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Volume 7, Issue 08

Mexico and Ecuador set deadline to finalize trade agreement

Update to: Mexico and Ecuador continue to negotiate a critical free trade Published: Volume 6, Issue 52 At a bilateral meeting last week, the presidents of both countries gave their negotiating teams one week to define a proposal on bananas and shrimp. They also addressed regional policy issues. The presidents of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, and […]

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The world of birds in Ecuador, a look at the Buenaventura Reserve

The world of birds in Ecuador, a look at the Buenaventura Reserve

The reserve was founded in 1999 to protect the habitat of the Orcés Parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi), an endangered bird that inhabits the foothill cloud forest in southwestern Ecuador. Buenaventura has an inventory of more than 300 species of birds; several of them are endemic and highly threatened. Visiting the Buenaventura Reserve means tuning your ear to distinguish the […]

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OAS concludes visit to Peru with a call for dialogue

Update to: Congress of Peru admits to process complaint against Castillo Published: volume 7, Issue 7 The organization's mission will prepare a report of its two-day journey. Meanwhile, it will continue to monitor the political situation in the country and its...

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On average, Ecuadorians live longer than 95% of South Americans

On average, Ecuadorians live longer than 95% of South Americans

In Ecuador, life expectancy has risen from 49.2 years in 1950 to 77.9 years in 2022, according to a study by ECLAC, which shows life projections for Ecuadorians. Ecuador has third highest life expectancy in South America, according to a study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), published in November […]

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Ecuador registers the lowest number of deaths on the roads since 2017

Ecuador registers the lowest number of deaths on the roads since 2017

Between January and October 2022, there was also a reduction in traffic accidents. One call changed everything. Paola Simbaña clearly remembers the night of September 24, 2019, when she received the news that her 20-year-old brother Juan Carlos had died in a traffic accident. Due to excessive speed, the interprovincial bus that was taking him […]

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Division between Pachakutik and the Conaie deepens as Iza reaches for more power

Division between Pachakutik and the Conaie deepens as Iza reaches for more power

The upcoming renewal of the Pachakutik board of directors revived the controversies, in what appears to be a new power struggle within the party. It appears that the divisions between Pachakutik and Conaie might be impossible to overcome. One year after the first splits, the two ends of the indigenous movement face one of their […]

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A Simple Box of Food, Part 2

A Simple Box of Food, Part 2

My wife and I own a paradise in an area called the Yunguilla Valley in the Azuay Province in Ecuador. It’s a place where simply giving water and nutrients to plants makes them thrive. And over the last six years, Codie—with the help of a local worker— has turned our land into a lush forest […]

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SRI gets overseas banking information on 70,000 Ecuadorians held accounts

Update to: Briones says ‘SRI will tighten control of personal income tax’ Published: Volume 6, Issue 52 The director of the SRI, Francisco Briones said that they received information from 70,000 accounts, thanks to the cooperation with the member countries of the Global Forum on Transparency and Information Exchange. The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) reported, […]

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