Ecuador
Vai alla Scheda Paese »There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
— Juan Montalvo
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Antivacunas ganan la calle
Un editorial de El Comercio, de Ecuador, analiza la resistencia de un segmento de la población a vacunarse
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Wikileaks Founder Assange Loses Ecuadorian Citizenship
A court has revoked Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship. Administrative errors were made when citizenship was granted to Australian-born Assange in 2017, newspaper El Comercio reported Tuesday, citing an administrative court in Ecuador’s capital Quito. Assange remains detained in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison. The United States is seeking his ...
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Vélez desperdició la oportunidad de volver a cuartos de la Copa Libertadores tras diez años: Barcelona le dio un duro golpe
El equipo de Pellegrino perdió por 3-1 en Ecuador y quedó eliminado del torneo continental
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Por tercer año consecutivo, Uruguay premiará iniciativas de Economía Circular
El 1o de julio se abrió la convocatoria para participar de la tercera edición del Premio Uruguay Circular, una actividad enmarcada en el Programa PAGE Uruguay, llevada adelante por el Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Minería (MIEM), junto a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Industrial (ONUDI) y la ...
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More than 22,000 businesses disappeared in Ecuador during the pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Government of Ecuador revealed this Tuesday that more than 22,000 companies disappeared in the country due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the periods of restrictions applied. This was stated by the Minister of Production and Foreign Trade, Julio Prado, in declarations ...
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Economía ecuador se contrae 5,6% interanual en primer trimestre de 2021: banco central
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Ecuador requires US$237 million to attend to 430,000 Venezuelan migrants
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ecuador requires some US$237 million to attend to the more than 430,000 Venezuelan migrants in the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed on Tuesday after a preparatory meeting for the donors' roundtable to be held on June 17 in Canada. The announcement was made ...
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Honduras accuses Venezuela of wanting to impose its agenda in Latin America
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (EFE) The Honduran Foreign Minister, Lisando Rosales, accused Venezuela this Friday of wanting to impose its agenda on the democracies of Latin America, encouraging the protests that have recently taken place in countries such as Chile, Ecuador and, at this moment, Colombia. Rosales participated today ...
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Lasso sends his freedom of expression bill to Ecuador’s Assembly to end ‘gag law’
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Ecuador’s new president, Guillermo Lasso, sent this Tuesday to the National Assembly his promised project to repeal the 2013 “Communication Law” passed by the then ruling Correism and which was considered a “gag law” Sent to the head of the legislative branch, Guadalupe Llori, the ...
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Lasso abre Ecuador al libre comercio y promueve nueva ley de comunicación
El presidente de Ecuador, el conservador Guillermo Lasso, inició el lunes su mandato de cuatro años abriendo el país al libre comercio mundial e impulsando una nueva ley de Comunicación para reemplazar la norma dictada en 2013, considerada una “mordaza”.
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Lasso toma posesión; promete democracia y libre comercio
“Hoy recibimos un país con históricos niveles de desempleo, un país que ha deslumbrado por su incapacidad para hacer frente a una pandemia brutal”, dijo en el acto de investidura el nuevo presidente de Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso.
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Panama reactivates its diplomacy and bets on a new international position
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Panama's Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes, has the firm intention of cleaning up and strengthening her country's international position, for which, among other measures, she has reactivated direct diplomacy even during the pandemic with a series of trips that will take her to Ecuador, Spain, Belgium, ...
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Ecuador presents study suggesting reforms to the pension system
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The government of Ecuador presented this Friday a diagnosis on the Social Security Disability, Old Age and Death (IVM) pension system and suggested reforms that cannot be postponed given its eventual unsustainability in the short term. The study, presented by the Ministry of the Economy ...
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Ecuador’s Parliament approves controversial law maintaining and regulating “dollarization”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The plenary of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Ecuador approved this Thursday with 84 votes in favor the controversial Law for the Defense of Dollarization, criticized by the opposition and expected by the government as a guarantee to strengthen this monetary system adopted by the ...
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Presidente Lenín Moreno decreta estado de excepción en Ecuador por pandemia
El presidente de Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, decretó este miércoles el estado de excepción, que incluye un toque de queda y la suspensión de derechos fundamentales, ante la “acelerada velocidad de contagio” de la Covid-19.
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27 Apr Analisi del Mercato ed Opportunità per le Imprese Italiane nel Settore delle Macchine Agricole in Ecuador
L’Ambasciata d’Italia a Quito, l’Ufficio di Bogotà dell'Agenzia ICE competente anche per Ecuador, Panama e Venezuela e la Federazione Nazionale Costruttori Macchine per l’Agricoltura (Federunacoma), organizzano un Webinar di presentazione del settore delle macchine agricole in Ecuador che si terrà il prossimo 27 aprile alle ore 16.00 CET. Lo studio è ...
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Equador: Transporte interestadual tem greve contra reajuste de combustíveis
Movimento provocou bloqueios em estradas de algumas províncias e ataques a veículos conduzidos por motoristas que não aderiram à manifestação, diz agência Motoristas do transporte interestadual do Equador entraram em greve nesta segunda-feira para protestar contra o aumento progressivo dos preços dos combustíveis que está em vigor ...
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Ecuador’s economy to contract by 7.8% in 2020 due to pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ecuador's economy contracted 7.8% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic's effects, which hit hard household and government consumption, investment, and exports, the Andean country's economic authorities said Thursday. The fall in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020 was less than the 9.5% projected by ...
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Ecuador’s textile industry lost 36% of its turnover in 2020 amid declining local purchasing power
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Ecuadorian textile industry is suffering the consequences of a challenging 2020, which came after almost 5 years of declining figures. The sector went from invoicing US$1.387 billion in its local market in 2019, to registering sales of US$886 million last year, a contraction of ...
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Crime is significant deterrent to foreign investment required to kickstart Colombia’s oil industry
By Matthew Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - There has long been an association between petroleum production, political repression, poor governance, and increased internal conflict. For strife-torn oil-dependent Colombia, which is claimed to be Latin America’s longest-running democracy, this is no different. Like South American neighbors Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador, ...
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Analysis: Ecuador’s insecure dam and unpayable debt – another of Xi Jinping’s questionable deals
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - While China's Xi Jinping's foreign policy is becoming increasingly nationalistic, he is maintaining unchanged his aggressive economic strategy in Latin America, particularly in countries like Ecuador with shaky accounts and little infrastructure. Since 2010 -when this strategy was stepped up- Beijing has granted loans worth ...