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Ecuador’s Sarayaku community is seeking legal protection for Amazonian plants and animals
By Emily Laber-Warren The Sarayaku territory in Ecuador is a 500-square-mile roadless jungle reachable only by helicopter, small aircraft, or a full day’s canoe trip on the Bobonaza River. For outsiders, opportunities to connect with this community of about 1,200 people are rare. So, when...
Argentinian entreprenuer wants Latin Americans to skip bricks-and-mortar banks and go digital
By Agustin Geist Digital banking startup Uala will double the size of its operations in Argentina and Mexico with a $64 million investment as it seeks to convince more people across Latin America to skip traditional banking in favor of digital, the head of the company said on Friday. Pierpaolo...
Medical Federation and Chamber of Commerce say weekend lockdowns have failed, ask for relaxed rules
In a Thursday news conference, the Ecuador Medical Federation and the Quito Chamber of Commerce asked the government to relax weekend confinement aimed at controlling the Covid-19 pandemic. “The restriction is causing great harm to Ecuadorian families, depriving them of the right to earn an...
Mothers Day serenades allowed; ETAPA is solvent again; Complaints lodged about vaccination lines; National Assembly debates online sexual crime law
Jueves, 6/5/2021 Hola, Todos - I'm tired so this is going to be a short issue. Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - "De una quiebra salió ETAPA EP" ("ETAPA EP came out of insolvency") - The Board of Directors of ETAPA will pick a new general manager tomorrow since José Luis Espinoza, who...
Thousands of U.S. citizens living abroad are waiting months to have their passports renewed
Yona Shemesh, 24, was born in Los Angeles, but he moved to Israel with his family at age 9. In July 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic was raging, he booked a ticket to Los Angeles to visit his grandparents in June 2021, knowing that he would have nearly an entire year to renew his American passport,...
Cuenca’s hospitals overflow with Covid patients but most of them are not from Cuenca
Although the daily news reports from Cuenca’s two public and three private hospitals that accept Covid-19 paint a dire picture, most of those hospitalization are of people from out of town. The majority of patients are from Loja, El Oro, Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe Provinces, with Clinica...
Guayaquil hit team misses its target, kills Peruvian woman by mistake; Moreno takes a shot at Ecuadorians; Former health minister censured
Four gunmen, two dressed as policemen, entered a hospital in Guayaquil Wednesday morning and killed a Peruvian woman they mistook for their intended target. The armed men asked the nurses at a reception desk for the room number of the man they intended to kill but it turned out he was released on...
Guayaquil mayor investigated; Without internet, rural school children suffer; 45 face curfew violation charges; Cuenca doctors demand full-time jobs
Miércoles, 5/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Taller de Crónica (Chronicle Workshop) - The site Los Cronistas has an online workshop called "La delgada línea entre la realidad y la ficción" (The thin line between reality and fiction) <There are too many people who just...
Pressure mounts for U.S. to send more vaccines to Latin America as it agrees to suspend drug patents
Rising rates of Covid-19 infections in Brazil and other countries in Latin America are prompting calls for the U.S. to send more doses of vaccines south. Among the arguments for the shipments is the risk posed by millions of Latinos traveling to and from the U.S. According to the latest population...
Princesa Andina
I’ve been a photographer of women from the beginning. Although the fact is, I like to photograph everything. Mastering the abilities to make great visual recordings of all things is good business. It is sufficient unto itself to be a photographer, no descriptors are needed. Qualifiers like...
Nobel Prize winners demand investigation of case against lawyer for Ecuadorian indigenous villages
By Kenny Stancil Dozens of Nobel laureates on Tuesday demanded that the U.S. Department of Justice intervene immediately to stop the prosecution of human rights attorney Steven Donziger by a corporate law firm with ties to Chevron, which has relentlessly demonized Donziger since his legal team...
Some criticize Lasso’s quest for Chinese and Russian vaccines, others say it’s the path out of the pandemic
Three Quito physicians are questioning President-elect Guillermo Lasso’s efforts to purchase Covid-19 vaccines from China and Russia, claiming the doses have not been adequately vetted by researchers. In a letter to Lasso, the doctors claim the Chinese Sinovac and Russian Sputnik V vaccines “have...
Expat Life
Thousands of U.S. citizens living abroad are waiting months to have their passports renewed
Yona Shemesh, 24, was born in Los Angeles, but he moved to Israel with his family at age 9. In July 2020, as the...
Princesa Andina
I’ve been a photographer of women from the beginning. Although the fact is, I like to photograph everything. Mastering...
The howl of expat cheapskates in the Land of Cheap
One of the more curious subspecies of Ecuador expat is the small but noisy contingent that is utterly obsessed with...
I am tired of all the sickness, the anti-science, the hatred and the idiocy
I am tired. My good friend, Jeff Salz, died of the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday, and I have not slept well since. I am...
Health News
Interest is mushrooming in mushrooms, both magic and otherwise, for health and profit
By Julie Creswell Inside a state-of-the-art lab, tucked in an industrial neighborhood on Vancouver Island in British...
Five important side effects of eating more bread, some good, some not so good
By Tobi Amidor Although bread gets shunned by many, choosing the right type of bread can have positive effects on your...
Opinion
The howl of expat cheapskates in the Land of Cheap
One of the more curious subspecies of Ecuador expat is the small but noisy contingent that is utterly obsessed with...
Marxist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo appears headed to victory in Peru
The trouble with using a word as a catchall insult is that it loses its force. If everyone is a racist, then no one...
Vaccine passports will help us reach herd immunity
By Nicholas Goldberg To hear some people tell it, vaccine passports are just another effort by Democrats, progressives...
Community Posts
Thinking about investing – looking for legal advice?
Are you thinking on investing in real estate – don’t put your money at risk! We have over 15 years...
Cuenca Expat Insurance Is Your Healthcare Miracle
Finding a healthcare plan is difficult and stressful in the best scenario, but when it involves a...
Ecuapaca Works With You to Find Your Perfect Piece of Ecuadorian Artisanship
Have you ever wandered through an artisan market, looking for the perfect color scheme, pattern,...
Fines
Another change inside this law is that the fines are not as expensive as before. For example, a...
