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By Joshua Hawkins Researchers with the University of Oxford and Google Deepmind have shared a chilling warning in a new paper. Published in AI Magazine last month, the paper claims that the threat of AI is greater than previously believed. It’s so great, in fact,...
More than 200 delegates from 33 countries are in Cuenca for the 14th Ministerial Forum on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the sponsor, the United Nations Development Program, attendees include at least four presidents, in addition to...
In response to demands by Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities President Leonidas Iza that the government pay reparations to those killed and injured during the June strike, Government Minister Franscsco Jiménez says that all injured parties, not just strikers,...
On the anniversary of the most deadly prison riot in Ecuador history, representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations say little progress has been made to improve security conditions within the country's prison system. On...
Miércoles, 28/9/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Las heroínas del Ecuador en cuentos ilustrados (The heroines of Ecuador in illustrated stories) - Priscila Delgado has written a book, "Donde están nuestras heroínas" (Where are our heroines) about Ecuadorian women...
By Richard Ingle Two weeks ago, a talk radio show host read a Cuenca Citizen Guard report about an incident involving a foreign resident in Parque Calderon. The guard noticed an elderly man who had been holding on to the wrought iron fence surrounding the Abdon...
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities President Leonidas Iza claimed Tuesday that the government is going back on earlier fuel subsidy agreements in negotiations with indigenous organizations. “We are within 20 days of completing the talks and the government is...
By David Leonhardt A single country has accounted for about 80 percent of the fishing in the international waters just off Argentina, Ecuador and Peru this year. And it is not a South American country. It is China. In recent years, hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels...
By Carrie Dennett Back in August, I wrote about how I wouldn’t promote the Mediterranean diet like I used to. One reason is that the heavy emphasis on this way of eating – although delicious and nutritious – rejects other traditional ways of eating. also It’s...
Despite the dismissal of the Interior Minister, two police commanders and at least 10 officials at the Quito police academy where attorney María Belén Bernal was murdered Sept 12, it remains unclear how the government plans to reorganize the National Police. Following...
Lunes, 26/9/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From el Mercurio del sábado, 24/9: Experiencia y sabiduría a la pasarela (Experience and wisdom on the catwalk) - The Centro de Atención de Adulto Mayor (CAAM), part of the IESS in Azuay, is presenting a fashion parade,...
By Shafik Meghji In a stretch of the Bolivian Amazon known as the Llanos de Moxos, the sultry port of Loma Suárez takes its name from a notorious rubber baron who built a mansion and ranch beside a loma (hill) overlooking the Ibare River. During the late 19th and...
Supporters of Luca Pallanca are protesting the Azuay Electoral Board’s decision to disqualify him as a Cuenca mayoral candidate based on what they claim is a “minor technicality.” Following last week’s filing deadline for candidates for mayor, prefect and other local...
Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del periodico de jueves, 22/9/2022: Muestra recoge la vida y obra de los "Clásicos de la pintura" (Exhibition shows the life and work of the "Classics of painting") - There will be a show of paintings by Julio Montesinos with large scale...
By Michael Lee Large Chinese drug networks are helping fuel the U.S. fentanyl crisis, a situation Beijing has little incentive to combat amid deteriorating relations with Washington. "Since approximately 2013, China has been the principal source of the fentanyl...
City officials are claiming Cuenca’s tram system is a rousing success two years after service began. They also admit that reaching one of its major goals, integration of service with municipal buses, remains elusive. In a series of radio and television interviews this...
Many of the healthy guidelines you live by might actually be myths. Last week, the rule that you need to get in 10,000 steps per day made news when it was reported that the number was actually a Japanese marketing ploy with little scientific basis. It’s hardly the...
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday that the murder of Quito lawyer María Belén Bernal, 34, caused him "deep pain and indignation" and vowed that her killing would not go unpunished. Lasso offered the comments shortly after authorities announced they had...
About 200 members of the National Union of Educators and the Unitary Workers Front marched to Parque Calderon Wednesday afternoon demanding that the government pay its debt to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute. Similar protests were held in Quito, Guayaquil,...
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, recently elected Colombian president Gustavo Petro delivered a fiery speech that recalled some of his campaign themes, slamming the war on drugs as a failure and accusing the global north of...
