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Ecuador plans to build more mega-prisons to combat a surge in drug trafficking that has caused homicide rates to soar, Ecuadoran Minister of the Interior John Reimberg told reporters on Tuesday. The country is attempting to deal with a wave of drug violence by...
Ecuador has signed a contract with Chinese mining company CMOC for the "development and exploitation" of the Los Cangrejos gold and copper mine in El Oro Province. Containing one of the largest known gold deposits in the world, the large open pit mine will be the...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del lunes, 27/4) Película shuar "Nunkui" compite en festival de cine (Shuar film “Nunkui” competes at a film festival) - The Ecuadorian film, "Nunkui," directed by Verenice Benítez, was selected for the Festival Internacional de Cine de...
By Justin Scheck, Simón Posada and Federico Rios Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, that the gold is...
Following Tuesday morning raids of the offices of the publicly owned National Electricity Corporation (CNEL), investigators claim dozens of employees received millions of dollars in bribes to lower the electric bills for large power users. The government says the...
If you have lived in Cuenca for any length of time, you have almost certainly had at least one close encounter with its sidewalks, pavings, steps, or street furniture, and if you have not, you are either very new here or unusually nimble, and the odds on the second...
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. The necessity of understanding how to maintain good hydration is an important one for maintaining good health and needs to be reiterated due to the importance of adequate hydration for our well-being and health. A lot of misleading...
By Brett J. Goldstein Anthropic recently sent a shock wave through the cybersecurity world when it said its new artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos, had exhibited an extraordinary ability to find previously unknown vulnerabilities in software — a hacker’s...
"It doesn't work and it doesn’t solve anything," says Luis Córdoba, researcher at the Ecuadorian Observatory of Conflicts at Central University in Quito, referring to the government’s two-week curfew that goes into effect May 3. “We have two-year’s experience to this...
If you spend enough time observing relationships abroad, you may begin to notice something that is not always easy to define at first. It is not just how relationships form. It is what seems to sit quietly beneath them. At first, everything looks natural. People meet....
By Sonia Ramírez The Galápagos giant tortoise is one of those animals almost everyone recognizes, tied to Charles Darwin and the story of evolution. But in the late 1900s, parts of the tortoise’s home were being stripped bare by an unexpected invader, feral goats. How...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 23/4) Agenda - 27/4 a las 19:30 - Premier of "El velorio," a comedy about the death of a couple, told through their belated confessions - Teatro Sucre. 28/4 a las 18:00 - A discussion on AI and contemporary creation, followed by a...
The number of people killed in a bombing in a volatile region in southwest Colombia rose to 21, officials said Sunday. The attack happened Saturday when an explosive device was detonated on a bus traveling along the Pan-American Highway in the municipality of Cajibio....
There are certain places in the world that acquire an importance entirely out of proportion to their size, population, or apparent usefulness, and the Falkland Islands fall into that category. About thirty-five hundred civilian inhabitants, too many sheep to count,...
By Luke Barnes, On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day, had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In...
Cuenca has been rated number one for quality of life in the 2026 South America Quality of Life Index. The city also took top honors in 2025. The ranking considers such factors as climate, cost of living, health care, crime, infrastructure and urban environment. Cuenca...
Ecuador's Constitutional Court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a high-ranking lieutenant of the Los Choneros criminal gang. Dario Penafiel, known as "Topo," was arrested in September in Ecuador's Amazon, where he is believed to have been...
By Garry Vatcher Some projects begin with a plan. Others begin with a moment. The Amazon Fundraising Mural Project began with many moments - walking jungle trails, traveling rivers by canoe, sitting with community leaders, listening to mothers, watching children, and...
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa At 80, Leni Siegel’s rich life is visible throughout the Berkeley home she’s lived in for 20 years — in family photos, old theater programs from performances she attended and books she’s collected over the years. Now, feeling overwhelmed by...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del lunes, 20/4) Gala artística reúne lo mejor de la danza de tres provincias (Artistic gala brings the best of dance from three provinces) - The 7th national dance circuit will be in Cuenca este sábado, el 25/4 a las 19:00 in the Teatro Casa...
