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Minister of Defense Luis Hernández has ordered what he calls a “deep and wide” investigation of how a car and van filled with cash gained access to the national defense headquarters parking lot Thursday and why “Big Money” Don Naza was admitted to the main building of...
By Tara Law It’s clear that 2020 was a terrible year for health in the U.S., but just how terrible is now coming into focus. New mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years in 2020 compared to 2019, and...
An investigation is underway following the arrest of five men and women in the parking lot of the Defense Ministry complex in Quito Thursday afternoon. Police say the five are associated with the so-called "Big Money" loan and money laundering operation in Quevedo in...
The Ecuador Social Security Institute (IESS) and the Society for the Fight Against Cancer in Ecuador (SOLCA) announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement to allow IESS patients to continue to receive cancer treatments. Management of the SOLCA foundation...
Jueves, 7/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Hoy se inaugura festival de música sacra "Quien canta ora dos veces" (Sacred music festival "He who sings prays twice" opened today) - <And does he who laughs prays 3 times? I guess it depends on what he's laughing...
By Sebastian Stranieri There are only two types of companies in today’s digital age. Those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked. Three, if we add those who have been hacked but just don’t know it. Emerging markets in Latin America and beyond are the...
The National Assembly voted Tuesday to send President Guillermo Lasso's revisions to the new abortion law to the Constitutional Court to determine their legality. The law was passed in March following a 2021 ruling by the court that Ecuador’s current law, which...
Tourists and vendors in Playas are complaining about the mounds of driftwood littering local beaches. The logs, limbs and other trash that wash ashore during rainy season and then accumulate on beaches have been collected in piles as high as three meters but have not...
Miércoles, 6/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - La Chismosa enciende su primera vela (La Chismosa lights its first candle) - FM station, Radio La Chismosa (FM 104.1), will celebrate its 1st anniversary with a free concert. The "Tour Party Reggaeton 2022" will be el...
By Marcos Aleman El Salvador’s congress, pushing further in the government's dramatic crackdown on gangs, has authorized prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media and journalists that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press freedom...
By David Leonhardt To many people’s surprise — including mine — new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. have not begun to rise. Over the past two weeks, they have held roughly steady, falling about 1 percent, even as the more contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron has become...
Martes, 5/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Abril, un mes de cultura (April, a month of culture) - Some of the activities planned for the 465th anniversary of the founding of Cuenca include movies in the barrios, music in the parks, and a return to parades of...
By Heather Conley Let’s say you want to open a small business in Cuenca. Why not? It’s a great city, arguably the best in Ecuador, and you want to contribute. ou have dreams, you have skills – you want to give back. But if your business idea depends on staff, STOP!...
By Jeremiah Reardon At a March rehearsal for Azuay Community Theater’s first fully-staged play since the Covid-19 pandemic began, How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn, Director Bob Fry and ACT President Paula Bailey outlined the play for me. The action takes...
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, and the port city of Callao following nationwide protests over rising fuel and fertilizer prices. On Sunday, the government announced it would temporarily scrap the fuel tax in an attempt to...
There will be no interruption of services for cancer patients, Ecuador's Social Security Institute (IESS) said Monday. IESS health division officials said that arrangements are being made to pay a debt to the Solca cancer foundation, which provides treatment services...
Lunes, 4/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Azogues inicia sus festividades con pregón cultural (Azogues starts its festivities with a cultural proclamation) - The start of the festivities of the 197th anniversary of cantonization of Azogues was el pasado sábado with...
Interior Minister Patricio Castillo said Monday afternoon that order has been restored at the Turi Penitentiary south of Cuenca and that those responsible for Sunday’s riot have been identified and transferred to a prison in Guayaquil. He said the final death toll is...
By Heather Galloway Life expectancy is longer in Spain than it is in the United Kingdom – and much longer than in the United States. This is something that has been pointed out by a number of studies, the latest being from the University of Washington’s Institute for...
At least 20 prisoners at the Turi Penitentiary have died and an undetermined number have been injured during a riot that began shortly after midnight Sunday. In an afternoon news conference, Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo said the situation is “not yet under...
