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By John Bartlett The Atacama Desert in northern Chile stretches from the Pacific to the Andes across a vast expanse of dramatic red-orange rock canyons and peaks. It is the driest desert on Earth — and so closely resembles the surface of Mars that NASA tested...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine. “The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace; the European Union needs to start talking about peace so...
Police are warning neighborhood organizations against taking the law into their own hands. The warning coincided with weekend rallies, marches and road blockages protesting robberies and extortion of businesses. In the Carmen de Guzho parish on Cuenca’s southside,...
Eduardo Stein, a special representative of the UN refugee agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), referred to the ongoing tragedy afflicting Venezuela this way: “The IOM has never faced such a prolonged magnitude of refugee flight from a country that...
Acknowledging this week’s escalation of violence, President Guillermo Lasso told CNN Friday that the latest killings in Emeraldas and Guayaquil indicate that criminal gangs are changing tactics. “We have made impressive progress in interrupting drug shipments out of...
Do you believe you are in a better situation today than your parents were? This quick reference to generational progress, in which increased access to quality education, health and employment are decisive, is called into question after a decade-and-a-half of steady...
Problems on area highways are keeping buyers away from Cuenca holiday craft fairs, artisans say. “All the landslides and closures are hurting the traffic from the coast, which is where many of our customers come from,” says Quito jeweler Paul Ortiz. “Cuenca always has...
President Guillermo Lasso announced Wednesday night the arrest of a man he described as the organizer of the massacre of nine fishing port workers in Esmeraldas. The president did not provide the suspect's name, referring to him by his alias, El Coco, leader of Los...
By Andrew Nikiforuk We are going to have to dramatically downsize the dream of a future in which we replace 150-year-old fossil fuel infrastructure with “clean energy” by 2050. That’s the message in a number of recent important reports and books. They underscore a...
Miércoles, 12/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Feria de emprendedores en el Portal Artesanal (Entrepreneurs Fair at the Portal Artesanal) - The "Cuenca del Emprendimiento y la Artesanía" Feria will be this viernes y sábado in the Plaza del Portal Artesanal with 50...
Opposition by indigenous communities in Ecuador is holding up some $1 billion of investments for constructing three mining projects in the South American country, an executive of the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mining said on Tuesday. Ecuador’s largest indigenous...
By Connie Chang When we’re young, exercise can enable us to run a race after an all-nighter or snowboard on a diet of Doritos. But as we age, fitness has a much more far-reaching impact, boosting our energy levels, preventing injuries and keeping us mentally sharp....
National Police and the armed forces are looking for as many as 30 men who murdered nine fishermen and injured five more in Esmeraldas Tuesday morning. The hooded “hit team” arrived on foot, by boat and taxi at a dock warehouse and opened fire. Several of the victims...
A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with striking appearance. They are part of the butterworts (genus Pinguicula), a group of flowering plants with about 115 species that can catch and...
By Maggie Harrison Last weekend, comedian and YouTuber Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the ongoing AI gold rush. And honestly? It goes pretty hard. "Tech companies are suddenly promising to use AI to...
Lunes, 10/4/2023 Hola, Todos - I will be taking about 3 weeks off starting this Friday and resume translating on Wed., May 3. Actividades - Todo listo para el desfile estudiantil (Everything ready for the student parade) - There will be a parade celebrating the 466th...
By Stephen Vargha Everyone has heard the joke that the “world’s oldest profession” is prostitution. And it has been said the “world’s second-oldest profession” is spying because there are at least two dozen passages about it in the Bible. Those two professions were...
I’m occasionally asked, “How did you meet your Ecuadorian wife?” This question always triggers a reflection on why I had come to Ecuador, not to find love but to find a place of peace, wide smiles and laughter -- a place to cast off the energy of a busy past, an...
In a major blow to the government, the Imbabura Provincial Court has revoked the license of the Enami-Codelco mine in the Intag forest of Imbabura Province. The judges agreed with local residents who claimed that the Chilean-operated mine violated environmental...
By Francesco Manetto In recent days, two photographs have connected the nearly 4,000 miles (6,300 kilometers) that separate the Mexican state of Quintana Roo and the Chilean city of Santiago. The images are radically different, but they speak of the same thing: a...
