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Ecuador: Cellphones going to ten digits

The National Telecommunications Secretariat (Senatel) introduced today a part of the National Numbering Plan, through which a new digit increase in cellular telephony. This is the number 9, which users placed after the zero. Thus be 10 digits that the user will have to remember to make a call.
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This measure will come into effect on 30 September. The purpose of the change is to expand the capacity of cell numbers in the country, which currently amount to 16.4 million lines, according to Ruben Leon Senatel holder.. Read Article

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Ecuador to offer fuel subsidies to airlines flying direct, five routes being considered

NEW AIRLINE ROUTES UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR DIRECT TRAVEL TO ECUADOR – According to ElUniverso.comm the Production Sector Council will be responsible for prioritizing new air routes to enter the incentive scheme announced by the government earlier this month. The idea is to grant a subsidy of 40% of a gallon of fuel for three years […]

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Two tourists attacked by alligator in Yasuni National Park Ecuador

Eluniverso.com reported an alligator attacked two tourists ages 26 and 28 years in a lagoon at an ecolodge Napo Wildlife Center, community Añangu Orellana province, showed ‘overexposure’ and ‘neglect’ of each of the parties, the ministry Environment in a statement. The attack took place on August 12, while the visitors, a man and a woman […]

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Banos Ecuador Alert: Tungurahua volcano continues activity, ash, gases

Columns of ash and gases up to a mile above the crater continued yesterday emanating Tungurahua volcano. Meanwhile, in the towns and agricultural areas located west of the giant ash fell persistently, that the damages were rising, until last Sunday, leaving 6,200 ha of crops lost and at least 10,000 cattle without food. Read Article

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Beware of scopolamine assaults Ecuador

Eluniverso.com reported that two chemical tests were performed in different nursing homes to determine the chemicals that caused the death of Ronald Veintimilla Alexis Diaz, 29, early Sunday, the day after his friend Rolando socialize with Leonel González Vélez assaulted them. Lorena Vargas Morán González’s wife, says they went to Junior’s nightclub in Alborada, where […]

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Ecuador: Body of U.S. expatriate found floating at sea by fisherman

Eldiario.ec reported the body of a missing American was found yesterday floating in the sea to 9 miles off the beach “Las Piñas” commune near the parish of San Lorenzo Manta. his is Thomas James Mosher, 46, a tourism entrepreneur who had disappeared at sea on July 31 in Salinas, while testing a jet ski. […]

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Ecuador: expatriate from the United States missing of of coast

The orense Elsa Lopez, wife of U.S. businessman James Thomas Mosher, 46, reported to the Office of Salinas the disappearance of her husband. Mosher owns a tour operator that specializes in renting jet skis at the resort peninsula. According to Lopez, the incident occurred Sunday morning when her husband went to sea in one of […]

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U.S. statistics for deaths of Americans, Ecuador – 2011

Ecuador Ecuador Report – Death by Non-Natural Causes (From 1-2011 To 12-2011) Date City Cause of Death 12-30-2011 Santa Elena, Ecuador Drowning 12-25-2011 Guayaquil, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Auto 11-03-2011 Salinas, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Pedestrian 09-09-2011 Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador Homicide 08-04-2011 Agrio, Sucumbios, Ecuador Drowning 07-14-2011 Santo Domingo, De Los Colorados, Ecuador Vehicle Accident […]

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German tourist arrested in attempt to smuggle four Iguanas from Galapagos Islands

The Ecuadorian authorities yesterday arrested German citizen Dirk Bender, who allegedly tried to smuggle from the Galapagos land iguanas Conoluphus four subcristatus, a species considered “vulnerable”, said today the Galapagos National Park (DNPG). For this reason a criminal judge in the Galapagos ordered the preventive detention of Bender. German tourist’s arrest occurred Sunday at the […]

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Ecuador: Spanish climber dies in summit attempt of Chimborazo volcano

Ecuador Police confirmed the death of Spanish hiker Sunday Jairo Pena, age 31, while attempting a climb to the summit of the volcano Chimborazo, the highest mountain in the Andean country. Alfonso Camacho, head of the Police Command in the province of Chimborazo, told a news conference that the body of Spanish was rescued this […]

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