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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...
Miércoles, 2/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - "Ruta del trigo, mishqui y pan" une a Nabón y Oña ("Wheat, mishqui and bread route" links Nabón and Oña) - This route is the result of a family's research into the production chain for wheat in the cantons of Nabón and...
According to Colombian news media, a candidate for Ecuador’s National Assembly may be a key player in the scandal involving President Gustavo Petro’s son, Nicolás Petro. According to the magazine Semana, Raisa Vulgarín, a Citizens Revolution candidate to be a National...
Twenty-four of 25 restaurants recently closed for unsanitary conditions in Ecuador were chifas, the government health control agency Arcsa said Tuesday. Four of the 24 serving a Chinese menu were in the Av. Remigio Crespo sector of Cuenca, the agency reported....
By Garry Vatcher After driving all night, 20 hours in total, we made it to Esmeraldas on Saturday around noon. We took the long way, as we had to make a quick stop in Tulcan. I prefer entering Esmeraldas from Ibarra. The scenery along the road from Ibarra to San...
