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By Medea Benjamin Ecuador's April 11 election that led to a 5-point victory by conservative banker Guillermo Lasso over progressive candidate Andrés Arauz was not what it appeared to be. On the surface, it was a surprisingly clean and professional election, as our...
By David Knowles Scientific American magazine announced Monday that it would stop using the term "climate change" in articles about man-made global warming and substitute "climate emergency" instead. "Journalism should reflect what science says: the climate emergency...
By Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera She wore a ponytail and a red T-shirt, the words “Glitter Girl” sketched across the front. Gripping her mother’s hand, she spoke softly, describing how she had been forced out of school by Venezuela’s economic crisis, and then was...
Jueves, 15/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Vacunas para las áreas rurales, piden (Asking for vaccines for rural areas) - Mayors of Azuayan cities outside of Cuenca are worried because of the low presence of vaccination teams in rural...
Ongoing volcanic eruptions have displaced about 20% of people in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent as a U.N. official on Wednesday warned of a growing humanitarian crisis. Between 16,000 to 20,000 people were evacuated under government orders before La...
By Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is poised to fracture societies worldwide, increase instability across the globe and reshape political and economic realities for years to come, the US intelligence community warned in a...
By Lief Simon Living or doing business in another country, how should you handle requests for a little something on the side to help grease the wheels? A friend, a businessman in Ecuador, told me about a survey carried out in that country a few years ago. That survey...
The Cuenca Soup Kitchen reminds expats that many Ecuadorians are suffering the hidden consequences of poverty. More than 40 percent of children in Ecuador live in extreme poverty, much of it the result of the Covid pandemic. One of those hidden consequences is the...
Claiming that a lack of employment is Ecuador’s biggest problem, President-elect Guillermo Lasso presented what he called a “liberal vision agenda" to reactivate the economy. “We believe in a free entrepreneurial economy that provides opportunities for all,” he said....
Miércoles, 14/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Detenidos por corrupción en Petroecuador (Arrested for corruption in Petroecuador) - Ayer, Attorney General Diana Salazar, led 25 raids and the arrest of 9 people including the Comptroller...
Former president Rafael Correa said Tuesday that he plans to keep up his political fight from exile despite his protege's election defeat. He was a key presence in Sunday's presidential election despite the fact that he wasn't on the ballot and lives in Belgium. He...
By Stefano Pozzebon More than a year into the pandemic and as cases resurge in Latin America, two recent elections suggest that popular political views on how to escape the crisis remain deeply polarized -- at a time when cohesion is most needed. South American...
New test results for the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine show that it is 100% effective against severe cases, including hospitalizations and death, of the virus despite being less effective than other vaccines against milder cases. A late-stage trial in Brazil,...
Martes, 13/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Inauguran dos exposiciones de artistas (Two art exhibits open) - Cristina Urgilés Martínez opened "RespirArte...como te vivo Cuenca" ayer at the Casa Patrimonial del Alfarero (calle Lamar y...
By David Leonhardt The development of the Covid-19 vaccines happened with great urgency, for obvious reasons. One of the timesaving techniques by Moderna and Pfizer involved scheduling the two vaccine doses fairly close together — just three or four weeks apart —...
By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio and Rodrigo Pedroso A huge statue of Jesus Christ is under construction in southern Brazil, and it will be even taller than its famous counterpart in Rio de Janeiro. The "Christ the Protector" statue is being built in Encantado, a small town...
By Mitra Taj Peru’s presidential election is headed for a runoff, with Pedro Castillo, a far-left former union activist and teacher, in the lead, according to data released Monday by the country’s electoral body. He will likely face a right-wing candidate in a second...
President-elect Guillermo Lasso on Monday announced a "true change" in crisis-wracked Ecuador after bringing to an end an era of left-wing election victories. The 65-year-old former banker beat socialist economist Andres Arauz in Sunday's poll with official results...
Lunes, 12/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Old articles from el sábado, 10/4 - Un museo para conocer el cacao ecuatoriano (A museum to get to know Ecuadorian cocoa) - <Just what all of you choloholics have been waiting for.> After more...
Although the world’s capital markets breathed a sigh of relief following the victory of Guillermo Lasso on Sunday, he says he will not raise the country’s VAT tax from the current 12 percent. The International Monetary Fund has been pressuring current President Lenin...
