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By Amiah Taylor As the nation calls for President Joe Biden to ramp up taxes on the wealthy, crypto millionaires are creating their own tax-free havens in Central America. The draw of creating small crypto-backed utopias in Latin America is the freedom from both taxes...
Local and national officials surveyed flood damage Friday in Azuay and Cañar Provinces but said major repairs cannot begin until the rain stops. “We have reopened one lane of the Pan American highway in three locations, near Azogues and Santa Isabel, but this is...
By Sophia Epstein “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again,” President Joe Biden said earlier this year. He’s not the only political leader calling for workers to head back to the office. “Mother Nature does not like working from...
Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc on areas near Cuenca Wednesday and Thursday, washing out highways and bridges, flooding farmland and destroying homes. National Risk Management officials were in Azogues and other parts of Cañar Province Thursday, assessing damage...
Jueves, 21/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Margarita Laso "Vuelve al Sur" (Margarita Laso "Back to the South") - As part of the foundation of Cuenca festivities, the "Vuelve al Sur" concert with singer Margarita Laso, marimba player Pablo Valarezo, and the Orquesta...
By Stephen Vargha Cuenca artist Boris Ordoñez showed a tour group his huge chess pieces at the entrance to his gallery, OFF Arte Contemporáneo. “It is like a chess game where the kingdoms are represented by the young and old,” said Ordoñez. “Young artists are...
By Karla Pesantes Trying to prevent drug traffickers from hiding cocaine in cargo containers at Ecuador's main port of Guayaquil is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for police and exporters alike. The ingenuity of criminal gangs means tons of cocaine leave...
National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori survived the latest attempt to remove her from office Monday as her opponents failed by three votes of gaining control of the Assembly. The vote, which required 92 of the Assembly’s 137 members, would have established a...
Miércoles, 20/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nueva comedia trae la "Marujita" ("Marujita" brings a new comedy) - Juana Guarderas, better known as "Marujita," will bring her new show, "Lecciones para rudos en tiempos pandemicos" (Lessons for rude guys in pandemic...
By Michael Eisenstein Katalin Karikó never intended to make vaccines. For years before the pandemic, the Hungarian-American biochemist had been working to realize the therapeutic potential of mRNA — first trying to create a synthetic version of the messenger molecule...
Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Tuesday that the outdoor masking requirement will be eliminated in two weeks if there is no increase in the number of Covid-19 cases reported. “The number of new cases has remained constant or declined in recent weeks, with positive...
Martes, 19/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - See article in Region for activities in Chordeleg, Oña y Sígsig. Titular - Más estafas financieras (More financial scams) - After the Big Money scam was exposed <and Don Naza avoided jail time by getting himself...
By Julia Buckley It's time! Travel restrictions are easing, Covid infection rates are settling, you're fully vaccinated, and you're finally thinking about going on vacation. This is the year to make up for the holidays you didn't enjoy over the past two years. You've...
By Siobhan Reid Three weeks ago, a new species of glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium mashpi) was named by the team at Mashpi Lodge, a remote eco-hotel on the western flanks of the Andean Mountains, three hours northwest of Quito. When the tiny, transparent-bellied...
President Guillermo Lasso continues to insist he made no agreement with former president Rafael Correa or his followers to release Jorge Glas prison. Glas served as vice president during the Correa administration. “There does not exist and there has never existed an...
Lunes, 18/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - "Lo Invisible", un filme que retrata la depresión ("The Invisible", a film that portrays depression) - This film by Ecuadorian Javier Andrade will premier in Quito on el 21/4. It received good reviews in the Festival de...
By Robert Bradley Casa Azul Galeria Cafe, on San Sebastian plaza, was my first favorite cafe in Cuenca. Several mornings a week I would wander down, plop into one of their comfortable chairs, and read for a couple of hours while sipping coffee, or dawdling over...
By Will Stone Doctors will soon have new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how and when to prescribe opioids for pain (ultram). Those guidelines – currently under review as a draft – will serve as an update to the agency's previous...
More than 75 percent of Ecuador’s murders occurred in five of the country’s 24 provinces during the first three months of 2022. Guayas, Manabí, Esmeraldas, Los Rios and El Oro provinces recorded 613 murders while 152 were reported in the rest of the country. Murders...
The news of late has been as gloomy as the weather. Eduardo Stein, the special representative of the UN refugee agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), recently referred to Venezuala in this way, “The IOM has never faced such movement of refugees out...
