Government prepares Investment Promotion Law that it will send to the Assembly (and other news in a summary to start the day)

Guillermo Lasso announced the sending of this bill to the Parliament in the session for the 80 years of the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador, where the head of the Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, was also present, whom she thanked for the processing of the Economic Development Law.

On another issue, the requirement of a driver’s license anticovid vaccination put users of public entities in trouble. Part of citizenship does not know that now a paper of being vaccinated is required to access dependencies.

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Government already has ideas for a new bill

President Guillermo Lasso announced that, in the Investment Promotion Law project that the Government will send to the Assembly soon, an article will be included that provides for the sale of concessioned land to shrimp farms. It would be close to a billion dollars that will go to a Fund to Fight Chronic Malnutrition in Children. This fund will also feed on the monetization of state assets that may be in private hands, such as Banco del Pacífico.

Unvaccinated people cannot enter public institutions

In the public institutions of Ecuador, the entry control began only for people with an anticovid vaccination card, to comply with the provision given by the Government as one of the measures to contain contagions and the omicron variant. In Guayaquil, citizens were surprised by the measure in public offices such as those of the Zonal Government and the Internal Revenue Service, in the north of the city. In a line of 50 people, 10 did not have a license.

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Panama Street lights up for Christmas festivities

Panama Street, one of the new tourist poles of Guayaquil, was illuminated with Christmas colored LED lights in a three-block stretch. The lighting event was held in the plaza of Imbabura street and was led by Gloria Gallardo, president of the Municipal Public Tourism Company.

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Former police officer involved in trafficking of 185 turtles in Galapagos was released

The Specialized Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court of Justice of Guayas ordered the release of Nixon Alejandro PD, a former police officer sentenced to three years in prison for the crime of trafficking of 185 baby turtles, occurred last March in Galapagos. The Court accepted the appeal filed by the person implicated, who had expressed fear for his life in prison, due to the prison crisis and the massacres registered in the prisons. (I)