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New election reform law may restrict ability of media to cover elections media
Reforms to Ecuador’s electoral law that will take effect on February 4 could hamper the ability of the country’s journalists to cover political campaigns and elections, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The government of President Rafael Correa, who is expected to seek re-election next year, promoted the legislation, which was passed on January 10, to reform the country’s electoral law. However, press freedom groups told CPJ that the new legislation included broadly worded provisions that could result in vast censorship. Under the reforms, “almost any reporting that is published or transmitted during an electoral campaign” could be considered illegal, the Quito-based media group the Ecuadoran Journalists Forum, said in a communiqué. Read Article
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Ecuador spent $110 million in 2011 for judicial reform
Ecuador has invested $ 110 million in the process of justice reform started six months ago, in the framework of which were completed 1.7 million pending cases, said the body in charge of restructuring. This amount represents 94% of the amount allocated for 2011, within a total budget of nearly $ 596 million to be [...]
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Ecuador: Children and adolescents still at risk
Ecuadorian children and adolescents are still at risk. The figures that manage the agencies responsible for protecting children reflect this (see pg. 11). However, that does not mean there is no progress. The legislation, for example, are guaranteed certain rights, as contained in international treaties and conventions, as well as the Constitution and other specialized [...]
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1,200 to 1500 Colombians arriving in Ecuador monthly due to violence
The number of Colombians entering Ecuador to escape violence in their country has risen steadily over the past two years to put in between 1,200 and 1,500 per month, the UN said today. Currently there are 55,000 recognized refugees in Ecuador, according to which the Government has provided the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the [...]
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Protected endangered Tapir born in captivity, Guayaquil Ecuador
It is the fifth animal that comes from parents in captivity His habitat is the primary humid forests of the Ecuadorian Amazon With a weight of 6.8 kilos born Tonita, on Tuesday 17 Historical Park, located on the road to Samborondón. It is an Amazonian Tapir found in the red list of threatened species in [...]
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Ecuador: Some alternatives to pricing for national flights
Following the rise in air fares due to the elimination of gasoline subsidies for aircraft by the Government to the airports managed by consortia, including Baltra, there are several alternatives so that users do not feel the increase a great extent. One of them is to purchase tickets for two or three days stay in [...]
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Guayaquil Ecuador: 16 areas prone to flooding
Statements reiterate the need to find permanent solutions to flooding in a city like Guayaquil, located 4 meters above sea level and difficult to evacuate quickly. “People tend to throw garbage to sewage systems, and the city is prone to fill with invasions, where the works are almost always slow in coming, causing waterlogging annual [...]
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Quito Ecuador: 40 percent of paved roads in poor condition
According to the Epmmop, a month, 81 000 gallons are used for hot mix asphalt paving and patching used, 54 thousand gallons of another component to the primer and tack coat (process prior to placing the asphalt base the granular base and sub base), and 25 thousand gallons of asphalt emulsion for cold asphalt. However, [...]
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Ecuador, Chile analyzing existing aggreements for arms manufacturing
Ministers of Defense of Chile, Andres Allamand, and Ecuador, Javier Ponce, reviewed existing military cooperation agreements between the two countries signed a memorandum for peacekeeping missions in Haiti, the Ecuadorian government reported yesterday. Allamand, who finished yesterday a two-day visit to Ecuador, met Ponce in particular to evaluate a strategic alliance between the companies of [...]
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Ecuador: Ton of cocaine seized on four shrimp boats
Police and the Navy of Ecuador confirmed yesterday the seizure this week of more than one ton of cocaine hydrochloride in four shrimp located on the island of Puna, in the southwest. Between Tuesday and Thursday last, the authorities raided four shrimp, which was found in total more than a ton of drugs. Police said [...]
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Ecuador establishes diplomatic relations with Kazkhstan
Kazakhstan the thirteenth country with which Ecuador established diplomatic relations in six months. Alternate Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, Diego Morejon, signed the agreement with his counterpart from Kazakhstan, Byrganym Aitimova. The document will be forwarded to the Secretary General of the United Nations for the record, the Agency detailed the Andes. [...]
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An Assault on Democracy (Opinion from New York Times concerning President Correa)
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador is leading a relentless campaign against free speech, harassing his critics, forcing independent broadcasters off the air and hijacking the nation’s courts in his bid to bankrupt the country’s largest newspaper. After Emilio Palacio, the editorial page editor of El Universo, wrote a column accusing Mr. Correa of ordering the [...]
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Ecuador: Defunct Filanbanco retirees protest lack of paltry pension payment
Guayaquil: A group of retired patron Filanbanco SA in liquidation protested yesterday outside the Central Bank of Ecuador, on October 9th Avenue and Street Pichincha. With posters addressed to the President of the Republic, the former employees were asked to cancel the values ??for employer pensions that are owed since January 2011. Read Article
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Ecuador: health authorities may have undereported actual cases of dengue, malaria on the coast
Dengue figures continue to rise in coastal provinces. Reported to health authorities yesterday afternoon 367 cases of the disease so far this year, while the previous day there had been 280. The new cases confirmed in El Oro, where from 29 to 82 and into rivers increased from 69 to 94. In Manabi, until Monday [...]
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Guayaquil Ecuador: Victim robbed in elevator after making withdrawal at bank
Eluniverso.com reported that an individual withdrew $1000 from a bank in Guayaquil. When the victim returned to his office in the El Palmar building, two thugs held the man up in the elevator. The assailants threatened the man and displayed a gun. Read Article ANALYSIS: While there is limited information in this article, individuals need [...]
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Ecuador: Cases of dengue and malaria increase on the coast
Overall, since January 1 are 280 cases of dengue, including severe than previously known as hemorrhagic fever, in Guayas (103), Manabi (79), Los Rios (69), Gold (29) and Esmeraldas ( 12). In addition, 6 of malaria reported in Esmeraldas (4) and Los Rios(2). Cases of dengue and malaria in Costa increase as winter passes and [...]
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Galapagos Islands: Airfares increase, shortage of supplies due to decrease in number of cargo ships operating
El Universo.com reported as described Mariana Barrera desperate situation that exists in the Galapagos. She has a distributor in San Cristobal. She said that prices “are through the roof” for about two weeks. “There is no rice, no sugar, we have no gas. We are without basic necessities, “said Barrera, who explained that” ships and [...]
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Ecuador: Forecast of difficult winter with heavy precipitation, floods
Sixty technical and risk management meteorology met yesterday in Cuenca, the so-called First National Climate Forum, and agreed to implement a culture for reporting weather and prevent the drawbacks of climate change. At that meeting it was reported that, according to studies by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI), the winter season this [...]
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60 detained in police crackdown Otavalo Ecuador
OTAVALO. During the night of Saturday the curator Andres Rojas, accompanied by 11 police officers conducted a security operation to prevent, where 60 people on the street libaban were deprived of their liberty. The operation. The managers of control toured several areas of the city of Otavalo. After asking people who consumed alcohol in the [...]
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Tulcán Ecuador: second money changer robbed
Tulcán Ecuador: Armando Villareal Jose Narvaez is the second victim of crime, stolen in the same place, same time and same modality Hector R, assaulted on Tuesday. The history. Jose Narvaez was approached by three men who asked 7 000 $ 950 change. Due to the large amount of money, the subjects suggested the transaction [...]
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Ecuadorians leaving Spain in large numbers due to crisis
The migration of Ecuadorians to Spain has come to an end and now, in times of crisis, and more people are those who come, as evidenced by current population estimates prepared by the National Statistics Institute (INE) , cut to December 13, 2011. The data conclude that the net migration of Ecuadorians in Spain was [...]
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Thirteen people affected by ammonia gas leak on Tuna boat in Manta Ecuador port
Chavarria Jose Delgado, one of the thirteen affected by the ammonia gas leak raised yesterday. Until 11:00 yesterday thirteen people who were affected by the ammonia gas leak in the tuna boat Lucy T were recovered and had no serious affectations, according to doctors from Social Security hospitals and Rafael Rodriguez Zambrano of Manta, where [...]
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