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By Michelle Starr For all humanity's success as a species at the top of its game, it's likely that we'll never finish evolving. From passive selection pressures to those that are self-inflicted, the forces that shape our ongoing evolutionary journey are as fascinating...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 14/5) Agenda - 16/5 a las 16-18:00 - Theatricalized route - Fairy tales, legends and stories about chocolate with the Barojo Collective - Museo Catedral Antigua - Cost: $10.00 16/5 a las 20:00 - Election of the Symbolic Mother -...
Of an estimated 4,000 short-term rental units in Cuenca, only 160 are registered with the municipality, according to Lorena Guillén, director of the Cuenca Tourism Foundation. The estimate follows an Internal Revenue Service report earlier in the week that found that...
There are few activities more satisfying than preparing dinner with music playing in the background, a glass of wine close at hand, and the satisfying aroma of the finishing product. We are challenged to consume in order to live — but we are graced with the gift of...
Peru's National Office of Electoral Processes finalized the official vote count Friday after 33 days of scrutiny and legal challenges, confirming that right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez will compete in a presidential runoff June...
Although the government celebrated a Miami judge’s decision to deny asylum to former Interior Minister José Serrano, it did not mention why he will not be sent back to Ecuador to face charges in the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio....
By Carolina Mella The scene has been repeating itself for 72 hours in Ecuador’s two largest cities: lines of vehicles snaking around corners, drivers waiting for hours in the sun, and gas pumps only allowing customers to fill up with $15 or $20 worth of gasoline. In...
In an age when much of television is disposable, forgettable, or so relentlessly superficial that even its creators probably struggle to recall it six months later, ITV's Up series is a towering achievement. It may well be one of the most important television...
By Callum Williams Silicon Valley, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, is relentlessly focused on the future. This attitude has many benefits. It helps people devote themselves to creating new technologies, many of which change the world. But it has a cost,...
Despite government claims that there is no gasoline shortage, gas stations in Quito, Guayaquil and other cities were running out of Extra and Ecopaís gasoline on Tuesday and Wednesday due to high demand. In Quito, some gas stations reported back-ups of 20 to 30 cars...
By Trisha Pasricha, MD When it comes to plastic-related particles and chemicals, people often feel helpless and overwhelmed. Plastic contamination feels so pervasive, inevitable and frustrating, especially since the research is limited on how to reduce your exposure....
By Garry Vatcher Ten years ago, Hogar de Esperanza began with very little. There was no large organization, no strong financial base, no guarantee of success. When we opened our doors on May 1, 2016, I had paid the rent for the month and had $100 left in my bank...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that Ecuador has replaced Colombia as the world's largest exporter of cocaine and claimed that government officials and judges in Ecuador are working “hand-in-hand” with drug traffickers. He added that Ecuador has also...
Antigua and Barbuda has nominated Ecuador's Maria Fernanda Espinosa as candidate to be the next United Nations Secretary-General, a U.N. official told Reuters on Tuesday. Espinosa, a former foreign affairs minister and defense minister in Ecuador, was president...
There are certain dishes that arrive not as recipes, but as recollections, and Sauerbraten is one of them, because I did not so much learn it as absorb it, at the age of fifteen, in a part of Germany where the forests were black, the food was serious, and the map had...
Former President Lenin Moreno was in court Monday in Quito to face charges that he, his wife and daughter received millions of dollars in bribes from Sinohydro, the Chinese contractor for the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project. Moreno was vice president at the...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del viernes, 8/5) Exposición colectiva en el Salón del Pueblo (Group exhibition at the Salón del Pueblo) - The collective show, "Mujer, materia y memoría" opened last Wednesday in the Salón del Pueblo "Efraín Jara Idrovo" and will run during...
After spending enough time around relationships abroad, you may begin to notice something else. Not just how relationships form. Not just what people exchange within them. But why some connections gradually become more genuine over time. This is not always obvious in...
By Paula Span Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Dr. Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was in “reasonably good health,”...
First blamed on rumors, long lines at gas stations in Quito and Guayaquil over the weekend are the result of reduced shipments to distribution centers, officials said Sunday. The Agency for Regulation and Control of Hydrocarbons (ARCH) acknowledged Sunday that lower...
