by Rebeca Mendoza | Sep 21, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 46
Older residents say reorganized services are making care harder to reach, while IESS says the changes were required. Retirees take their complaints to IESS Retirees in Cuenca are challenging changes at the city’s IESS Centro de Atención al Adulto Mayor, saying...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Sep 21, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 46
Income tax and VAT collections are rising sharply, giving the government billions more to finance its growing obligations. Tax collections surge Ecuador’s tax authority collected $16.685 billion between January and August 2026, an increase of $2.371 billion compared...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Sep 21, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 46
Payments to Social Security have increased sharply, although disputed debts and pension pressures remain unresolved. Nearly twice as much money going to IESS Ecuador’s government says it will have transferred $8.917 billion to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Sep 21, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 46
The latest nationwide outage adds to a year of disruptions, changing procedures and frustration for Ecuadorian drivers. Another shutdown at the ANT Ecuador’s troubled driver’s-license system suffered another disruption last week when the National Transit Agency...
by Rebeca Mendoza | Sep 15, 2026 | Volume 10, Issue 45
The country’s most important strategic reservoir is falling rapidly while electricity imports from Colombia have almost disappeared. Ecuador entered its annual dry season earlier than usual this year, and the country’s most important strategic electricity reservoir is...
