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Ecuador's Original English Language Newspaper

Volume 5, Issue 50
September 19, 2021
Stop making demands

Stop making demands

Everywhere you look in Ecuador’s newspapers, you see President Lasso’s name: he’s going to CELEC, he’s speaking at the UN, he is being hailed for stopping Covid-19 in Ecuador, he has a meeting set up with Conaie, he is a busy, busy guy. And none of these things even...

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Prices of gasoline and diesel have both increased by more than $0.60 a gallon in the last fifteen months

Prices of gasoline and diesel have both increased by more than $0.60 a gallon in the last fifteen months

In the last fifteen months, since the removal of subsidies, prices for extra gasoline, extra with ethanol (ecopaís) gasoline, and diesel fuel have experienced an increase of between 63 cents and 65 cents. It was in the last government of the government of Lenín Moreno, that Executive Decree 1054 was issued, which established that from May 20, 2020 a […]

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Minas de Huascachaca, Ecuador’s largest wind power plant, to start operations in 2022

Minas de Huascachaca, Ecuador’s largest wind power plant, to start operations in 2022

A semi-desert area on the edges of Loja and Azuay, made up of plateaus, with dirt roads and little settled population, is the place where 14 wind turbines will be located in the coming months that will take advantage of the force of the wind to produce energy. This set of wind turbines – each […]

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Maduro and OAS disrupt focus of CELAC summit

Maduro and OAS disrupt focus of CELAC summit

Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held a summit in Mexico on Saturday, which criticized the OAS, requested that the United States change its relationship with the region, and raised questions of the presence of the Venezuelan...

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Ecuador Finance Minister Cueva says new global bond issuance will be “orderly and predictable”

Ecuador Finance Minister Cueva says new global bond issuance will be “orderly and predictable”

Debt with international bondholders reached $17.759 billion thru July 2021 Finance Minister Simón Cueva expects Ecuador to return to international markets for the issuance of new Global bonds in 2022, after the country was mainly financed over the last three years with credits from multilateral organizations. In a discussion with international investors, Cueva said that […]

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Government confirms date for meeting with Conaie

Minister Alexandra Vela indicated that President Guillermo Lasso will dialogue with indigenous leaders.

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In last 11 months, Ecuadorian illegal immigrants detained or deported from the United States were charged $1.345 billion by coyotes

According to 1800migrante.com, a minimum of $15,000 is paid from Ecuador for irregular travel to the United States (US). Over the last 11 months, 89,644 Ecuadorians have been arrested trying to cross illegally into the US.

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Foreigner arrested for trying to smuggle 213 seahorses thru Guayaquil airport

International trade in this species, whose populations are on the verge of extinction, is prohibited The Ecuadorian National Police reported that a foreign citizen was apprehended at the Guayaquil airport for transporting 213 seahorses. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) places all species of seahorses in its Appendix II, recognizing that they […]

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