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Expecting a rocky start to 2022, Ecuadorian exporters say they are "more than pleased" with shipments in the first quarter of the year. “We didn’t know what to expect given the continuing pandemic and the war in Ukraine,” says Xavier Rosero, vice president of the...
Miércoles, 1/6/2022 Hola, Todos - Titular - Los niños y el cuidado del medio ambiente (Children and environmental care) - Wednesday's issue of El Mercurio is in celebration of the Día del Niño. The front page is artwork done by students at the Escuela Fiscomisional...
By Maureen Santucci Earth Day as a holiday began in 1970 — but here in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, every day is Earth Day, and it has been for centuries! That’s because Pachamama, or Mother Earth, plays an important role in Andean Cosmology. Pachamama is...
By David Leonhardt Covid cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the U.S., and deaths are starting to rise too, although not by much. In response, many people are understandably asking what the country can do to minimize the virus’s toll in the weeks ahead. So...
The National Assembly voted Tuesday night to remove Guadalupe Llori as president, replacing her with Assembly Vice President Virgilio Saquicela. The motion for Llori’s dismissal received 81 votes, 11 more than the 70 necessary. According to the motion, Llori was...
Martes, 31/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Homenaje a Francisco Paredes (Tribute to Francisco Paredes) - To pay tribute to composer Francisco Paredes Heredia, and to join different generations of musicians on one stage, the DIZA cultural organization is organizing...
Ecuador and Mexico report "substantial progress" toward a free trade agreement following the ninth round of negotiations held May 23 to 27 in Quito. Signing a final agreement is especially important for Ecuador as it will pave the way for its entrance into the...
Residents of the Puerto Alegre community near Otavalo took justice into their own hands Sunday, beating three suspected thieves and burning their car. “We have had enough of this criminality and won’t allow any more,” neighborhood leader Olander Manzano told a Radio...
By Chris Hedges The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No...
By Mark Hatter It’s 3 p.m., the hot, bright equatorial sun still remains high in its descending arch to the western horizon. The wind is calm and the sea smooth as our rigid bottom inflatable (aka RBI or panga) driver Alex, idles the short distance from the Galapagos...
By Stephen Farrand Richard Carapaz turned 29 on the day of the final stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia around Verona. His celebrations may have been bittersweet after victory escaped him and Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) pulled on the maglia rosa, but he was still...
By Jan Dynes It is time to start thinking like good builders. We are the architects of ourselves and the world around us, and the way we connect to it. Are we a good support system or are we contributing to erosion and mildew? If we are repeating our shortcomings or...
Editor’s note: Although hundreds of Quechuan words have been incorporated into the Spanish spoken in the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (notable examples include achachay for cold, borracho for drunk and chuchaqui for hung over), many others have become...
Two anti-establishment candidates, Gustavo Petro, a leftist, and Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing populist, captured the top two spots in Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, delivering a stunning blow to the country’s dominant conservative political class. With...
The effort to oust National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori hit another roadblock Friday when a Quito court ruled that Llori can ignore a report recommending her removal. The legal maneuver, requested by the Assembly’s Pachakutik bloc, of which Llori is a member,...
By Stephen Vargha As the people of Uvalde, Texas mourned, there was little agreement on the root cause of the tragedy or the solution to the staggering average of 321 gun deaths per day in the United States. Dr. Roxane Gay wrote in the New York Times, “Time and again...
By Cynthia Measom The average Social Security benefit in 2022 is $1,657 per month or right under $20,000 per year, according to AARP. If you're planning to live on just your Social Security check as a retiree in the U.S., it will be extremely difficult with only that...
Colombians head to the polls Sunday to pick a new president in one of the most turbulent times in its modern history. Six candidates are vying for the presidency in a country plagued by the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, social unrest and a deteriorating...
President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday that national law enforcement agencies need help from local governments to fight crime. “Ecuadorians tell us fighting crime should be the government’s top priority and I agree,” he said during a Wednesday television interview....
Jueves, 26/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Corpus: regresan dulces y castillos (Corpus Christi: candies and castles are back) - The fiesta of Corpus Christi is back after 3 years of pandemic-enforced absence. Sales of sweets and religious events around the Catedral...
