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Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was murdered late Wednesday afternoon as he left a political rally in Quito. According to police, Villavicencio died from three gunshots to the head as he entered a car following the rally at Colegio Anderson in a northern...
Miércoles, 9/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - "De 20 pantallas para el monitoreo solo sirven 3" (Only 3 out of the 20 monitoring screens work) - Two serious assaults linked with banks occured in less than a week in Cuenca. In the most recent, $50,000 was stolen in an...
By J. Kenji López-Alt With most of us quarantined in our homes, chances are you’ve been reacquainting yourself with the forgotten spices and fusty beans from the depths of your pantry. But how fusty is too fusty? When is the right time to throw something out? And what...
Less than two weeks before Ecuador’s cross death election, pollsters and analysts say the outcome of the presidential race is very much in doubt. “Everyone agrees that Luisa González [Citizens Revolution] will lead the field August 20,” says Pedro Donoso, who has...
By Tatiana Arias and Helen Regan Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as the world’s largest rainforest acts as a...
By Florantonia Singer A few weeks ago, social media users celebrated the fact that the traditional cachapa — a corn cake cooked on a budare [griddle] and stuffed with fresh cheese — had triumphed in MasterChef Australia. This comfort food was prepared by a Venezuelan...
Citizens Revolution presidential candidate Luisa González responded Monday to charges that a Correista government would abandon the U.S. dollar as Ecuador’s official currency. "Our policy is to support dollar, as do the majority of Ecuadorians,” she said. “There are...
Lunes, 7/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Concierto por Día de la Cultura (Concert for Culture Day) - The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will perform a concert el miércoles, 9/8 a las 20:00 in the Teatro Casa de la Cultura to commemorate the Día de la Cultura. The...
By Andrea Michelson Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Medicine and former president of the American Heart Association, is not interested in living longer just for the sake of it. "I'm less interested in the lifespan and more interested in the...
The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$500 million development policy loan for Ecuador to support government efforts to achieve inclusive, resilient and low-carbon development. This is the third of three loans disbursed since the beginning of 2022. The first...
Four months after President Guillermo Lasso signed an executive order allowing citizens to carry firearms for self-defense, not a single permit has been issued. In total, less than 100 applications “to carry” have been submitted nationwide, according to the...
Of Ecuador’s eight presidential candidates, only three responded last week to a Quito’s newspaper question of where they stood on the Yasuní oil referendum. Yaku Pérez and Fernando Villavicencio said they would vote “yes” to end oil production while Otto Sonenholzner...
For foreign residents, deciding whether or not to buy health insurance in Ecuador is one of biggest challenges they will face. Should they maintain their insurance coverage in their home country? Should they cancel that policy and purchase private insurance in...
Miércoles, 2/8/2023 Periodico - viernes, 4/8/2023 Hola, Todos - It's going to be a short post - I hit something wrong and one and a half hours of work disappeared. So I'll recreate those articles and call it quits. Actividades - Conciertos gratuitos de la Orquesta...
Ecuadorian authorities confirmed Friday that nine officials from the country's prisons bureau in the city of Guayaquil had been arrested after weapons, explosives, and drugs were found in their offices “following the inspection of wards in the Penitenciaría del...
By Markham Heid You turn down the lights, mute your phone and spend a few minutes massaging your skin with lavender oil. Or maybe you meditate in the morning with the scents of tea tree or thyme wafting to you from an oil diffuser. These practices are pleasant. And...
Three media outlets are claiming that Colombian President Gustavo Petro's presidential campaign did not report payments to its top campaign managers. Among the managers was the Ecuadorian Vinicio Alvarado, who Petro credited with being the “architect” of his 2022...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended President Guillermo Lasso’s decree allowing environmental consultations for mining and oil projects, which sought to speed up permitting before the end of his presidential term in November. In its decision, the...
By Kwan Wei Kevin Ta People around the world may fear the gray hairs, crow's feet, and stagnation that come with a midlife crisis. But millennials in China fear hitting an age milestone thought to be a death sentence for one's career: 35. These anxieties have been...
President Guillermo Lasso was booed and heckled during a short visit to a Cuenca health clinic Wednesday afternoon. Although the visit was not publicly announced, dozens of local residents gathered as the president was leaving the public health facility in San Joaquín...
