Ecuador

More time to comply with the delivery of crude oil to China. The manager of Petroecuador, Italo Cedeño, assured that the Ecuadorian government’s intention is to ask for more time to comply with the oil pre-sales, in the trip that President Guillermo Lasso will lead to the Asian giant.  “...

Long lines of users were registered in the first weekend of opening of the Naturíssimo store that recently opened in Doral, Miami. In the two days of opening of the premises, as reported by the company, more than 3,000 customers were received, which exceeded all expectations at its start. The inaugu...

A bad year for bananas. According to figures from the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE), the export of boxes of 18.14 kilograms (kg) reached the level of 386 million in 2020, while in 2021 it reached 376 million boxes, that is, a 2.5% drop in banana shipments. Throughout the months o...

Ecuadorian shrimp exports grew 41 % in all of 2021 compared to the previous year. According to figures from the National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA), in the twelve months of the year, Ecuador received $5,078 million for shellfish exports. In volume, the shrimp sector also remained on the growth pat...

Like a cold-water bath. This is how taxpayers are receiving the amounts that, as of this year, they will have to pay for Income Tax (IR). The projection of expenses that must be presented until the end of this month, which will help the employer to calculate the monthly payments, generates a delayed...

Two years and eight months after signing the contracts with three companies that won the Intracampos round, Frontera Energy achieved the first important result. The discovery of crude oil in the Jandaya-1 well, which is also the first well operated by Frontera to be drilled in Ecuador. Frontera Ener...

The discovery of gas and oil in the prospection of a new well in the Amazon will help Ecuador increase its flagging oil production and exposes the potential of an industry that President Guillermo Lasso intends to duplicate until the end of his term. The well is “the result of the 2019 intra-f...

The life of Wilson Santiago Olmedo has passed in the last eight years between Guayaquil, Quito, Naranjal, Esmeraldas and Imbabura. In these cities he has served as part of the National Police. He did not work in Riobamba, but on the morning of June 11, 2021, something happened there that changed his...

The trial hearing of Swedish computer scientist Ola Bini, a friend of Julian Assange and who is accused of alleged illegal access to computer systems in Ecuador, was set up this Wednesday. “After almost three years, of more than one hundred violations of Ola’s rights, and with the suppor...

President Guillermo Lasso confirmed that one of the goals of his government is to sign trade agreements with ten countries located in Asia, Europe and North America, in the next three years. On the morning of this Wednesday, January 19, during the intervention in the virtual panel of the World Econo...

Wolf Volcano, the tallest mountain in the Pacific archipelago, began erupting shortly before midnight on WednesdayThe tallest mountain in the Galápagos islands has erupted, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific Ocean, according to Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute.A cloud of gas and ash from Wolf Volcano rose to 3,793 meters […]

Study finds exports to region doubled in 2020 with practice predicted to grow as US invests in recycling plantsEnvironmental organisations across Latin America have called on the US to reduce plastic waste exports to the region, after a report found the US had doubled exports to some countries in the region during the first seven months of 2020.The US is […]

Landmark ruling says mining permits issued in Los Cedros protected area breach Ecuador’s constitutionEcuador’s highest court has ruled that plans to mine for copper and gold in a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.In a landmark ruling, the constitutional court of Ecuador decided that mining permits issued in Los […]

Campaigners say if copper mine gets go-ahead in cloud forest, the longnose harlequin, once thought to be extinct, will be threatened againReports of the longnose harlequin frog’s death appear to have been greatly exaggerated – or, at least, premature. The Mark Twain of the frog world is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) […]

The Organization of American States is no longer credible. We need a new body if we are to protect democracyOn 20 October, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, traveled to Ecuador to set out a vision for democracy in the Americas. Over the past five years, the hemisphere has suffered an assault on its democratic institutions, as political leaders from […]