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After announcing that it would begin charging a $42 tax on small packages shipped from overseas, the government is sending mixed messages about exemptions of the tax. The tax would affect shipments of less than four kilos, part of the country’s 4×4 package plan (four kilos with a value of less than $400) for Ecuadorian...
In the wake of the World Cup, just when interest in football is at a fevered pitch, the Ecuadorian Football Players’ Association is calling a strike to collect back pay. According to association vice president Edwin Tenorio, the strike begins at midnight on Wednesday. Tenorio says that the issue is more than money and involves...
According to Human Rights Watch, more than a 100 countries impose restrictions on Internet use, particularly on blogs and such social media outlets as Twitter and Facebook. The restrictions, they say, are almost always politically motivated and more countries appear ready to add their own restrictions. In addition to countries that restrict access to Internet...
Although President Rafael Correa says Ecuador would never enter into free trade agreements with other countries, opposition politicians say the agreement reached Thursday with the European Union looks a lot like the one the EU signed six years ago with Peru and Colombia. Ecuador refused to participate in those talks in 2009, calling them free...
By Margaret Zeigler and Ginya Truitt Nakata Population growth and dramatic diet changes are placing agriculture and the natural resource base under great stress worldwide. As the largest net food exporting region on the planet, Latin America and the Caribbean appears poised to play a critical role in feeding a global population of over nine...
By Ramiro Crespo A year after Ecuador passed its controversial media law, the Ley Orgánica de Comunicación (LOC), most of the fears that it provoked as a potential instrument of repression have come true. Freedom House, a U.S. non-governmental organization that supports liberal democracy, since last year has rated Ecuador’s press as “not free” and...
Ecuador, the world’s top banana exporter, and the European Union reached a long-delayed trade agreement, the Ecuadorian Minister of Trade Francisco Rivadeneira said on Thursday. “Ecuador has completed negotiations with the European Union to join the Multilateral Trade Agreement,” Rivadeneira told reporters in Brussels, adding it was the result of an “effort of about...
Planning continues on the three-year-old project to open the alley to the north of Cuenca’s cathedral to crafts shops, art galleries and cafés. The entrance to the alley, to the left of the Raymipampa Restaurant, has been bricked shut for more than a century. The alley was originally called Calle Santa Ana and ran parallel...
Following last week’s announcement that Cuenca’s tram project is five to six months behind schedule, Mayor Marcelo Cabrera says that the number of workers on the project will be increased and work hours will be extended in an effort to make up lost time. Cabrera blames the delays on poor planning during the administration of...
Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera described the first two months of his administration last week, saying that the tram project and taxi meter issues have dominated his agenda. Cabrera said that final tram construction details will worked out after a team from UNESCO visits Cuenca at the end of July or early August. “At that point...
By Jim Wyss It’s the year 2043 and this burgeoning city of 100,000 is a high-tech Mecca. Using rare plants from the Amazon, university researchers have cured many diseases; factories churn out nano-sponges that soak up oil spills around the world; local software designers are the envy of Palo Alto. Ecuador — once known for...
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