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Xinhua
February 15, 2018
QUITO, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- A total of 33 people were killed and another 291 injured in 383 traffic accidents over the carnival holidays in Ecuador, the Ministry of Transport and Public Works said Thursday. The accidents, which took place between Feb. 10 and Feb. 13, marked a 27 percent drop comparedÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 10, 2018
Ecuador wants Julian Assange out of London embassy ... The Ecuadorian government sounds like it has finally had enough of Julian Assange. For five ... Speaking to reporters in Quito yesterday, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said her country is looking for a third nation, or person,ÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2018
QUITO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's National Assembly on Saturday elected Maria Alejandra Vicuna to serve as the country's vice president, after her predecessor Jorge Glas was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption. Vicuna, 39, was minister of Urban Development and Housing until PresidentÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
January 3, 2018
QUITO: Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno confirmed on Wednesday (Jan 3) that Jorge Glas, his vice president jailed for six years for graft, has been stripped of ... and imprisoned in a regional scandal involving a Brazilian construction group, Odebrecht, which gave bribes to secure public works contracts.
PanAm Post
December 29, 2017
Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno has signed a decree that moves towards deregulating the airline industry in the Andean nation. ... be the Ministries of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, together with the ministries of Tourism and Foreign Trade.
Yahoo News UK
December 22, 2017
The money was received between 2004 and 2013, a period in part of which Kuczynski was economy minister and head of cabinet for then-president ... has admitted to paying millions of dollars in bribes to officials in several Latin American countries to secure lucrative and inflated public works contracts.
WFTV Orlando
December 22, 2017
The Brazilian firm admitted in a 2016 U.S. Justice Department agreement to paying nearly $800 million in kickbacks to politicians, their campaigns and political parties to secure lucrative public works contracts. In Ecuador, Vice President Jorge Glas has been sentenced to six years in prison for orchestratingÃÂ ...
KOKI FOX 23
December 20, 2017
In a 2016 plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, the construction giant admitted to paying nearly $800 million to politicians, their campaigns and political parties in return for lucrative public works contracts that earned the company some $3.3 billion in profits. In Ecuador, Vice President Jorge Glas hasÃÂ ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
December 17, 2017
QUITO – Ecuador's Legislative Administrative Council (CAL) confirmed on Sunday legal proceedings against Vice President Jorge Glas, who has been divested ... The Odebrecht case concerns bribes paid by Brazilian construction giant in many Latin American countries, including Ecuador, to obtain public works contracts.
ExpressNewsline
December 15, 2017
The National Court ruled that Glas leveraged his time as a cabinet minister and later as vice president to allow subordinates to collect bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for major public works and construction contracts. After the ruling was read, the vice-president's defense attorney said that he wouldÃÂ ...
CNN
December 15, 2017
Ecuador's suspended Vice President Jorge Glas, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for receiving $13.5 million in bribes from ... Kuczynski served as finance and prime minister during Toledo's presidency. ... Odebrecht received public works contracts from the Colombian government.
Business News Americas
December 6, 2017
Ecuador inks contract to finish US$280mn light rail. By Javiera Gracia Wednesday, December 6, 2017. BNamericas. Notify me Bookmark. Share ... Ecuador's public works minister Paul Granda (pictured) and Cuenca mayor Marcelo Cabrera signed a contract to finish construction of a 20km .
FreshPlaza
November 13, 2017
The first Banana Technical Table, led by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ruben Flores, established a twelve-point road map to benefit the sector. ... Flores said that the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP), and the Ministry of Foreign Trade, were analyzing theÃÂ ...
World Highways
August 29, 2017
Responsibility for investments and maintenance for 2,400km of roads will be given over to private firms over the next four years by the Ecuador Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP). A number of road concessions have already been awarded to private firms, including for the Rumichaca-RiobambaÃÂ ...
Business News Americas
December 7, 2017
Ecuador inks contract to finish US$280mn light rail. By Javiera Gracia Wednesday, December 6, 2017. BNamericas. Notify me Bookmark. Share ... Ecuador's public works minister Paul Granda (pictured) and Cuenca mayor Marcelo Cabrera signed a contract to finish construction of a 20km .
FreshPlaza
November 17, 2017
The president of the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE), Eduardo Ledesma, said that if the excessive charges continue, the banana ... Prior to the march, the Minister of Transport and Public Works, Paul Granda, said the government would set up a commission to review the concession.
FreshPlaza
November 13, 2017
The first Banana Technical Table, led by the Minister of Agriculture and ... Service, and an international campaign in defense of the Ecuadorian product. ... the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP), and the Ministry of ...
Fresh Fruit Portal
November 8, 2017
The Ecuadorian Association of Banana Exporters (AEBE) is planning ... and the Ministry of Public Works in the hope negotiations could begin before ... have led to a 15% reduction in Ecuador's participation in the U.S. market.
Raddington Report (blog)
November 6, 2017
... out “bad hombres“ and paper towels to mop up hurricane damage where the ... China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, called Latin America “the natural ... increased and with some exceptions (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia), has ...
Insightcrime.org
October 25, 2017
The two federal officials respectively served as minister of planning and public investment and secretary of public works throughout the entirety ...
Telecompaper
October 19, 2017
... ITU secretary-general Houlin Zhao, Bolivia's minister of public works, ... international roaming fees between Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and ...
Business News Americas
October 11, 2017
Ecuador unveiled a port development plan for the city of Guayaquil that ... a press release from the public works and transports ministry (MTOP).
The Costa Rica Star
October 10, 2017
... be restoring material at the approach to the bridge that was washed out by heavy rains, said the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works.
The Tico Times
October 8, 2017
Vice Minister of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) Silvia ... it's the same population of sailfish that swim between Ecuador and Mexico.
Xinhua
October 4, 2017
Ecuadorian Housing and Urban Development Minister Maria Vicuna was ... in exchange for granting the company lucrative public works contracts. ... out some 33.5 million U.S. dollars in bribes in Ecuador from 2007 to 2016, ...
Hotel Management Magazine
September 6, 2017
European operators are eyeing Ecuador's tourism potential as they consider ... Pita, the head of the Ecuadoran construction chamber, said, according to the ... Ecuador's transport and public works ministry has planned to ...
teleSUR English
August 31, 2017
If the construction company withdraws, Ecuador will have to cover the repair costs, according to Perez. The minister added that US$60 million ...
World Highways
August 29, 2017
Responsibility for investments and maintenance for 2,400km of roads will be given over to private firms over the next four years by the Ecuador Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP). A number of road concessions have already been awarded to private firms, including for the Rumichaca-Riobamba ...
PanAm Post
January 27, 2017
Rafael Correa's Government Implicated in Public Works Corruption ... to light, Rafael Correa asked the Attorney General of Ecuador to investigate him, ... Among them: Carlos Pareja, the former Minister of Hydrocarbons, who has ... the audit, giving the work to an Ecuadorian company called Azul, owned by ...
Financial Express
December 31, 1999
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strategy of expanding India's trade ... of the PTA and negotiations on margin of preference (MoP) on the tariff lines to ... Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador are associate members of ...
Baptist Standard
March 10, 2017
On July 4, 1988, when they were serving as Southern Baptist missionaries to Ecuador, James stopped at a gas station is Esmeraldas to fill up before meeting another missionary family to enjoy a day at the beach.
World Socialist Web Site
March 1, 2017
The current President Kuczynski (popularly known as PPK) is also facing investigation for having approved contracts with Odebrecht while he was Toledo's Minister of Economy and Finance in 2005. Already a ... According to Expreso, in Ecuador, the ...
Open Democracy
February 24, 2017
The prime minister's office is moved into the former royal palace and the National Gallery and the National Library are thrown out from the building to make place for him and his personal state administration which is more and more distinct from, and ...
Daily Herald
February 24, 2017
Lourdes Vasquez, who is disabled, casts her vote ahead of Sunday's election, from her house in Quito, Ecuador on Friday.
WUNC
February 20, 2017
Leftist Lenin Moreno crossed his fingers Monday for outright victory in Ecuador's presidential vote as impatience grew over a delay in publishing full results that could force a runoff.
New Jersey Herald
February 17, 2017
10, 2014 file photo, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa waits for the start of a head of state visit at the entrance of the government palace in Quito, Ecuador. For the first time in a decade, Correa won't be running when Ecuadoreans head .... Instead ...
The Straits Times
February 13, 2017
Investigators allege that Latin America's largest construction company Odebrecht paid US$35 million (S$50 million) to husband-and-wife successive presidents Nestor and Cristina Kirchner.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 30, 2017
"When the National Assembly met, the Marines stood in the aisles with their bayonets until the man selected by the American Minister was made President," recalled Smedley Butler, the Marine hero who led the decisive military campaign and administered ...
World Policy Institute (blog)
January 30, 2017
In a separate judicial process that lasted 18 years, Menem was sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison for ordering the smuggling of weapons for profit to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995, violating an international arms embargo. ... Julio ...
PanAm Post
January 27, 2017
The journalist said that "In Ecuador there is no bidding. All major projects are contracted directly by the authorities. In this case, the central responsibility rests on President Rafael Correa and on the candidate for the vice-presidency Jorge Glas ...
FOX 29
January 26, 2017
Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) shared a satirical Onion story about himself to his social media pages, joking that he's seeking asylum from Donald Trump in Ecuador. The satirical website posted a story that showed an .... Also in the first 200 days Congress ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
January 25, 2017
Although the attorney general did not reveal the names of the 17 accused, media reports identified them as Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, his brother Mario who was the Minister of Public Works, Federico Suarez and the former ...
MENAFN.COM
January 5, 2017
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Doha: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued yesterday Decree No. 1 of 2017, ratifying a memorandum of understanding in the field of veterinary health and livestock production between Qatar's Ministry of MunicipalityÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
January 4, 2017
1. Decree No 1 of 2017, ratifying a memorandum of understanding in the field of veterinary health and livestock production between Qatar's ministry of municipality and environment and Georgia's ministry of agriculture, which was signed in Doha on March ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
January 3, 2017
According to the enforcement actions, since 2001, the companies are alleged to have made improper payments to secure public works or infrastructure contracts in Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico ...
Rudaw
January 1, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A proposed pipeline to export Kurdish oil through Iran that has not yet been endorsed by Baghdad will reportedly be on the agenda when Iran's oil minister visits the country next week to meet with his Iraqi counterpart ...
ch-aviation
December 30, 2016
According to El Pais, during their presentation to Uruguayan Minister of Transport and Public Works, Victor Rossi, Amaszonas Group said it would inject USD18.4 million into its Uruguayan operations in 2017 while boosting the number of aircraft based ...
The Real News Network
December 25, 2016
I'm Gregory Wilpert, coming to you from Quito, Ecuador. ... So, investigations in Brazil have really been unfolding in the last two years, at least, during this, so-called, "Car Wash Operation" from the Public Ministry, the prosecutors in Brazil. As ...
Kurdistan24
December 25, 2016
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) - Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu on Saturday questioned whether it was important to say the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must step down to secure peace in the war-torn country.
Deutsche Welle
December 23, 2016
Experts on corporate bribery said the Odebrecht admissions of giving bribes in a dozen countries - including Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Angola and Mexico as well as Brazil - could subject ...
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