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By Maria Cheg and Lori Hinnant In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter...
Ecuador and Paraguay have both received some 20,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine from Chile, the governments of the recipient countries said on Saturday. The donation of a total 40,000 doses provided a stark example of the disparities in South American...
I posted a column a couple of years back regarding the responsibility of expats to contribute their fair share to the well-being of our community. The message bears revisiting. Jeanne’s Periodico recently reported the following. "The federal government owes $1.054...
Mexico City has launched the first of what it hopes will be several cable-car lines serving the poorer outskirts of the city of nine million. Thursday’s inauguration of the first leg of the "Cablebus" line marks the latest chapter in Latin America’s love affair with...
Ecuador Interior Minister Patricio Pazmiño has resigned following deadly prison riots that left 80 dead on February 23, citing “personal reasons” but also complaining about “unfair accusations” made about police and prison officials. In his resignation letter to...
By Luke O’Neill The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If it all holds up, people will be protected from severe disease, the amount of virus...
By Liam Higgins Almost unnoticed in the aftermath of the February 7 national election was the death of the movement that dominated Ecuador’s political landscape for 14 years. Founded by former president Rafael Correa among others, Alianza Pais, failed to place a...
Jueves, 4/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina educación y cultura - Semana de la artesanía y diseño alista el CIDAP (CIDAP readies craft and design week) - So that the traditional spaces in which artisans work don't disappear, CIDAP is organizing a series...
By Jeff Salz Marvin and Bruno are brothers who started living on the football field next to our home about a month ago. After a week of watching their antics in amazement -- enjoying their almost magical prowess with a soccer ball, their relentless hard training...
By Lauren Mascarenhas The risk of death from Covid-19 is an astonishing 10 times higher in countries where most of the population is overweight, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Obesity Forum. The new findings may explain why there are so many...
According to transit police, all major highways leading into and out of Cuenca were impassable early Wednesday night. After a massive landslide closed the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway through the Cajas Mountains, transportation officials suggested drivers use alternative...
Miércoles, 3/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Hay riesgos de desbordamientos (There are risks of overflows) - The Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) is predicting heavy rains for the rest of the week in Cuenca, the...
A demographic study of global migration patterns by the University of Barcelona and InterNations predicts that Cuenca and Quito will continue to rank one and two as the most popular landing spots in Ecuador and South America for international expats as the impact of...
Martes, 2/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Daños por lluvias (Rain damage) - The rains have caused damage in Pucará, Santa Isabel, Girón and Cuenca in Azuay and in Azogues in Cañar. <Following is basically a list of damage so...
By Stephen Vargha Worldwide, there is no shortage of delicious and highly rated vegan restaurants. The website Happy Cow, that works like Yelp, but only for vegan and vegetarian food, lists at least 5,523 plant-based restaurants in South America. Not surprising,...
--Sponsored post-- By Gwen Hyatt I am drawn to public places, enticing spaces to soak up the vibe and the culture of the local area. The world is full of lugares publico, or public places. I am drawn to public places, enticing spaces to soak up the vibe and the...
Ecuador has named a new health minister after the previous minister stepped down over alleged irregularities in the country's Covid-19 vaccination program. President Lenin Moreno on Monday announced that Rodolfo Farfán, a 63-year-old surgeon from Guayaquil, who served...
Despite periodic highway blockages on E35 on Monday, traffic continued to move, albeit slowly, on the country’s main north-south route. “We are working with the protesters to allow the passage of vehicles but we are advising the public that movement is slow and...
Aviation officials are asking Latam-Ecuador airlines for clarification of a weekend announcement that it plans to “outsource” its passenger service operations to other companies. The airline, which has suffered heavy losses throughout South America as a result of the...
Lunes, 1/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Un año conviviendo con el virus (A year living with the virus) - Although it is hard to know the exact date of the first coronavirus patient in Cuenca, data from the Ministerio de Salud Pública...
