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By Jim Wyss When the green men from Mars landed in the central plaza of Cotocollao, north of Quito, a stunned nation listened as one of the country’s most famous radio personalities was vaporized by a death-ray, and firefighters and police rushed to the sleepy village...
After six hours of continuous rain Sunday, farmers in western Azuay Province are reporting crop damage as streams and rivers overflow their banks. Flooding also closed the Cuenca- Molleturo-El Empalme highway, the primary connection between Cuenca and Guayaquil, for...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves 24/9) Azogues expone arte y artesanía en galería (Azogues exhibits art and crafts at a gallery) - The Galería Manos Azuayas at the Casa de la Cultura Núcleo del Azuay opened the show, "Vitrina Artesanal y Artística - Azogues Pueblo...
Sherlock Holmes was able to solve an impressive number of crimes partly because he never had to do chores. We are told that Holmes conducted chemical experiments, played the violin, studied cigar ash, disguised himself as an elderly woman, and occasionally fired...
By Frances Hogg Lochow A friend in England approached me several months ago with a request to help an expat incarcerated in the women’s prison in Azogues. The woman had no access to reading materials and hoped to have some English language books. I collected several...
Energy Minister Juan Carlos Blum on Friday ordered 860 medium-size companies disconnected from the national power grid one day a week beginning September 28. On Monday, the country’s 185 largest energy users were disconnected for 24 hours. Blum said the new...
The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi) said Friday that the heavy rains that began earlier in the week are a “sign of things to come” for coastal provinces. In a bulletin, Inamhi reported that Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo, Los Ríos, Manabí, Guayas...
U.S. troops helped Ecuador dismantle a local branch of Mexico's notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), arresting more than 30 members, Ecuador's interior minister said Thursday. Quito, a Washington ally, is enthusiastically cooperating with President Trump's...
What did Ecuador sound like thousands of years ago? This Friday, September 25, idiomARTE hosts the launch of Vientos Ecuatoriales, a new book by archaeomusicologist Esteban Valdivia exploring the ancient sound world of Ecuador’s pre-Columbian cultures. Through images,...
Although Ecuador’s national electricity system continues to power households, the country has entered a period of high operational risk. To prevent the system from reaching critical levels by mid-October and forcing residential blackouts, the government has adopted a...
YouTube has thousands of portable power station reviews, enough to keep a prospective buyer watching until the next power cut. You can watch a bearded man in a check shirt run a circular saw in a forest, charge his battery from solar panels beside a camper van, or...
By Paula Span The scenario often unfolds like this: Medical researchers investigate a frequently used drug and report that it’s not as effective for older patients as previously thought, or that in older adults, its risks outweigh its benefits. More studies follow,...
By Sarah Birke A story is a story until it isn’t. That is the case with El Salvador. After President Nayib Bukele was first elected in 2019, there was a flurry of interest that lasted several years, focused on his crackdown on crime and his consolidation of power,...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del martes, 22/9) Feria inmobiliaria reunirá a más de 50 expositores (Real Estate fair to bring together more than 50 exhibitors) - The Cámara de Construcción de Cuenca will hold the Inmo Build Fair on the 26 & 17/9 at the Quinta Lucrecia....
By Kevin Koenig On August 23, Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador’s historic Yasuní referendum and protest the government’s failure to carry out the will of voters. The government’s refusal to comply is putting...
By Oliver Lawson The Colombian armed group Comandos de La Frontera (CDF) has expanded its relationships and logistical networks in Ecuador through an alliance with Ecuadorian gang Los Lobos. Together, the groups have become part of a transnational criminal system that...
Electric power to more than 150 large companies was disconnected on Monday as part of the government’s plan to save energy ahead of the approaching El Niño. The Energy Ministry estimates the move will save as much as 1,000 megawatts of energy although other sources,...
One of the odder features of modern air travel is that airports have become brilliant at selling almost everything except the one thing a traveler actually needs at six in the morning. My last trip took me through four international airports and one ecological airport...
By Michael Torney The ancient cultures in pre-hispanic Peru depicted the three worlds, the world above, the world in which we live and the world below. Travelling in the Andes it’s tempting to see these represented in the sky above and all around us, and in the...
By Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking...
