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By Matt Taibbi Just over ten years ago, on July 25, 2010, Wikileaks released 75,000 secret U.S. military reports involving the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel helped release the documents, which were devastating to America’s...
The National Assembly meets for the second time Saturday afternoon after Friday’s effort to elect a president fell one vote short. In a surprise move, President-elect Guillermo Lasso’s Creo party pulled out of an agreement with the Social Christians and the Correista...
Residents of the Colombian city of Cali, the epicenter of protests against the government of Ivan Duque, are struggling under the weight of demonstrators’ road blockades, which have tripled some foods prices and made gasoline scarce. The city, the country's third...
By German Lopez America’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout has dwindled in recent weeks, plummeting from a previous high of nearly 3.4 million doses administered a day, on average, in mid-April to around 2.2 million a day this week. The best analogy I’ve heard to explain the...
As the newly elected National Assembly meets today for the first time, it already faces controversy. In a deal only revealed late Wednesday, the Assembly’s two conservative parties, Creo (Creating Opportunity) and the Social Christians, have formed an alliance with...
Jueves, 13/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Artesanos inauguran tienda y galería (Artisans open store and gallery) - AYNI, a space where artisans can sell their works, opened today. A group of craftspeople formed a cooperative with the help...
By Adrianna Rodriguez The U.S. public health system was thrust into the limelight by the coronavirus pandemic, and a survey published Thursday found many Americans aren't happy with its performance. According to the survey, conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson...
Cuenca bus owners announced Thursday afternoon that they will suspend next week's strike as talks continue with the city on a variety of issues. "This is a temporary action based on negotiations with the municipality about the allocation of routes, bus capacity...
An angry President Lenín Moreno blasted pharmaceutical companies Wednesday night for delays in shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to Ecuador. “We have contracts for these doses that were signed months ago. We have made our payments and have the dates we should receive...
Miércoles, 12/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - A 5 ejes destinarán crédito CAF (CAF credit will be allocated to 5 areas) - The Concejo Cantonal approved a new debt from the Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina (CAF) in the amount of...
The Cuenca Transport Chamber, which represents the owners of the city's 475 municipal buses, announced Wednesday that it will end service beginning Monday, May 17. According to the Chamber, the service stoppage is the result of an “economic crisis” due to increasing...
By Kaylee McGhee White A well-respected science writer has published a thoughtful and convincing piece this week that helps confirm what most people with common sense have long believed: Covid-19 wasn’t just randomly discovered in a Chinese wet market; it escaped from...
President-elect Guillermo Lasso’s proposal to use Ecuador’s election system to administer Covid-19 vaccines is being praised by health professionals and politicians. Diana Atamaint, president of the National Election Council said the plan is “workable” and she is...
Martes, 11/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Fotografías y obras de artists en dos espacios culturales (Photographs and works by artists in two cultural spaces) - A photo exhibit about the restoration and change of use of the property that...
By Minda Zetlin Malcolm Gladwell believes that the post-Covid world will be a much better and more hopeful place than it was before the pandemic. He explained his reasoning in a thought-provoking talk at last month's virtual Adobe Summit. Gladwell is best known for...
By Tom Metcalfe A grim artifact that had been placed on display for decades in a Georgia university has been authenticated as a human head taken from a slain enemy by an Amazonian warrior almost a century ago — and is now on its way back to where it came from....
The head of one of Latin America’s most prominent business families, Juan Eljuri, died Monday at 78. His death was announced by his brothers Henry and Olga, his sister Gladys and his son, Juan Eljuri, Jr,, all of Cuenca. President Lenin Moreno and President-elect...
By Andres Oppenheimer El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has a 90 percent popularity rate in his country, perhaps the highest one in the region. But power has gone to his head, and his latest takeover of the Salvadoran justice system threatens to turn him into Latin...
By Karl Sweetman In a recent opinion piece published here on CuencaHighLife, the author complained of being “tired of all the sickness, the anti-science, the hatred and the idiocy.” Well, I’m tired too. I’m tired of baseless insults. I’m tired of attitudes like those...
By Mac Margolis When Colombians voted in a 42-year-old development wonk as president in 2018, they knew it was a leap of faith. But what Ivan Duque lacked in political adroitness (he’d served a single term as a senator), the argument went, he would finesse as an...
