As the new government of President Guillermo Lasso begins negotiations today with trucking, bus and taxi unions to alleviate the impact of rising diesel and gasoline prices, it is quietly looking for ways to end the largest fuel subsidy, that for LP gas. A 2014...
Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz resisted all challengers to win the Tour de Suisse on Sunday. The Ineos Grenadiers team rider was left with just one crew mate three kilometres from the finish but managed to fight off his challengers to take the win, 17 seconds...
I awoke to the first day of my seventieth year last Sunday. The morning was still quietly snoozing on pillows of clouds drifting downwind when I started my routine of photographing the neighborhood and the goings-on along the river. I stood on one of my favorite...
By Victoria Guida The Federal Reserve is taking what may be the first significant step toward launching its own virtual currency, a move that could shake up banks, give millions of low-income Americans access to the financial system and fortify the dollar's status as...
Friday’s indigenous protest against rising fuel prices and International Monetary Fund (IMF) restrictions was peaceful, attracting about 1,000 participants in Latacunga. Fears that the protest would spread to other communities and block highways proved unfounded....
Chile has announced a lockdown in its capital, Santiago, home to more than a third of the country's population, amid a rise in coronavirus cases, despite more than half of the country’s population being fully vaccinated. Under the new lockdown order, millions of...
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, which contains much of the country's oil reserves and a place where oil companies are expected to soon expand drilling, likely has a higher density of jaguars than any other place on earth. Yasuni is arguably world's most biodiverse...
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to officially classify Bitcoin as legal currency. Congress approved President Nayib Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, with 62 out of 84 possible votes on Tuesday night. The president said the...
For Ecuador real estate agents and developers, the Covid-19 pandemic has only made a bad situation worse. Already in a slump in 2018 and 2019, those selling property today have seen the time on the market increase by as much as 50 percent since late 2019. “The market...
Jueves, 10/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Dulces de Corpus (Corpus sweets) - 58 producers will be selling Corpus Christi sweets until el sábado from 10-20:00 at the Portal Artesanal (Huayna Cápac y Bolívazr) and Cemuart (General Torres y...
By Robert Bradley The production and export of coffee in Ecuador continues its drastic decline, particularly in coastal regions. However, production per hectare is growing. The export of soluble, or "instant” coffee, represents 95 percent of total exports. Exports of...
By Max Rorschach The so-called Covid-19 virus and the deadly vaccines it has inspired is truly the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the human race. Civil liberties have been trampled, international commerce has been decimated, families have been separated and...
Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza says Friday’s mobilization against rising fuel prices will be peaceful but says he may not be able to control the anger of some of his followers. The protest is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in Latacunga and may spread to other areas of...
Miércoles, 9/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Gobierno y choferes acuerdan el diálogo (Government and drivers agree to a dialogue) - Transportation unions reached an agreement with Pres. Lasso to not repeat the protests that paralyzed...
Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori reiterated her allegation of irregularities in Sunday’s election as she narrowly lags her opponent with the vote count nearing its end. With 99% of votes tallied, Fujimori has 49.8% while her rival Pedro Castillo has...
By Associated Press Health Staff Jennifer Bergin was already obese and pre-diabetic before the pandemic, and learning she also had high blood pressure made her worry about how sick she might get with Covid-19. She began walking three hours a day, eventually losing 60...
A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies in what would be a new world record. Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight babies in the womb. "It's seven boys and three girls. I am happy....
Beginning next week, the Ministry of Health will begin a nationwide testing program to determine how much of the population has been infected with the Covid-19 virus. Anti-body tests will be performed in all provinces and municipalities and could help determine how...
Martes, 8/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. - Otras cosas - Titular - Vuelve la vida a las aulas (Life comes back to the classrooms) - With happiness among the students and scepticism among the parents, children returned to classes after 15 months of virtual...
By Ethan Siegal At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally described as a set of pneumonia-like symptoms with a hitherto unseen cause, a set of alarming facts soon came to light. A novel virus — now known to be SARS-CoV-2 —...
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