While the restrictions of this past week will not show up in the number of new cases and related deaths for two to three weeks, there was some improvement in both the number of new cases and deaths from COVID-19 over last week. That glimmer of hope comes at a time when the country is […]

The cost of the basic family basket, which includes goods and services representative of household consumption in a month, was $712.07 last February, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. Meanwhile, the average pensions of all retirees reach $655.20 per month, according to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), below what a four-member household needs to […]

Vaccination against COVID-19, the role of the Central Bank of Ecuador, reactivation and employment, environmental rights, education and abortion are some of the issues that were debated in the electoral campaign, which ends on Thursday the 8th of April. The presidential candidates Andrés Arauz, from UNES (1-5), and Guillermo Lasso, from CREO-PSC (21-6), presented their positions […]