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By Enrique Ortiz and Paola Lopez Julia Avellan had been tempted to quit the cocoa business before prices unexpectedly exploded on the international market this year, bringing historic profits to Ecuador's farmers. But the "golden" cocoa bean has not escaped the...
By Andrea Shalal The US dollar remains the world’s primary reserve currency, and neither the euro nor the so-called Brics countries have been able to reduce global reliance on the US dollar, a new study by the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center shows. The group’s...
By Liam Higgins Although he was picked as the indigenous Pachakutik party’s presidential candidate, Leonidas Iza’s choice was by no means unanimous. Party leadership claims his selection followed a process in which all indigenous organizations had a voice while those...
By Carlos Valdez And Isabel Debre Protesters streamed into La Paz, Bolivia’s capital, throats hoarse from chanting and feet blistered from a week of walking along the national highway. The throngs of street vendors in the South American country’s vast informal work...
By Sarah Lynch WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey. Assange, 52, has agreed...
Former President Abdullah Bucaram said Saturday that he resented suggestions that President Daniel Noboa might replace him as the crazy president. “I will not allow him to take my place,” Bucaram said. “I am the original ‘El Loco’ and won’t let anyone steal my title.”...
By Juliet Kinsman “Everything is bigger in South America,” smiles Fernando Polanco, the owner of Hacienda Zuleta, as he wields an eye-wateringly large star fruit. We're on his family's 17th-century, 4,500-acre working dairy farm and ranch. Zuleta, which is two hours...
By Gabby Landsverk If you want to live a long, healthy life, the best time to pay attention to your heart health is right now, according to a doctor. The biggest mistake people make about heart health is waiting until it's too late to take action, Dr. Gregory Katz, a...
Viernes, 21/6/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del jueves, 20/6 (1 article): 180 artistas animarán la Fiesta de la Música (180 artists will animate the Fiesta de la Música) - The Music Festival started el jueves in the Plaza de El Otorongo and will...
By Ellen Ioanes Honduran President Xiomara Castro recently announced plans to build a “mega prison” capable of housing 20,000 people to manage the country’s crime problem. It’s part of an increasingly popular proposition in Latin American countries — fighting drug...
The name ‘Ecuador’ comes from the Spanish word for ‘equator’: the place where the sun is at its highest. This intense sunlight not only supports food crops but other sacred and endemic species. Unearth the country's relationship with the sun and delight in how it...
In social media messages late Friday, the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) announced that "Ecuador is back to full power." The announcement followed a day of blackouts in some areas of the country due to the shutdown of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric...
Following the shutdown of its Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline (OCP), Petroecuador has declared force majeure to protect it against fines and penalties for delayed oil shipments. The declaration follows erosion on the Coca River that exposed 140 meters of the previously...
By Abbie VanSickle and Jim Tankersley The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to weigh in on a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth. The justices, by a...
By Rich Westcott Do you like to sing? What do you think of a choir that not only sings in Cuenca but in many towns around Cuenca? One that exposes you to other people and places in Ecuador? I’m speaking of the Archbishop’s Choir here at the cathedral. My wife and I...
The United Works Front (FUT) will go ahead with its July 4 protests against the elimination of gasoline subsidies despite the agreement announced Tuesday between the transport unions and the government. “We will take to the streets to voice our rejection of the...
Wednesday, 19/6/2024 Hello, Everyone - I will be taking a vacation next week from Monday, 24/6 and be back either Monday, 1/7 or Wednesday 3/7 depending on how long it takes me to recover from the vacation. Activities- From El Mercurio on Tuesday, 18/6 (4 articles):...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged his government to speed up actions in the Amazon to combat organized crime that has contributed to destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest. Lula complained that it had taken a year for a...
Ecuador experienced a massive electric blackout Wednesday afternoon that left most of the country's 17 million people without power. Electric power went out shortly after 3 and was restored for most customers by 6:30. In a news conference, Energy Minister Roberto...
After reaching an agreement with taxi and passenger van companies, the government late Monday announced details of its plan to eliminate subsidies for Extra and Ecopaís brands of gasoline. Prices will increase in two phases, the first coming at the end of June....
