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By Brooke Cato Recent research suggests that humans consume about five grams of small plastic particles every week, which is about the weight of a credit card. The plastic particles make their way into the human food chain from packaging waste, entering the body...
A day after announcing he could no longer work the with National Assembly, President Guillermo Lasso announced the appointment of a new Minister of Government who says one of his missions is to “build bridges” between the president and the Assembly. Francisco Jiménez,...
Miércoles, 30/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Fiesta monumental (Monumental celebration) - Ecuador tied with Argentina <even though Argentina has Lionel Messi> in Tuesday night's game in Guayaquil. Ecuador is going to the Mundiales in Qatar!...
By Bryan Lufkin We’ve been taught to keep work and play apart. Yet more of us are still taking workcations, three years into the pandemic – and reaping the benefits. Even as the pandemic is ending, it looks like the trend could be here to stay. “After working from...
Former Ecuador comptroller Carlos Polit was arrested Monday in Miami on charges of money-laundering. The former official, who lives in a luxury high-rise on the Miami River, was convicted in absentia in Ecuador in 2018 for extorting millions of dollars from Brazilian...
Following last week’s defeat of his investment law by the National Assembly, President Guillermo Lasso said Tuesday that he will govern the country by decree and public referendum, bypassing the Assembly. “Given its refusal to participate in the revitalization of the...
Martes, 29/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Exposición - An exhibit of 35 paintings by children and youth with Downs Syndrome opened ayer in the Quinta Bolívar. "Trazos de igualdad" will run until el 31/3 with hours from 8:30-16:30. Titular - Sayausí en ermergencia...
By Katie Surma Wild animals possess distinct legal rights, including to exist, to develop their innate instincts and to be free from disproportionate cruelty, fear and distress, Ecuador’s top court ruled in a landmark decision interpreting the country’s “rights of...
In a visit to Cuenca on Monday, Vice President Alfredo Borrero said the government would provide funds to families who lost their homes as a result of Sunday’s landslide in Sayausí. “We will help those who lost everything in this disaster and will work hard to reopen...
Health Minster Ximena Garzón defended the government’s decision to reopen most indoor businesses and events at 100 percent capacity on Monday, insisting that Ecuador could be the first country in the Andean region to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. “Since March 19,...
Lunes, 28/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Aluvión enciende las alertas (Alluvium triggers alerts) - See Monday's stories in CHL. Cuenca - Obras en marcha al norte y sur (Work underway to the north and south) - Several major public works projects have...
By Andres Oppenheimer Latin America’s biggest democracies are making a huge mistake in failing to denounce, without ambiguity, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and in not imposing even symbolic sanctions on dictator Vladimir Putin. They not only are on the wrong side of...
More than 250,000 Cuencanos, about a third of the city’s population, were without drinking water at midday Monday and officials say service may not be fully restored until midnight at the earliest. The public utility ETAPA said the shutoff was due to contamination...
Emergency personnel worked through the night Sunday looking for survivors of a mudslide that destroyed homes and blocked roads in Marianza, in the hills above Sayausí. At least four people were reported killed. The mudslide and flooding followed intense rains that...
A powerful 6.0 earthquake rocked Esmeraldas and the north coast late Saturday night, collapsing several structures and damaging others. The 11:28 p.m. quake was followed by several strong aftershocks, one of 5.1 magnitude. Electricity service was disrupted in many...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mark a troubling shift: the end of a relatively peaceful global era. Though it has not always felt like it, the world has since the 1990s endured less war than any other period in recorded history. Wars and resulting deaths plummeted...
Following a day of meetings at Carondelet Palace, there was no indication of President Guillermo Lasso’s next move following the defeat of his investment law in the National Assembly. Early Friday, the presidential press office said Lasso would issue a statement...
By Sarah Durn In Ecuador, people spin tales of the one-legged protector of the Andes, La Patasola, a beautiful woman who leads unsuspecting men to their doom for damaging the environment. In Mexico, there is La Llorona, a grieving specter ready to steal your children...
(Yeah I know ... not much happening here in the pueblo today.) Sprucing up for the celebration of the founding of the parroquia de Vilcabamba. I was curious as to how the colors were chosen so I chatted with one of the municipal workers on site. He said basically...
There is a new and particularly notable opponent to the Brazilian government’s plans to allow mining on indigenous lands — the mining industry itself. Proposed rules backed by President Jair Bolsonaro are considered too lax by large miners. In a statement Tuesday,...
