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Ecuador's main indigenous advocacy group urged its supporters on Monday to spoil their ballots in an April 11 presidential runoff, after a court denied indigenous candidate Yaku Perez's request for a recount of first-round election results.
The number of people vaccinated against the coronavirus in Ecuador has surpassed 100,000, President Lenin Moreno said.Today, a year after the start of the fight against COVID-19, we are vaccinating people. The number of those vaccinated in the country has already surpassed 100,000, Moreno wrote on ..
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QUITO, March 6 (Reuters) - Ecuador has received a donation of some 20,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine from Chile, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno said on Saturday, in a sign of the stark disparities in South American countries’ inoculation campaigns.
Chile, one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, ranks sixth in the world for per-capita vaccine shots administered, according to Reuters data, with a quarter of the population now having received a dose.
By contrast, Ecuador’s slow rollout has prompted criticism of Moreno by municipal authorities, who are planning to import vaccines on their own. The Andean country had administered some 65,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine as of Friday, namely to healthcare workers and nursing home residents.
President Lenin Moreno called on the assembly to
defend dollarization and support the bill that was sent to the legislature for approval. The Head of State recalled that this legal body seeks to
protect the money of Ecuadorians and guarantee autonomy in the
Central Bank.
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9 out of 10 Ecuadorians defend dollarization because it gives economic stability to homes, work, production and keeps us away from the
fearsome inflation, ” declared the President, in a national broadcast broadcast this Wednesday, March 10, 2021.
This initiative, prepared by the
Ministry of Economy and Finance , aims to prevent Central Bank deposits from being used “as
petty cash ” for public spending. The resources found there correspond to international reserves, savings from private banks and money from the