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The vice president of the National Electoral Council Enrique Pita said Monday that President Daniel Noboa must resign to run for reelection. "The president or any other elected official must temporarily resign if they register to run again for office," Pita said in an...
Monday, 5/8/2024 Hello, Everyone - Activities- Symphonies make duet - An orchestral trip through Guayas and Cuenca will happen on Friday, 6/9 in the concert, "Symphony of two cities <directed by Maestro Charles Dickens>) The Youth Symphonic Orchestra of...
By Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the highly anticipated July election that both the...
Water rationing will begin within a matter of days, possibly this week, Cuenca Mayor Cristián Zamora said Monday. "The outage periods will be from six to eight hours a day," he said. "These could be extended, depending on conditions at our reservoirs.” At a morning...
While forest fires continue to burn in Azuay, Loja and Cotopaxi Provinces, firefighters are slowly gaining control thanks to air support, the country’s Risk Management Office reports. “We are making progress in containing the Quilanga and San Fernando fires but we...
By Caity Weaver I have good news and I have bad news. Actually, I have crazy news and I have bad news. Actually, all the news I have is bad, but some of it is also crazy. Before you become totally freaked out, all the news I’m describing here is about pennies; it’s...
By Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app after the company refused to comply with a judge’s order. X missed a...
President Daniel Noboa Friday extended for another 30 days the state of emergency in six provinces and one canton given the high level of criminal violence. Noboa's decree extended the measure he ordered July 2 in Los Rios, Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabi, and El Oro, as...
Only one political alliance was announced Friday, the last day parties could form partnerships ahead of the February 2025 election. The alliance between Citizens' Revolution (RC) and Total Renewal (RETO) reduced the number of presidential candidates from 17 to 16. RC...
Viernes, 30/8/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del jueves, 29/8 (1 article): Nulti tiene listo un festival dominical (Nulti is ready for a Sunday festival) - The El Tablón community in Nulti Parish is organizing the fifth cuy festival el domingo, 1/9...
By Christopher Newton With access to artificial intelligence increasing rapidly, some of Latin America’s organized crime groups have begun wielding it for criminal gain. Though artificial intelligence (AI) has long been of interest in the worlds of science and science...
By Roger Ebberly “This could change everything about what we think about the first human inhabitants of South and North America,” says Jorge Levy, an anthropologist at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales. “It means that we will need to develop new theories and will...
Large wildfires burned out of control Thursday night in San Fernando, Nabón, Susudel and Oña. The fires in Azuay Province, which have consumed hundreds of hectares, were located in mountainous terrain difficult to reach by firefighters, according to the Cuenca Risk...
By Stephen Vargha With a heated political season upon us, many U.S. citizens in Cuenca are concerned about their voter registration. Others want to register to have their voices heard on November 5. Then, there are those who are concerned about being eligible to vote...
By Mat DiSalvo El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been an outspoken in his advocacy for Bitcoin. While he has long battled with critics, he has now admitted that his Bitcoin experiment has not gone exactly as planned. In an interview with Time magazine published...
Ecuador's Energy Ministry on Wednesday began the process of shutting down oil wells in block ITT-43, located in Yasuní National Park in the country's Amazon region. The action follows passage a year ago by voters of a referendum ending oil production in area that has...
Miércoles, 28/8/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del martes, 27/8 (3 articles): Un encuentro escénico con García Lorca para 'revivirlo' (A stage encounter with García Lorca to 'revive' him) - The theatrical work, "Memora," an homage to the poet and...
By Julian Nowogrodzki A newly devised ‘brain clock’ can determine whether a person’s brain is ageing faster than their chronological age would suggest. Brains age faster in women, countries with more inequality and Latin American countries, the clock indicates. “The...
By Laura Geggel A basketball-player-size, two-faced wooden idol that allegedly escaped destruction by the Spanish conquistadors is real — but it may not be quite what people suspected. The statue is even older than thought, and was probably worshipped by the people...
The director of Ecuador’s Central Bank Guillermo Avellán says that cryptocurrency is not illegal in the country, but thinks trading must be regulated. His comments about the confusion in the status of cryptocurrencies come in the wake of a recent official Central Bank...
