Ecuador is the Latin American country where citizens feel more insecure on the streets at night, above Venezuela, according to a survey published this Friday by Gallup. Almost two out of three (64%) Ecuadorians consulted in 2022 said they did not feel safe walking alone at night where they live, while 35% did, says the […]
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Caja Huancayo will arrive this year in Bolivia and Chile
Huancayo Box reported that this 2023 plans to expand its services to markets such as Bolivia and Chile, after a first step by inaugurating its first international headquarters in Huaquilla, Ecuador. The municipal fund exceeded S/7 million in credit placements and a delinquency rate of 3.5% in the last year, which places it as one […]
Ecuador confirms first case of avian influenza in humans
Ecuador reported a first case of bird flu in a human being, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, a month after the country declared an animal health emergency over the disease in birds. The Ministry of Health said in a statement that the first case of influenza A-H5 It occurred in a nine-year-old girl in […]
FTA with China, Ecuador’s springboard to reach an agreement with the US
Ecuador prepares a pole vault. Driven by the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that has just been signed with China, it will try to reach a similar agreement with the United States, its main partner. “We hope that this is a sign that we are seriously seeking to reach an agreement with that (American) market, which […]
Ecuador will respond to the asylum granted by Argentina to former Correa minister
The Government of Ecuador anticipated that it will respond with Ecuadorian legislation, international law and the respective conventions to the asylum granted by the Government of Argentina to María de los Ángeles Duarte, who was a minister during the presidential term of Rafael Correa and convicted of corruption. In a statement, the Ecuadorian Ministry of […]
Midagri would deliver free fertilizers to farmers and no longer with a subsidy
The head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), Oscar Zea, announced this Friday, May 6, that purchases of fertilizers from abroad, such as ureawill be carried out from Government to Government. “There have been talks with the governments of Morocco, Venezuela and Bolivia. Once the Emergency Decree is approved, the purchase will […]
Cocoa, from raw material to forest conservation agent in Ecuador
Cocoa, that small grain with multiple properties and a thousand-use raw material, transcends the culinary, food or cosmetic field to become an agent of forest conservation in Ecuador. In addition to being the first exporter of cocoa beans from America, Ecuador this year became the pioneer in the export of deforestation-free organic fine aroma cocoa. […]
COVID-19: Ecuador reports its first five cases of BA.2, a subvariant of omicron
Updated on 03/16/2022 03:43 pm The BA.2 subvariant of ómicron is already in Ecuador, with the first five cases reported in southern Guayaquil, the country’s second largest city, the Ministry of Public Health reported in a statement. The cases were reported on Tuesday by the universities that are in charge of doing the genome sequencing […]
Ecuadorian banana growers ask for help due to collapse of sales to Russia and Ukraine
Banana producers in southwestern Ecuador asked the national government for help in the face of a possible crisis in the sector, due to the imminent collapse of sales to Russia and Ukraine, destinations to which 25% of total fruit exports are directed. from the country. The Committee of Small Banana Producers of the coastal province […]
Lessons from Ecuador for the world on COVID management
Ecuador is beginning to vaccinate children ages three and older—they are likely to continue the campaign with even younger children—and is easing COVID restrictions. It’s a stunning turnaround for a health care system that was so overwhelmed at the start of the pandemic that desperate people had to leave the plastic-wrapped corpses of loved ones […]