Cuenca ranks in top 10 Latin American cities For the first time, Cuenca has made the top 10 list of Latin American cities for having the best projects to increase green space within its urban and suburban boundaries. According to Bianca Dager, executive director of Premios Latinoamérica Verde, Cuenca is making “bold moves” to improve […]
By Sylvan Hardy Roughly 650 million people speak Spanish as their first or second language. Along with Mandarin (a billion speakers) and English (900 million), Spanish is one of the three most widely spoken languages in the world. It’s also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the native tongue […]
“The Vegetable Bar is moving … again.” Try and say that like Tom Hanks does as Forrest Gump. When he is telling the man on the park bench when he was on the U.S. ping-pong team “a few months later they invited me and the ping-pong team to visit the White House. So I went […]
Colombian police said Saturday that it was an arrested member of the Oliver Sinisterra Front, led by former FARC commander ‘El Guacho’, who led them to the bodies of three Ecuadorian journalists near Tumaco, Colombia. The identity of the man, believed to have been Guacho’s personal body guard, was not released. The man warned police […]
By Liam Higgins According to the record, the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador’s northern coast is a once-every-50-to-100-year event. The quake killed more than 600, destroyed or severely damaged 45,000 structures, and left 30,000 people homeless. “This was an earthquake of historic proportions,” said Alexandra Alvarado of Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute. “It’s terrible power reminds […]
By Amy Fleming Gwynn Mackellen was 26 when she decided to get sterilized. It took the recycling consultant, who is based in California five years to find an appropriate doctor under the public health plan she was on, but she was determined. In 2012, she succeeded. “I always knew I didn’t want kids, for environmental […]
Colombia Minister of Foreign Affairs María Ángela Holguín reported Friday night that three of the bodies found Thursday in Nariña Department are those of three journalists from the Quito newspaper El Comercio. “I called Ecuador´s chancellor to give him the news that we had found the bodies and determined that they were those of the […]
By Jerome Long In a recent opinion article remarkable for its radical socialist polemics, and not much else, Mr. James Cogan vilifies the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ecuador for their actions, real and imaginary, regarding Julian Assange without much in the way of substance. Mr. Cogan’s rhetoric, using […]
The Embassy of Ecuador in Nigeria is refuting what it calls fake news published by a number of websites and newspapers that Ecuador and Nigeria have signed a visa-free agreement for Nigerian citizens. In a statement issued by Charge d’Affaires of Ecuador in Nigeria, Jaime Campas claims that the news was false and that no […]
An Argentinian forensics expert told prosecutors Thursday that Air Force General Jorge Gabela was murdered for his opposition to the purchase of Indian-made helicopters, not by common thieves as the government reported. In his testimony, Roberto Meza suggested that the government’s conclusion that Gabela’s 2010 murder in Guayaquil was the result of a home robbery […]
