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Miércoles, 2/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - 689 ecuatorianos a salvo (689 Ecuadorians safe) - Based on an official report from noon ayer, 689 Ecuadorians succeeded in crossing the border of Ukraine. They are all in good health and staying in...
By Leita Hulmes Hi! It’s Leita again, a volunteer with the Ecuadorian charitable foundation called Hearts of Gold. I wanted to give an update to all the supporters of Hearts’ “All Children Deserve to Dream” program. Through the Global Giving platform, your...
By Diane Jeantet, Mauricio Savarese and Deborah Rey Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future. But in South America — which in just the last month has had deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfire in Argentine wetlands and...
Martes, 1/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Carnaval multicolor (Multicolor Carnival ) - During Carnaval, various communities of the Cañari people also celebrated Lalay Raimy or Paukar Raymi. This was basically a photo article so not translatable. Cuenca -...
While countries like Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua have been vocal in their support of President Vladimir Putin. Cuba's Miguel...
By Matt Egan Russia faces the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown. Punishing sanctions leveled by the West have sent the ruble crashing to record lows, shuttered Moscow's stock market and made Russian assets toxic on the world stage. The White House has even...
Lunes, 28/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Carnaval dinamiza al Azuay (Carnival energizes Azuay) - Even in the rain and cold wind, people celebrated carnaval in Cuenca's neighboring cantons of Gualaceo, Choreleg, Sígsig and Paute. Kids jugaron carnaval...
Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said Monday night that 388 Ecuadorians have left Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion, 257 of them arriving in Poland. According to Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín, most say they want to return to Ecuador on a charter flight that...
By Steve Rosenberg Let me begin with an admission. So many times, I've thought: "Putin would never do this." Then he goes and does it. "He'd never annex Crimea, surely?" He did. "He'd never start a war in the Donbas." He did. "He'd never launch a full-scale invasion...
More than150 Ecuadorians, most of them university students, have arrived in Poland from Ukraine in the last 24 hours, the Foreign Ministry reports. The ministry says that an unknown number of other Ecuadorians have crossed the borders into Slovakia, Hungary, Romania...
By Esteban Cordero Balarezo Although many communities in Ecuador claim to host the best Carnaval celebration, none can top the tradition in Guaranda, a picturesque city in the shadow of the Chimborazo volcano, in Bolivar Province. In 2020, just weeks before the...
By Melissa Kirsch When the present moment is stressful or uncomfortable, when the future seems especially fuzzy or uncertain, nostalgia offers a balm. It’s why many of us turned to “Friends” reunions, “Sopranos” re-binges and childhood video games earlier in the...
It is unclear exactly how many Ecuadorians are living in Ukraine. On Wednesday, the government gave an estimate of 700 but increased it to 1,500 Thursday. “Our citizens are there for many reasons, including being married to Ukrainian nationals, and it is impossible to...
An estimated 600,000 Ecuadorians will take to the roads for the four-day Carnaval weekend, from Saturday to Tuesday. Along with Cuenca’s independence holiday which combines with the Day of Dead in October, it is the longest holiday of the year. The holiday is also...
By Chantal Flores The first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and...
Cuenca city officials hoped to confine Thursday’s Noche de los Compadres and Comadres, the official opening of the Carnaval holidays, to San Francisco Plaza but the plaza couldn’t contain the massive turnout. Surrounding streets and Parque Calderon, the traditional...
Jueves, 24/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - See article below in "Region" for carnaval activities in Cañar Titular - "No hay...llame otro día" ("There aren't any...call another day.") - As typical for the past years, affiliates of the Instituto Ecuatoriano de...
By Egle Gerulaityte Bracing against the cold air at an altitude of 2,650 meters, I made my way down a foggy, narrow mountain road in the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes. Its switchbacks were slick with moisture from the mist, vegetation slowly creeping up the cracks in...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is creating what Ecuador Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín, Foreign Minister calls a “number of complicated scenarios.” The country will profit from soaring oil prices that moved above $100 a barrel Thursday, he said, but exporters...
President Guillermo Lasso has signed an order that could allow an estimated 5,200 inmates early release from the country's over-crowded prisons. During a Tuesday interview, he said that judges will have the final say in all cases. A series of 2021 riots in the...
