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Council moves to clean up messy utility wires

Ecuador’s National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) says it plans a nationwide program to consolidate and bury utility cables. The council said it is also studying ways that cables and transmission lines can be shared by utility companies. In a press release,...

Cordero resigns after Social Security embarrassments

Following two embarrassing policy reversals by his agency, the director of Ecuador’s Institute of Social Security (IESS), Fernando Cordero, has resigned. The former president of the National Assembly and former mayor of Cuenca, Cordero said that it was time for him to...

Yasuní organizers charge government harassment

The organizers of a petition drive to save the Yasuní nature preserve from oil drilling are claiming they are being harassed by the government. The drive is within its last month and is closing in on its goal of obtaining the 580,000 voter signatures necessary to...

Ecuador AG travels to U.S. to seek extradition of Isaias brothers

Ecuador Attorney General Galo Chiriboga will travel to the United States on Tuesday  to press the case for extratiditon of Roberto and William Isaías, former Ecuadorian bankers accused of fraud and embezzlement during the 1999 banking crisis. The brothers fled Ecuador...

Landslides close roads in the Sierra

Heavy rains have caused more than a dozen major landslides in the Sierra, the largest obstructing traffic south of Quito and in the tourist town of Baños. Closer to Cuenca, highway E35 was closed for several hours near Cumbe with another slide stopping traffic near...

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Week of April 26

Reservoir drop renews pressure on Ecuador’s electric grid.

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New naval station aims to shut down drug routes through Gulf of Guayaquil.

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Ecuador turns to targeted tax changes to raise $1.5 billion under IMF program.

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