesterday brought thousands to the streets to support the motion that the CONAIE and other social organizations began in Zamora Chinchipe March 8 to protest against […]
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Apparently, the estate received goods to be sold under a commission of around 5% and this in turn promoted. When was concerned,Inmobiliaria Grupo Diez Estrellas (Inmodiez). Inmodiez put up all his apparatus to get the customer to choose a house or land, then get to the important business: give the money to remove the property. […]
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A recurring complaint about the service areas of emergency in three hospitals in Guayaquil: the long wait for medical care, which the patients are “emergencies”. So far this year recorded a surge of winter diseases in the wards of public hospitals Ycaza Francisco Bustamante and Abel Gilbert, known as Guayaquil and the IESS, Teodoro Maldonado […]
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The Ecuadorian cities of Porto Viejo and Guayaquil support the rainiest season in 40 years, the amount of rainfall has increased by 121% in relation to normal and this will continue as outlined by the Institute of Meteorology of the country. teleSUR
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An assessment by Ecuadorian security forces reportedly says that Ecuador is home to an increasing number of organized criminal groups, and that the authorities have underestimated the problem. El Comercio reports (in Spanish) that a review by the military says that drug trafficking and organized crime may soon overwhelm the country, if “adequate measures” are […]
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The Naval Oceanographic Institute informs citizens on 9, 10 and March 11 will present a new period of watering place. In relation to sea conditions, we see the arrival on our shores for waves of moderate intensity, with heights between 1.5 and 2.5 meters on 8 and 9 of this month, while 10 and 11 […]
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The Indians tore his walk yesterday for Quito with transportation restrictions and fewer fans than expected. But confirmed that the next March 22 will be in the capital of the Republic to reject the government’s mining policy, the failure of important legislation for the sector, such as Water and Earth, among other claims. The movement […]
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Establishing coordination among various ministries to alleviate the effects of heavy rains. It is also expected that the Ministry of Finance to allocate the resources needed to mobilize people at risk and their subsequent relocation to shelters, Ecuavisa reported. The provinces in which they declared a state of emergency are: Manabi, Guayas, Los Ríos, El […]
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Increase of dengue cases in El Oro In most rural districts of Machala remains stagnant water causing the appearance of mosquitoes carrying dengue and other diseases. Residents say there are many mosquitoes and some children have symptoms such as fever, malaise, headache and sectors where they live have not been fumigated. Across the province, in […]
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For Hugo Yepez, director of the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic threats earthquake in Ecuador, on the coast and in the mountains, not far away. The high vulnerability, social and political, we are exposed to high risks. What is the threat of another earthquake in Ecuador? Is the one related to the deformation in […]
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Earthquake of 4.0 degrees was recorded in Gauteng An earthquake of 4.0 magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded Thursday in the province of Manabi, according to preliminary report of the Geophysical Institute (GI) of the National Polytechnic School. The IG stated in its website that the tremor occurred at 00:18 (05:18 GMT) and was […]
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The lack of drugs in health units in the cantons of Manta and Montecristi in Manabi desperate patients and acute complaints from users. Since last February the Sub-center pharmacy drug Montecristi is unserved. “The excuse given is that the game still fails to buy,” said an employee of that agency, who omitted his name and […]
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The Carchi on the border with Colombia, has registered about 80 cases of extortion in 11 years, according to figures from the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit (Join) of the Police. During this same period, in other border provinces have reported 31 cases in Esmeraldas and 31 in Sucumbios. However, since 2001 the province where more […]
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In addition, according to John Ruales, National Director of Traffic, 137 traffic lights were fitted and placed 940 signs. According to a report by the Municipality, 900 traffic lights in the city have served their useful life span and their damage can not be solved with the purchase of spare parts. The change process affected […]
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The Chinese government said today that China is cooperating with Ecuador on the basis of mutual benefit and respect its laws, including environmental, in response to the protest that took place this week in Quito against the start of a major mining project in the Andean country with investment china. Read Article
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The kidnap express or “secuestro express” continues to plague residents of Guayaquil Ecuador. Below are some key facts and figures regarding this crime modality. There was some reduction in this type offense in 2011 compared to 2010. 1. 50% of express kidnappings occur in yellow taxis. 2. 23% of express kidnapping occur in pirate taxis. […]
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Rafael Correa has backed down in his attempt to bankrupt a newspaper. But his assault on media freedom continues to set a worrying example. HIS country rarely attracts much international attention. But when Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, used the courts last year to bankrupt one of its main newspapers and intimidate others, he touched off […]
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said on Saturday that this month will travel to Turkey to enhance trade relations with the Arab country. He noted that probably a scale advantage in Murcia (Spain) to visit their fellow migrants. During the Saturday program Citizen Link, the Ecuadorian president said the official visit to Turkey is scheduled for […]
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About thirty men yesterday morning trying in vain to stem the fury of The Red River, overflowed in the Los Sauces, between the exhibition The Canton Red Daule (Guayas), and the main regional town of Nitro. They tried to put bags of sand to form a wall, but the strength of the current task impossible. […]
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The airport of Guayaquil Jose Joaquin de Olmedo track closes today between 08:00 and 12:00 for repair work. The manager of the Port Authority of Guayaquil, Nicolas Romero explained that the winter during the week forced to do hard cold asphalt, but today will be complemented with the installation of hot material at that time […]
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The Narcotics Police seized Guayas a new drug shipment at a port of Guayaquil. During an operation on Wednesday, officers discovered 119 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride packaged in blocks and hidden in the ‘Pallet’ (wooden supports) used to transport bananas. The cargo was stored in a container in a private marina. Read Article
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The Non-Renewable Resources Minister, Wilson Pastor, said a few minutes on Monday at 17:30 in the hall of the Palace of Carondelet Amarillo will be signed the first contract for the exploitation of large-scale mining. The agreement was signed between the State and the Chinese company Ecuacorriente (ECSA) operating within the Mirador project located in […]
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It is not a condition but the water quality of four rivers that cross through Cuenca is in good condition. This is the report that has the Surveillance Program Water Quality of tributaries Cuenca. The Environmental Management Unit, City Stage Company, has a water monitoring system of Tomebamba Yanuncay Machángara and Tarqui. In 1984 started […]
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The operation called Lightning, which rode on the southern border Police seized 4,000 gallons of fuel and 16 LPG cylinders. This shipment, according to the agents was in clandestine warehouses Huaquillas 26, a town bordering Peru. In addition, seized empty plastic drums and accessories, which were allegedly used to illegally packaged fuel and then sell […]
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CONNECTIONS MADE BETWEEN ECUADOR – MEXICAN CARTELS – SHIPMENTS SENT FROM GUAYAQUIL IN LOADS OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – DESTINATION BELGIUM. The undercover officers followed the steps you nine months. At that time, an agro-export company, based in Manabi, had reached a ‘record’ of exports. Last May, the commercial firm started exporting various agricultural products such […]
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Within 15 days there was another shooting in the neighborhood Cayambe, north of Cuenca. Yesterday afternoon, a man was killed with six shots. While another is wounded and treated at a hospital in the city. The fact alarmed the neighbors who said they are daily fights over drug sales and prostitution. Witnesses said the dispute […]
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The prefect said that Gauteng Jairala Jimmy asked the government to declare a state of emergency in the province “to establish the emergency and get the resources to cope with the ravages of winter.” “The alerts are declared on serve to organize evacuation shelters or have ready, but not to access resources,” said Jairala. Indeed, […]
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The National Court of Justice accepted the apology of President Rafael Correa to the three directors of the newspaper El Universo ordered to pay millions in compensation.The National Court of Justice (CNJ) accepted the apology from the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, the three directors of the newspaper El Universo and opinion former chief Emilio […]
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Third Judge of Criminal Guarantees of Loja, Humberto Aguilera Jaramillo ordered the preventive detention for the British Malcolm Eoin Ryan, for an alleged scam to about 100 citizens of this province. The petition filed by the Attorney Teresa Ordonez abroad lent them money at high interest and despite that they allegedly altered bills of exchange […]
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The weakening of La Niña phenomenon in the next two weeks and his subsequent disappearance, will find the start of the first rainy season in Colombia, which will be very strong and will last until early June, according to Ideam. Meanwhile, half of the departments, are at high risk and threat of more emergencies. Cesar […]
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The cable television channel Megavision, signal 7 for the canton Quinindé, went off the air since last Wednesday due to the theft of equipment that the company suffered from studios located in the heart of the main regional town. Read Article
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A Cessna plane belonging to Ecuador’s Police, with PN-214 plates, suffered a mechanical failure at 12:30 today, near Machala. Passengers, Chief Operating Officer, General Rodrigo Suarez and Manuel Peña, were unharmed, according to Interior Ministry tweets, which stated that thanks to a pilot’s maneuver could save the passengers and crew. Read Article
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Gutenberg Alembert and Vera, President Rafael Correa’s lawyers, went this afternoon to the National Court of Justice (CNJ), to give the judges a letter requesting the case file and remission Universe debt for damages. Monday morning, the Head of State granted a pardon to the leaders of the Guayaquil newspaper and former editor of Opinion, […]
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“It’s not worth wasting time on people who do not deserve” Quito (Pichincha). – The President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, announced today its decision to refer (forgive) the legal process that began months ago against the newspaper El Universo, for having insulted in the editorial “No lies” , in which he said that the […]
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The latest twist in the lawsuit against El Universal by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has the original judge in the case seeking asylum. (Judge in Ecuador libel case flees country) The judge, Monica Encalada, told the press she was seeking the protection of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission after she publicly accused the judicial system […]
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Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti is present in tropical and subtropical areas of the country. 70% of Ecuador has environmental conditions suitable for reproduction, but in winter the coastal provinces and the East are the most affected due to moisture. According to data provided by the Ministry of Public […]
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The new rules adopted last week by the National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL) to build mobile recharges for prepaid and postpaid therefore be verified by the Telecommunications Authority (SUPERTEL) The Superintendent said CONATEL notified that the meeting on February 17 approved the resolution regarding the validity of the charges. Subject to the provisions of the Concession […]
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Two people, whose identities are reserved for safety, driving a Hyundai Tucson jeep down the street Pio Bravo, Thursday evening. During the tour, four, three men and one woman, were intercepted and boarded the vehicle, forcing them to sit in the back seat, while appropriated documents. The bad guys to know that the vehicle tracking […]
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The President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, announced that the country already has a draft law for the protection, promotion and preservation of the ancestral knowledge of the country’s biodiversity, which will face the biopiracy. Biopiracy is a practice whereby researchers or companies illegally used the biodiversity of developing countries and the collective knowledge of […]
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Although the number of available hospital beds has increased nationally from 7,748 to 9,256 between 2006 and 2011 in the premises managed by the MSP, according to information received from the Government health officials believe that this increase is insufficient, taking into As the demand of the service increases with increase in the population each […]
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The Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, in his opinion column Sunday in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, entitled ‘The honor of the president “, refers to the condemnation of the newspaper El Universo, its officers and journalist Emilio Palace, for insulting the president, noting that she Rafael Correa “has taken another step in […]
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The director of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, John Wagner, has warned international banks to be aware of transactions that are generated in Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua, as part of preventing financial transactions linked to Iran the risk of incurring consequences if the U.S. imposed sanctions on that […]
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The $42 million criminal libel case against Ecuador’s El Universo newspaper keeps generating controversy and asylum seekers. On Thursday, Monica Encalada, an Ecuadoran judge who reviewed the case, said she was seeking the protection of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission after exposing what she called “bald corruption” in the judicial system. During a press conference […]
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The Ecuadorian army seized in February more than 7 thousand arms ammunition and 1,595 explosives in the province of El Oro (border with Peru). In recent operations conducted between 13 and 22 February, the military seized 48 firearms including shotguns, pistols, carbines, among others.In addition 403 ammunition, 1,595 sticks of dynamite, 220 meters of detonating […]
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Washington, Andina. American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered the government of Ecuador to take precautionary measures in favor of four journalists of the newspaper “El Universo” convicted in court for allegedly insulting President Rafael Correa. Cesar Perez, Carlos Perez and Nicolas Perez, directors of “The Universe” as well as the former head of environmental […]
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and other social groups today called for a protest march for March 8 against the policies implemented by the government of President Rafael Correa. The leader of CONAIE, Humberto Cholango, said at a news conference that the mobilization is due to the unpopular policies implemented by Correa […]
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Eighty Ecuadorian arrive tomorrow deported from the United States, according to information provided by the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami). The report notes that the Consulate General of Ecuador in New Orleans and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, this February 24 compatriots arrive in the country deported by U.S. immigration authorities. Read […]
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Over 17% of Ecuadorian youth between 15 and 19 are mothers, the second highest rate in Latin America, behind Venezuela, according to data released today by the Government, which has launched a campaign to reduce this figure by a quarter in two years. In 2010, the latest year for which official figures, 20% of births […]
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Ecuador is among the top 10 cocoa-producing nations, growing 6 percent of the world’s supply—and over 70 percent of one of the world’s finest varieties, Cacao Arriba, Nacional or Fino de Aroma. Yet Ecuador’s status on the world cocoa market hasn’t translated to better jobs and incomes for many of its producers. In the coastal […]
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The last holiday was different from the others by the high number of traffic accidents that took the lives of 74 people and left dozens injured nationwide, according to the National Police.Undoubtedly the most unfortunate was the fact occurred last weekend on the road Salinas-San Lorenzo, played by the cooperative bus Mirror, for which there […]
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The Minister of Social Development Coordinator in Ecuador, Doris Soliz, today accused “certain media” to become informants on political opponents of the government and reiterated that freedom of expression does not justify lying. “The case of El Universo is the tip of the iceberg of a whole system, in which the media have gone out […]
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It was seized in a house in the Andean city of Cayambe (Ecuador), about a half ton of marijuana by police in an operation that left one Colombian arrested. The drug shipment was discovered after nearly a month of investigations, which continue to determine whether it was bound to the Ecuadorian market and for export, […]
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This day was clearly the low temperatures in the city ambateña, which ranged from 10 degrees Celsius, recorded by thermometers placed in public parks in the city. Some people commented that these weather conditions caught them by surprise, seeing that in the days before weather conditions were colored by an intense heat by the presence […]
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An explosion caused the collapse of a mine in the area of Bella Rica, in the canton Ponce Enriquez, in the province of Azuay. The blast occurred at 09:30 on Wednesday. This fact has at least five people died from inhalation of toxic gases and another ten have been affected, so that police and rescue […]
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INFLATABLE SWIMMING POOLS For merchants in the Bahia of Guayaquil, the Carnival holidays economically was not as good as last year. However, in the main stores selling pools increased significantly. Jumping right of Maryol Commercial, located in the bay, said that in 2011 expended 400 inflatable pools meet this year were only 70. Commercial workers […]
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Exporters who do not respect the official price of the box of bananas will be sanctioned warned President of the Republic, Rafael Correa.The president noted that the strict controls exist to enforce the price of $ 5.50, exporters pay, “but then tell the producers to give the cash back,” said Correa. Read Article
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Ecuador’s government yesterday declared a yellow alert in the coastal provinces of the country and populations who are in the foothills of the western mountains due to heavy rains that have occurred in recent weeks and have resulted in 18 deaths. Manabi, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Santa Elena, El Oro, Los Rios, Santo Domingo, Galapagos, Canar, Azuay, […]
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Salinas. A total of 85 dead, 551 wounded and 20 missing, for various events: drowning, electrocution and accidents, left the Carnival holiday, according to the National Secretariat for Risk Management, Maria del Pilar Cornejo, in a press conference offered from the Citizens Center in Salinas, Santa Elena. Read Article
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Until 12:00, it was confirmed that those killed in traffic accidents on the road Ibarra-San Lorenzo, is 29 according to the Central Integrated Citizen. The cooperative bus Mirror, disc 20, traveled frequently and possibly without excess passengers, said Doris Viteri, head of Traffic Control Imbabura. “The bus went off the road into a ravine about […]
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Jose Pelaez has a banana farm in the La Iberia Region Guabo (Gold). The 600 cases last Thursday embarked on a transnational brand which exports to Europe. “They are now paying between 8 and $ 9, he was 11 earlier this year, but only lasted a week.” He, like dozens of small producers in the […]
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The poor economic situation that currently lives in Spain, gradually complicates the permanence of Ecuadorians in that country. In fact, the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, a few days ago predicted that unemployment will be even greater in 2012. “We are facing a critical situation, with an unemployment rate of 22.9% (5.3 million people out […]
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The hours that remained closed Tungurahua Volcano Observatory (OVT) let it be known economic problem facing the monitoring system in the country.} For Hugo Yepes, director of the Geophysical Institute (IG), not only disadvantages are the need to renew some teams, community and the watchers also scientists require more care and better wages. Although that […]
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The president has more than ten lawsuits against him in the halls of the Criminal and Civil Justice National Court. Joffre Campaña, procurador judicial de El Universo, lo demandó por cinco millones. Campaign Joffre, judicial attorney in El Universo, sued him for five million. A total of 11 lawsuits for injuries and emotional harm has […]
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President Rafael Correa took part yesterday in a military ceremony at the base of Taura, in which the Government gave 12 aircraft Air Force supersonic Cheetah. The fleet, which is of South African origin, has a cost of $ 78 million and is guaranteed for five years. Las aeronaves son de segunda mano y antes […]
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The mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro, signed today a cooperation agreement on disability with the Vice President of Ecuador, which will send three teams of experts to the city to report on the “Manuela Mirror”, which has helped thousands of people in the country. At the signing ceremony, the secretary general of the Vice President […]
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On Saturday, at 22:00, started an operation between May 1 and Avenue of the Americas (in the south of the city) which concluded at 03:00. There, for five hours, the Judicial Police (PJ) of Azuay raided a house in which he found firearms large caliber projectiles with telescopic sights, cartridges, among other weapons. Colonel PJ, […]
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The interior minister, José Serrano, filed a complaint of malfeasance against the three members of the Third Criminal Court of Azuay. These judges, on February 3 gave freedom to Johnny O., 25, who was detained in Cuenca Men’s Prison. He was involved accused of raping a child of four years, the previous year. Three days […]
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EXTRA.EC reported that President Correa is making attempts to arrest the individuals responsible of the recent assault of foreign tourists in Ecuadorian Amazon. The American, Irish, and Chilean tourists were intercepted and held hostage last Monday by six armed assailants. They were robbed of all their belongings in a nature reserve located in Sucumbios ABOUT […]
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