Ecuadorian governmental Ministries

Daniel Legarda, executive president of the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor), hopes that this renewal will motivate the negotiations between the national government and the private sector to sign a commercial agreement with the United States. “Ecuador's economy cannot continue to live off ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Journalists kidnapped a week ago along Ecuador's increasingly conflictive border with Colombia have appeared in a video appealing to Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno. In the 22-second proof-of-life video, the three men, chained together at their necks, relayed their captors' ...

The South Korean government has raised its travel warning for Ecuador due to the worsening security situation in some areas of the South American country. Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it has issued a special advisory against South Korean nationals traveling to the cities of San Lorenzo and ...

The Foreign Ministry described allegations that Ecuador is denying Assange his rights by blocking his internet and phone access as "unacceptable" and ... The Ecuadorean government restricted Assange's access to communications on March 28 after he breached an agreement not to publicly discuss the ...

The 30-page report, “Amazonians on Trial: Judicial Harassment of Indigenous Leaders and Environmentalists in Ecuador,” shows that prosecutors in three ... Ecuadorian authorities should ensure that none of these leaders serve prison time on charges they cannot substantiate or have not been made to ...

Local taxi drivers in the Andean capital of Ecuador, Quito, marched to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, located in the heart of the city, ... Carlos Brunis, president of the Union of Cooperatives de Taxis de Pichincha, told El Commercio, the Ecuadorean daily, that the demonstration aims to bring to ...

Colombian govt, guerrilla group ELN resume peace talks in Ecuador. Foreign. 12 hours ago BY Agencies ... The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said that, after talks restart, both sides will issue a joint statement. ... Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said Thursday that “peace is closer” in Colombia.

The teams, led by Gustavo Bell for the government and Pablo Beltran for the ELN, began talks for the first time since Jan. 10, when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos stopped them following a series of terrorist attacks on police by the ELN. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said that, after talks restart, ...

On Twitter, Ecuador's Interior Ministry informed there were no deaths or grave injuries, and damage to the building is minor. They also announced the detention of three individuals. “To this moment there are three detained. We are taking planned and articulated actions, and in the next hours we will give a ...

... and cooperation with the Ecuadorian Red Cross. With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV), MDA assists Ecuador's Paramedic Training Institute with preparing and training for mass casualty incidents and advanced paramedic training ...

Similarly, the Minister for Justice and Human Rights of Ecuador said laws had been passed on ending violence against women and improving their access to justice. Targeted programmes were reaching rural women through partnerships, including in the finance sector, to improve their access to funding ...

Present on the occasion were Rana Tanveer Hussain, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Defence Production, along with the delegation from Pakistan for Dimdex; Major General Abdullah bin Hassan al-Sulaiti, Commander of the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces; Patricio Zambrano, Ecuador's Minister of Defence; ...

LIMA, Peru, February 22, 2018 (ENS) – Peru and Ecuador each marked the start of the year 2018 by creating national parks to protect undeveloped parts of the ... These groups worked alongside the Peruvian Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Culture, the Peruvian Protected Area Service and the many ...

In the meeting, Larrea reported about the new system for bilateral agreement for investments, presented by Ecuador and reiterated the desire of President Lenin ... The Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Movement ratified that the national Government is interested in the proposal by Chinese ...

Quito, Mar 13.- Ecuador and Chile are looking forward to advancing in their commercial and economic relations, alongside social projects and regional integration, said on Monday the Ecuadorian Foreign Affairs Ministry. The commitment by both countries was announced as part of a summary of ...

Answering a question at a press conference in Beijing on the tariffs, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi commented that China did not want a trade war, but ... During Tillerson's Latin America tour, the Ecuadoran foreign minister rebuked the top US diplomat's warning, saying that Chinese investment spurred ...

The ministries works with Fe Dice, an organization that works with the local people of Ecuador on micro-loans, matching grants and community improvement ... The bride and groom wore traditional ecuadorian dress -- the groom wore a blue poncho and white pants and the bride wore blue and white.

Israeli Ambassador in Quito Edwin Yabo and MDA accepted the awards of appreciation for MDA's ongoing support of ISTCRE's activities and cooperation with the Ecuadorian Red Cross. With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV), MDA ...

27, 2017, in Quito, Ecuador, but they were called off by President Santos on Jan. 10 after the Colombian government accused ELN fighters carrying out attacks on oil infrastructure and Colombian security forces. Since then, the ELN's Chief Negotiator Pablo Beltran has repeatedly expressed his willingness ...

In LatinFinance's annual survey of finance ministries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico edges out other countries by keeping a lid on inflation and strengthening the local .... While the economy grew only 1.4% in 2017, Ecuador was in recession the year before, according to the World Bank.

Rebeca Illescas, Ecuador's new minister of mines, says she hopes to persuade the government of President Lenin Moreno to abolish the windfall profits tax. “I've talked about this in Ecuador but it could be news to foreign mining companies,” Illescas told The Northern Miner in an interview at Toronto's ...

The requirement had originally been scheduled to come into force from 6 February, but, according to an Ecuadoran Ministry of Tourism announcement, initial reports “related to this issue by different media caused concern within the tourist sector” as well as among the country's citizenry, thus the decision ...

Next week, a group of Ecuadorian government officials and business stakeholders will travel to Doha to seeking to revive the bilateral trade, tourism sector and investment in Ecuador. The delegation will be led by Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Pablo Campansa Saenz. The minister's visit is a ...

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 compared ...

The decision was made by foreign ministers Maria Fernanda Espinosa and Maria Angela Holguin, of Ecuador and Colombia respectively, at a meeting in Pereira, Colombia on Wednesday. Ecuadorean Minister of Defense Patricio Zambrano and Colombian Minister of Defense Luis Carlos Villegas both ...

14, 2018 – Gay people in Ecuador are forced to undergo “conversion therapy” in secret clinics where they are raped and beaten, even though homosexuality ... Ecuador's health ministry said no “conversion therapy” was found in the more than 60 clinics it has shut since mid-2016 for insanitary conditions or ...

HAVANA TIMES – Ecuador suspended communications to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, held up in asylum since 2012 in the Ecuadorian ... Hours later, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry announced that it will meet next week in London with Assange's lawyers to explore “additional measures.”.

However, the Ecuadorian State did provide information before the Human Rights Committee in August 2016. It was noted that Ecuador judicialized four cases, although it “[regretted] not having received detailed information about the penal actions taken against those responsible for these 'treatments' and ...

Ecuador's hydrocarbons ministry reported that 25 firms expressed interest in licensing round Campos Oil & Gas 2018 for acreage operated by ... Subscriber-Only Content. BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and features every month, always concentrating on how to make or save ...