Large commercial shrimp farms will an end to fuel subsidies that heave helped them grow to Ecuador’s second largest industry.

 Shrimp farms that are not artisanal, or that do not belong to the small industry, will no longer receive a diesel fuel subsidy. On the morning of December 1, 2022, President Guillermo Lasso signed a decree eliminating diesel subsidies to large shrimp farms. The measure will go into effect on December 2, 2022.

The elimination of the subsidy for large shrimp farms was a demand from the indigenous movements that promoted the 18-day national strike in June 2022 which left more than $1.115...

To establish the ‘ranking’ of the most expensive countries to fly to in Latin America, ticket fee, airport taxes and security fees that passengers must pay evaluated.

Passengers traveling by plane to Ecuador must pay $123 for fees, taxes and contributions. This was reported by the ‘Air Transport Competitiveness Index in Latin America,’ published on November 23, 2022.

That makes Ecuador the second most expensive Latin American country for air passengers, only behind Argentina. In that country, passengers must pay $198.

Conversely, the countries in the region with the lowest costs for passengers are Jamaica, Brazil and Chile, according to...

The former police colonel was assassinated after serving 22 days in his position as director.

 A former Colonel of the Police, Santiago Loza, had come out of retirement to run the Pichincha No. 1 Male Provisional Detention Center, known as the El Inca prison. Twenty-two days after taking office, Loza was assassinated by hitmen in the Gualo sector, in the north of Quito, on Simón Bolívar Avenue, one of the city’s busiest streets.

 His short tenure was not easy. He assumed the leadership of a prison where violence has escalated in the last two years as the epicenter of two prison massacres. One...