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The National Government confirmed this Thursday, June 27, 2024, Cristian Espinosa Cañizares as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States. The career diplomat will replace Ivonne Baki in the position. Cristian Espinoza was appointed as Ecuador’s new ambassador to the United States. Espinosa has worked for Ecuador’s foreign service since 1987, as a specialist in multilateralism, international trade and trade negotiations. Throughout his career he has

The US diplomat pledged to continue supporting Ecuador on security issues. He replaces Michael Fitzpatrick. The meeting between President Daniel Noboa and Ambassador Brown took place on June 26. The new ambassador of the United States, Arthur Brown, presented his credentials to President Daniel Noboa on June 26. The meeting took place in the Yellow Room of the Carondelet Palace. Brown replaces Michael Fitzpatrick since June 18, when he assumed the diplomatic delegation. “We will continue working

The president, Daniel Noboa, announced that 40,000 women are part of the ‘Futuro Femenino’ higher education scholarship program . Its objective is to guarantee the right to quality higher education for women, especially those in vulnerable situations. The National Government will provide a total of 100,000 scholarships from different programs. These scholarships prioritize women with disabilities, victims of gender violence, people in situations of limited resources, Ecuadorians retu

Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks portal, reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to accept charges for the leak of classified documents from the Government of that country. Computer scientist Julian Assange was released after an agreement with US justice. The agreement included a sentence of 62 months in prison; As Assange had been detained since April 11, 2019 in the Bellmarsch maximum security prison, in the United Kingdom, it is considered that his sentence w

The military actions undertaken in Ecuador in the midst of the “internal armed conflict” declared by the president, Daniel Noboa, have affected the country’s criminal groups by approximately 1.2 billion dollars, the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces reported this Monday. Jaime Vela. Operation of the Armed Forces of Ecuador in Quito. In a press conference, Vela indicated that in the around 159,000 operations carried out, up to last Sunday, around 23,000 soldier

The Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo, questioned the action of justice for releasing criminals detained in joint operations. The Minister of the Interior, Mónica Palencia, for her part, assured that Zone 8 -Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón- will be commanded by a general from the police leadership. The Ministers of the Interior, Mónica Palencia; and Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo; at a press conference in Manabí on June 24, 2024. The Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo, rejected the a

The bakery industry is always looking for new supplies, although it might be rare or expensive, everything depends on the scope or target. The market is looking forward to getting a better offer of baked products such as pancakes, cupcakes, tortillas, cookies, and more similar, but the threat of gluten is always surrounding. The delicate balance between something healthy, inexpensive, and a large-scale product isn’t always easy to fulfill, hopefully, we can talk about a raw material tha

President Daniel Noboa sounded the “chicharra” to begin work on the Santa Elena prison amid shouts of “We don’t want prison.” The prison will have an area of ​​12.2 hectares, five pavilions and capacity for 736 people. President Daniel Noboa, the General Director of the SNAI, in the province of Santa Elena. June 21, 2024. The President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa, pressed a button and a siren sounded. With that symbolic act he began the construction work of the new Santa Elena detention

This Friday, June 21, 2024, construction of the Encuentro maximum security prison, located in Santa Elena, began. The structure will have controls and surveillance with artificial intelligence technology and people deprived of liberty (PPL) will be classified according to their degree of danger and sentence. This will be the maximum-security prison in Santa Elena. The investment in the maximum-security prison is USD 52 million and will have a capacity for nearly 800 highly dangerous PPL or those

Ecuador suffered a massive power outage on June 19, 2024. This was confirmed by the Minister of Energy, Roberto Luque. The failure was due to the departure of a power line. Vehicular chaos in Quito due to power outage on June 19, 2024. Massive power outages in several cities in Ecuador, such as Quito and Quevedo, were recorded on the afternoon of June 19, 2024, users reported on social networks. As reported by PRIMICIAS, the Government confirmed that the country suffered a national blackout caus