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President Noboa signed a decree cutting IVA from 15% to 8% at registered hotels, restaurants, and tourism businesses from February 14-17. Check your receipts — and complain to SRI if they're still charging 15%.

A proposed emergency economic law would force municipalities to spend 70% of their budgets on infrastructure, slashing funding for social services. Azuay's prefecture is among those pushing back hard.

Ramón Pucha spends days alone in the jungle collecting seeds from endangered trees. His wife plants them. His son gives tours. The government calls their farm a 'living laboratory' — but won't fund it. Their story says a lot about Ecuador right now.

Interior Minister John Reinberg wants to recentralize traffic management, citing corruption in some local agencies. Cuenca's EMOV says the city shouldn't be punished for problems elsewhere.

The government revoked Loma Larga's environmental license and the vice minister of mines resigned, but opposition groups say the mining concession itself hasn't been canceled. Here's where things stand.