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By Alison Cramer Unlike Manta, Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, where drug-related gang warfare has reached "emergency" proportions, Cuenca's murder and violent crime rate has held steady during the Covid-19 pandemic. "We are lucky in this regard," says retired criminology...
Following his election as president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Sunday, Leonidas Iza pledged he would begin a new “era of activism” for the indigenous movement in Ecuador. Iza was one of the leaders of the October 2019 national...
What do you do when tragedy hits while you are thousands of miles away? What do you do when tragedy hits while you are thousands of miles away? This is a question I receive all the time from worried pre-pats. For me, the answer has always been simple: Buy a plane...
By Archa Fox, Jen Martin and Traude Beilharz Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines, which contain tiny fragments of the genetic material known as “messenger ribonucleic acid”. And if social media is anything to go by, some people are concerned these...
By Julie Turkewitz Already, two of Gloria Vásquez’s children had dropped out of school during the pandemic, including her 8-year-old, Ximena, who had fallen so far behind that she struggled with the most basic arithmetic. “One plus one?” Ms. Vásquez quizzed her...
Overwhelmed by increasing crime in the coastal provinces, most of it drug related, Ecuador’s National Police are turning the military for help. Jorge Cabrera, head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, said he would assign personnel and material to assist in the...
With the night falling we are saying thank you on the plaza, bowing to pigeons, or proclaiming the sky, we say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing in the shadows looking out in our direction back from a series of hospitals back from a...
Police in the Russian capital detained at least eight people on June 26 after a Communist-led rally opposing compulsory vaccination against Covid-19. The gathering attracted several hundred people and police reportedly moved in after the event was concluding....
Chile announced Friday the closure of borders until July 14 and will extend for 90 more days, until September 30, the constitutional state of emergency due to the arrival of the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus, which has left 1.52 million infected and 31,797 dead...
By Hugo Bachega At around midday on May 11, Dario Kopenawa, an indigenous leader, received a desperate phone call from a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon. Palimiú has a population of about 1,000, who live in large communal houses on the banks of a river called...
Vice President Alfredo Borrero said Thursday that the government is taking immediate action to bring the country’s public and Social Security hospitals up to professional standards. “In my tour of hospitals, I have found massive deficiencies in all facilities,” he...
Jueves, 24/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Chats de Celi le complican (Celi's chats complicate things) - Chats found on Comptroller Pablo Celi's phone were presented to AG Diana Salazar during Celi's hearing to his sentence to...
Former NSA consultant and data privacy advocate Edward Snowden tweeted on Wednesday that Julian Assange "could be next," after antivirus mogul John McAfee died by apparent suicide in a Barcelona prison cell following news that he was being extradited to the U.S. on...
By Carla Johnson and Mike Stobbe Nearly all Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero...
President Guillermo Lasso’s surgery to remove a spinal cyst was successful, doctors at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital said Wednesday afternoon. Lasso’s son said the president was resting comfortably following the operation and will remain in the hospital through...
Miércoles, 23/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Aumentan contagios por COVID en Azuay (COVID infections increase in Azuay) - In the past week, MSP registered a 25% increase in Covid cases in Cuenca, leaving health authoritiies worried...
Editor's note: Time is running out for Ecuador to save its Amazon rainforests -- areas which have 10,000 times the biodiversity of the Galapagos islands. Ethno-ecologist Adam Gebb looks at the problems and possibilities in this seven-part series about wildlife,...
American software pioneer John McAfee, 75, was found dead of an apparent suicide on Wednesday in a prison cell in Barcelona, Spain, according to McAfee's lawyer, Nishay Sanan. "I am saddened to hear of the events and my prayers go out to his wife Janice," Sanan said...
Argentina and Mexico have recalled their ambassadors to Nicaragua following the latest in a series of high-profile political arrests. A joint statement said the envoys would return to their capitals for talks about the Nicaraguan government's "worrying" actions...
The news of late has been as gloomy as the weather. Eduardo Stein, the special representative of the UN refugee agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), recently referred to Venezuala in this way, “The IOM has never faced such movement of refugees out...
