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By Aoife Walsh Four children have been found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending weeks fending for themselves in Colombia's Amazon jungle. Colombia's president said the rescue of the siblings, aged 13, nine, four and one, was "a joy for the whole...
By Joshua Collins Title 42, the Trump-era migration policy enacted during the COVID epidemic that resulted in more than 2 million expulsions, will finally be allowed to expire by the Center For Disease Control (CDC) on May 11. Despite promising to end the program on...
Lunes, 12/6/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del sábado, 10/6 (1 article): Estancia Buganey, un entorno privilegiado (Estancia Buganey, a privileged setting) - The Estancia Buganey, an hour from Cuenca on the vía a Soldados, offers a country getaway...
By Stephen Vargha It started out as personalized hostess gifts. “I would come to someone’s house and they would ask me where I got them,” said Bernie Hemingway. “I told them that I made it.” Prior to moving to Cuenca in April 2014, Hemingway used to can at his home in...
By Inés Santaeulalia Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has the soul of a newspaper editor. In this interview, he responds to many of the questions by saying that they are false, poorly formulated, helping to spread lies and that the journalist is misinformed....
Former National Assemblywoman Luisa González accepted the Citizens Revolution presidential nomination Saturday after former vice president Jorge Glas declined it. The Correismo presidential candidate in the 2021 election, Andrés Arauz, will be the party’s...
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) will hold marches throughout the country on Tuesday to protest government mining policies it says are unconstitutional. The marches are being organized in conjunction with the filing of a lawsuit at the...
Diego arrived at the bus station nearly an hour before the scheduled 5 a.m. departure. He was too nervous to sleep. His entire family joined him, but only as far as the floodlit parking lot, and only long enough to offer words of encouragement to sustain him. He alone...
By Sylvan Hardy Cuenca's expatriate community is changing before our eyes, growing in size and becoming more multicultural. That’s the assessment of University of Edinburgh researcher Calvin Evans, currently in town conducting interviews. “The changes are happening...
Viernes, 9/6/2023 Hola, Todos - Cultura - De El Mercurio del jueves - 8/6 (3 articles): Calles peatonales por la fiesta del Corpus Cristi (Pedestrian streets for the Corpus Christi festival) - During the Corpus festivities until el 15/6, streets bounding Parque...
The colorful life of Ecuador’s former President León Febres-Cordero is being adapted for a feature biopic by his grandson, producer James León of 8th Gear Entertainment. Ted Field (Jumanji, Chronicles of Riddick franchises) will produce the film alongside Leon, with...
With the official announcement Thursday that the El Niño weather phenomenon has begun, Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat issued a yellow alert for 143 cantons and 439 parishes it considers vulnerable to flooding. In its announcement, the United States Oceanic and...
By Ryan Grim Leftist leaders from around the world warned in a letter Wednesday that “a soft coup” is underway in Colombia, accusing the country’s opposition of illegally working to remove President Gustavo Petro and many of his key allies from power. The letter is...
By Carol E. Leutner When I was working on my Masters in Business Administration at the University of New Mexico some decades ago, I was required to take a course in economics. This was fine with me. Politicians were beginning to blame all of the country’s ills on the...
Cuenca Mayor Cristian Zamora and Azuay Province Prefect Juan Cristóbal Lloret are among local government officials and business leaders who are demanding to know why area highways remain in poor repair. The group is demanding a meeting within 15 days with...
Miércoles, 7/6/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - Clases, en la Sierra, iniciarán en agosto (Classes in the Sierra will start in August) - On 22/6, schools will finish their 200 days of academic activities and end the scholastic year in the Sierra and Amazonia. There will...
By Matthew Cappucci A developing El Niño is already dramatically influencing Earth’s weather, scrambling precipitation patterns and boosting temperatures higher and higher. Forecasters say it’s only a matter of time before El Niño’s arrival is official, and there is...
The magnitude of the weekend floods in Esmeraldas continues to grow as more rain fell on the area Tuesday. “This is a disaster of almost unimaginable dimensions, affecting thousands and thousands of families,” President Guillermo Lasso said Monday following a...
By Garry Vatcher Foundation Hogar de Esperanza has been visiting Alausí to bring support since the landslide on March 26 that devastated this close-knit community. On the last few trips, we wanted to see how the disaster affected those in the community and hear some...
By Kenny Stancil A report published Monday reveals how multilateral development banks' financing of factory farms has unleashed significant social and ecological harm in Ecuador, and civil society groups say the banks' failure to consult or compensate affected...
