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By Saleem H. Ali The allure of the Galapagos Islands as the cradle of Darwin's insights on natural selection remains a major draw for scientists to the volcanic archipelago. Located less than a thousand miles west of the South American mainland, this exotic...
Two-thirds of Ecuadorians say their personal economic situation is worse than it was a year ago, with 82% blaming it on the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost as many, 63 percent, believe that most of their elected officials are corrupt. In the latest Political Culture of...
By Craig Murray Texaco Oil operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil, polluting more than 800,000 hectares. It...
Jueves, 5/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Festival de la trucha reactivará a Sayausí (Trout festival will reactivate Sayausí) - The first trout festival will be this sábado from 9-17:00 in the parish center of Sayausí. It is being organized by a group of...
The Chilean soccer federation asked FIFA to investigate its claim that Ecuador player Byron Castillo is actually Colombian and not entitled to have played in qualifying games. The complaint comes more than one month after South American qualifying ended and Ecuador...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday urged the United States to boost investment in Central America to help curb migration, saying not enough had been done. "Almost nothing has been invested so far except to build walls that doesn't work," Lopez...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, to allow representatives of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas. In a phone conversation with Biden Friday, Lopez Obrador confirmed his...
National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori has 10 days to defend herself against charges that she failed to carry out her executive duties. The commission assigned to investigate Llori is holding hearings this week based on complaints filed by Social Christian...
Miércoles, 4/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Sigue la indefinición (Indecision continues) - See Wednesday's article in CHL for more information. Cuenca - Lineamientos del Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education Guidelines) - The Ministry of...
Peru's government has announced a plan to buy the nation's entire supply of illegal coca leaf -- the primary ingredient in cocaine -- for at least a year, as part of its battle against drug trafficking. The South American country is one of the world's three largest...
Saying the Covid-19 epidemic is “under control” in Ecuador, Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Tuesday that only the emergence of a new, more dangerous variant would cause the government to reverse its decision to drop the face mask decision. “We have entered a new...
Martes, 3/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Anticipan exceso de candidatos (Excess of candidates anticipated) - <Aren't you glad you live in Ecuador? Not only bio-diversity but politi-diversity. Just the idea of having too many parties and...
By Joseph Choi The United States Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) on Tuesday issued a recommendation against people over the age of 60 using daily aspirin intake as a primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease. According to the independent, expert...
By Aaron Joshua Spray The Inca Empire was centered in Peru -- the capital of Cusco and Machu Picchu are both in Peru. But the empire was much greater than that and expanded as far south as Santiago in Chile and as far north as Colombia. It included all of Ecuador and...
When the federal prison opened at Turi in 2014, almost all of its inmates came from Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago Provinces in southern Ecuador. “The plan, developed during the [Rafael] Correa government, was that it would be regional facility for convicts from the...
Lunes, 2/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - The "Cuenca Activa e Inclusiva" Festival will be held el sábado, 7/5 in the Alejandro Serrano Aguilar stadium with a free concert by the Tercer Mundo band. The event is being organized by the Empresa de Movilidad, Tránsito y...
By Mara van der Lugt In the 17th and 18th centuries, a group of Western philosophers came to clashes, on the page at least, over the age-old problem of evil: the question of how a good God could allow the existence of evil and suffering in the world. Philosophers such...
By Monica Machicao In the Andean mountains of Bolivia's high western plains where snow lies powdered over dark rocks that rise into a hard gray sky, scientists and climbers are fighting for the future of a dying glacier that has become a controversial lure for...
Participants in Sunday’s May Day parades in Ecuador made it clear that this year’s event was more than a symbolic march for the rights of labor. “We are making a statement that we are in complete opposition to the government in Quito,” said Jose Ramos, vice president...
By Samuel Petrequin Former Ecuador president Rafael Correa said the political asylum he has been granted in Belgium is proof he is persecuted by his country's authorities and did not rule out a return to politics in an interview with the Associated Press last week....
