Ecuador

The National Electoral Council (CNE) recognizes the error in more than six million presidential ballots, which included a logo that did not correspond to the Amigo movement . On the night of this Wednesday, January 13, 2021, the president of the organization, Diana Atamaint , described the fact as &...

Guayaquil Empresarial is the proposal aimed at small and medium-sized entrepreneurs in the city, promoted by the Mayor’s Office of Guayaquil, together with the Municipal Public Company for the Management of Innovation and Competitiveness of Guayaquil, Épico; and the Corporation for the Promoti...

World food prices reached a three-year high and a 3.1% increase in 2020 over 2019, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. World food prices rose for the seventh consecutive month The FAO Food Price Index also soared 2.2% monthly, to an average of 107.5 last month, dr...

Yesterday, while the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Diana Atamaint predicted successes in the printing of ballots for the general elections of February 7, 2021, these presented an error regarding the presidential binomials. More than 6 million presidential ballots will have to be...

In the space “De Frente con el Presidente”, the Head of State, Lenín Moreno, and the Minister of Agriculture, Xavier Lazo, spoke about the Government’s plans to reactivate agricultural production in the country. Ecuador obtained $ 5.5 billion of income from exports in 2020 In this radio space,...

As covid-19 spreads around the world, hackers take advantage of this situation to spread viruses that affect both businesses and home users . Ecuador, one of the nations most attacked by hackers Among the countries most attacked by computer worms are Russia , Germany , China , the United States and ...

When the lockdowns caused businesses, airports, factories, schools and houses to close their doors to mitigate the severity of the covid-19 pandemic, the economies of Latin American countries felt the blow. Why is inflation so low in Latin America and what does it say about the region’s econom...

450 women have been murdered by their partners since August 2014 when femicide was typified in the Comprehensive Penal Code (COIP) until this January 2021. Until 2014, the deaths of women were treated as murders or homicides , but the inclusion of that The crime came after the shock and debate cause...

María de los Ángeles Duarte, former Minister of Public Works in the Rafael Correa regime, faces her second legal process. This time it is for not using the electronic shackle. Second trial against former minister María de los Ángeles Duarte On August 12, 2020, Duarte entered the Embassy of Argentina...

An official of the National Electoral Council (CNE) resigned questioning its president, Diana Atamaint, that she had received a phone call to supposedly sign a communication services contract directly. An official resigns from the CNE stating that she was asked to sign documents to hire a supplier W...

BBC reporter Will Grant has produced an excellent look at the group of strongmen who came from left fieldIf there was ever a surreal start to a trip to Cuba, it was the one that coincided with the news Fidel Castro had died. That was what I woke up to on 26 November 2016, hours before my husband and I were due to fly to Havana. A day later, we found […]

The Goldman environmental prize honours the achievements of grassroots activists in six continents, recognising their efforts to protect natural habitats and push for political change, often at great personal riskPlastic in paradise: Goldman prize winner’s fight to protect Bahamas Continue reading...

Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru join forces over fleets’ Pacific territory intrusionsFour South American countries have joined forces in a bid to combat illegal fishing by huge Chinese fleets off their coasts.Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru have threatened measures “to prevent, discourage and jointly confront” illegal fishing near their exclusive […]

Witnesses who worked for company accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder claimed they were at riskFormer employees of a security firm accused of spying on Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in the UK will be allowed to give evidence to his extradition case anonymously after claiming they would be at risk of kidnapping or poisoning.Anonymity was granted to […]

The lawyer challenging the oil company’s toxic waste dump in Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of colour and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we’d like to highlight a different story of marginalised people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most […]