Durán is one of the cantons most revealing of the contradictions of today’s Ecuador. On the one hand, it has strategic location, industrial strength, logistical connection with Guayaquil and an economy capable of generating billions of dollars in value added. On the other hand, it maintains a hard social reality: structural poverty, deficit of basic services, insecurity, low technical training and households that need decent employment to sustai…
Durán is one of the cantons most revealing of the contradictions of today’s Ecuador. On the one hand, it has strategic location, industrial strength, logistical connection with Guayaquil and an economy capable of generating billions of dollars in value added. On the other hand, it maintains a hard social reality: structural poverty, deficit of basic services, insecurity, low technical training and households that need decent employment to sustai…