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By Molly Taft Humans have produced so many chemicals and environmental pollutants that we’re currently exceeding the limits of a “safe operating space for humanity,” a new study finds. That could mean that the planet, as well as our health and wellbeing, is in serious...
The Attorney General’s office defended itself Wednesday for recommending a prison sentence for a police officer who shot two men who were attacking a teenager last year in Riobamba. Corporal Santiago Olmedo was sentenced to three years and four month in prison for...
Miércoles, 19/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Abel Azcona expone en Galería Taló (Abel Azcona exhibits at Taló Gallery) - Spanish artist Abel Azcona has started an exhibition tour in Ecuador with the first show opening tomorrow in Cuenca at the Galería Taló...
Indigenous communities in Ecuador on Tuesday presented hundreds of thousands of signatures to the country's top court to demand their right to make final decisions on use of ancestral lands they say are threatened by expansion of extractive projects. The indigenous...
By Andrea Jaramillo and Oscar Medina Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels. Oil and coal currently account for...
By executive decree on Tuesday, President Guillermo Lasso, repealed Ecuador’s Foreign Currency Outflow Tax for suppliers of fuel and natural gas. The assessment, commonly called the exit tax, remains at 4.75 percent for other financial transfers out of the country but...
Martes, 18/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Corresponsabilidad (Co-responsibility) <I think this concept comes more easily to a culture that still has mingas - less to someone from an Anglo-Saxon dominant culture where each individual is his own...
Don’t go to the library today, there are too many words already. Pick up an instrument instead. -- Rumi __________________ American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and...
Ecuador will ask its citizens to vote in a 2023 consultation to reform its justice system, President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday, amid accusations that decisions by judges are holding back efforts to fight crime. Violence and crime, including within the prison...
By Li Yuan China’s “zero Covid” policy has a dedicated following: the millions of people who work diligently toward that goal, no matter the human costs. In the northwestern city of Xi’an, hospital employees refused to admit a man suffering from chest pains because he...
Lunes, 17/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From the Ellos y Ellas Sunday supplement - Hangry Hippo <I'm not sure if I should put this here or in the advertising section, but it's an article so it's here.> - A new restaurant/bar that welcomes both people and...
By Michael Stott What was good for copper was good for Chile’s peso. The fortunes of the currency of the world’s largest copper exporter were closely tied to the price of its main export. Last year the pattern broke. World copper prices rose 25 per cent in 2021, but...
In a Sunday night emergency meeting, the Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee reduced capacity for restaurants, theaters, gyms, markets, supermarkets, financial institutions and public offices to 30 percent. The action follows a rapid rise in Covid infections, most...
Ecuador’s Oceanic Research Institute called off the tsunami warning Sunday that it had issued a day earlier, saying wave and sea level activity had returned to normal levels. The warning followed the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga-Ha’apai volcano off the coast...
During the first two weeks of 2022, deaths from Covid-19 have dropped to their lowest level since late March 2020. According to the Ministry of Health, the country is registering 1.6 virus deaths per 1,000 positive cases. In contrast, the death count was 43 per 1,000...
About 70 Cuencanos opposed to Covid-19 vaccines and government mandates marched up Calle Simon Bolivar Thursday afternoon. Afterward, the group gathered at what has become known as the rincón de movilización, or protest corner, in Parque Calderon, waving signs at...
By Jane Cotter Dental hygiene has come a long way since the days of wine-soaked toothpicks and the urine mouthwash once thought to disinfect mouths and whiten teeth. Some of the earliest tooth-cleaning artifacts archaeologists have found are ancient toothpicks, dental...
President Guillermo Lasso, Colombian President Iván Duque and former U.S. President Bill Clinton will officially open the expanded Galapagos marine reserve today in Puerto Ayora. The three presidents, as well as the foreign ministers from Costa Rica and Panama, will...
Latam Airlines has warned the Cuenca airport authority to expect more flight cancellations as dozens of its Ecuador-based employees are sick with Covid. The airline has cancelled four flights since Sunday and says it may be forced to cancel one to two daily flights to...
Jueves, 13/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Exposiciones reactivan los espacios culturales (Exhibitions reactivate cultural spaces) - With the beginning of the year, cultural spaces have opened new exhibits. "Juguetes, de lo ingenuo a lo perverso" by artist Darwin...
