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By Jeremiah Reardon I slipped in black mud on Taitachugo, a mountain in El Cajas National Park. Retreating from a climb to 3600 meter (11,800 feet) altitude with friends, I had lost my footing on a trail trod by alpacas, llamas and horses as confirmed by their scat....
By David Leonhardt Breakthrough infections — in which vaccinated people nonetheless get the Covid-19 virus — are one of those vexing topics that can be difficult to put in perspective. On the one hand, breakthrough infections are obviously occurring. They’ve happened...
The Quito Municipal Council has lowered capacity limits for restaurants, shopping malls and large department stores. The council said it is considering imposing additional biosecurity measures for public spaces and may require city employees to be vaccinated. The new...
Leonidas Iza, the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), is wasting no time in presenting his demands to the government. “There should total amnesty for all of the 600 protesters arrested in the 2019 uprising and immediate...
Lunes, 26/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del periodico de viernes, 23/7/2021 - 50 leyendas se traducen al inglés (50 legends translated into English) - A professor of Técnicas de la Traducción in Estudios Internacionales (Translation Techniques in International...
By Michael Rosenbaum, MD and George Bray, MD In 1962, the noted physiologist Edwin Astwood, MD, PhD, wrote "Obesity is a disorder which, like venereal disease, is blamed upon the patient. The finding that treatment doesn't work is ascribed to lack of fortitude." At...
By Alexandra Jaffe The United States served notice Monday that it will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant. It was the latest sign that the...
Hospital intensive care units in seven of Ecuador’s 24 provinces, including Azuay, are at 100 percent capacity, the national Emergency Operations Committee reports. The COE said Sunday that about half of the units are occupied by Covid-19 patients, the number of which...
By John Keeble Cuenca's Andean musicians, forced off stage by the pandemic, are emerging Saturday, July 31, in an online revival of Mi Cuenca Canta! – and, thanks to the generosity of personal donors, they are being paid to perform for the first time in over a year....
There are angels who live among us that we often do not recognize. I, for one, was taught that angels wear flowing white robes with cutouts for their wings and ample wiggle room to accommodate the agility required to play the harp or toot a brass horn. However, I now...
For the second consecutive week, Ecuador ranked first among all Latin American countries in administering Covid-19 vaccines per capita, with an average of 300,000 a day receiving the jab. Last week, the country led the world in the category, according to the World...
Richard Carapaz brought home the gold medal for Ecuador in the men’s Olympic road race in Tokyo on Saturday in a pulsating finale that saw the climber drop his main rivals on the last two climbs. Carapaz's prize was only Ecuador's second gold medal in Olympic...
By John Keeble GRACE, the Cuenca foundation set up to help mostly Venezuelan and Colombian refugees, is seeing a steady flow of children and adults seeking medical and dental help as the city's hospitals grapple with Covid disruption. Children under 12 form the bulk...
By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick Vaccine mandates are controversial. They’re also effective. Before Houston Methodist became one of the first hospital systems in the U.S. to mandate Covid-19 vaccines, about 85 percent of its employees were vaccinated. After...
President Guillermo Lasso is considering the release of 5,000 non-violent prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding. The plan follows Wednesday night’s gang violence at the national prisons in Guayaquil and Latacunga that left 22 dead, including a policeman, and 70...
Jueves, 22/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - La Sinfónica interpretará la música de videojuegos (The Symphony will perform video game music) - The symphony will play music from video games such as Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and Zelda. The show...
Author'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 a seven-part series. This article explores...
By Sylvan Hardy and Deke Castleman Children pick up language easily. Their nervous systems make new neural connections at lightning speeds. Computer simulations of neural activity in the early years of life look like all the cars in Los Angeles squeezed onto the...
By Gabriel Crossley China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said....
By Sylvan Hardy A notable byproduct of the pandemic for many expats is that they are walking more. The news of a year ago that the Covid-19 virus rarely transmits outdoors, set many of us free from the cabin fever we suffered since the first lockdowns began last March...
