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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...
By Bruce Wilson This is just my experience and my opinions so take them as that. Just read and contemplate it. I've had a feeling for a long time that the pandemic had mostly petered out. In September 2020 in Machala, I asked the front door guards at the mall and a...
By Melissa Erickson Whether eggs are good or bad for you cholesterol often depends on what you eat with them. With six grams of protein, vitamins and nutrients yet no sugar or carbs, are an affordable wonder food. On the other hand, eggs are naturally high in...
Former Guayaquil banker Guillermo Lasso has scored an upset victory over Rafael Correa protégé Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential runoff election. With 98.2 percent of the vote counted early Monday, Lasso held an insurmountable 52.4 to 47.6 percent lead. Although...
In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," said...
Unless the election is too close to call, the National Election Council expects to declare a winner by 10 p.m. in today’s presidential runoff between Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso. The CNE says that vote counting should progress quickly since there is only one race...
Folks occasionally write to me when they are considering moving to Ecuador from Canada, or the U.S. This is largely due to my writing commentary for CuencaHighLife....
By Regina Garcia Cano and Mauricio Muñoz A surging coronavirus pandemic that has brought on new lockdown measures and exacerbated fatigue in Ecuador and Peru has left many voters generally indifferent to the names they will see on the ballots Sunday, when the...
For all the prophecies of doom about the outcome of Sunday’s election, the changes that will follow are likely to be relatively minor no matter who wins. Most of the dire forecasts come from right-wing and centrist editorialists and commentators. At their most...
By Somini Sengupta How does a country deal with climate disasters when it’s drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of...
Jueves, 8/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Un circuito para conocer Todos Santos (A circuit to get to know Todos Santos) - Provocando Experiencias is conducting tours to tell the stories that shaped the traditional Todos Santos barrio. The...
President Lenin Moreno fired Health Minister Mauro Falconí Wednesday night, blaming him for long waits at a Quito Covid-19 vaccination center earlier in the day. According to Moreno, some elderly people were forced to wait five hours due to a delay in vaccine...
Miércoles, 7/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - La cuarta Tertulia Cinema llega con una exposición (The fourth Tertulia Cinema arrives with an exhibition) - This edition of the Tertulia Cinema will include a show by Juliana Rengel, a collage...
I enjoy the lift that a freshly cut vase of flowers imparts to its environment. All flowers are enjoyable in the sense they elevate my mood. I enjoy the almost imperceptibly delicate to somewhat heavy perfumes they emit. Then, there are the shapes and the colors that...
By Kate Taylor, Avery Hartmans and Allana Akhtar As vaccines roll out across the U.S., thousands of people aren't getting vaccinated at CVS pharmacies or local health clinics. Instead, they're heading to abandoned Kmarts, Sears, and Toys R Us stores to get their...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that President Lenin Moreno’s 30-day Covid-19 state of emergency must end at midnight Friday and that continuing it until the end of the month would amount to an infringement on the constitutional rights of the country’s...
In addition to concerns about obtaining enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate 10 million Ecuadorians, the Ministry of Health suddenly has a new problem: people are not showing up for their shots. Based on preliminary data, the ministry says about 40 percent of those...
Martes, 6/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Del cuerpo del periodico - Muestra de pinturas en Casa de la Cultura (Exhibition of paintings in the Casa de la Cultura) - The CCE in Cañar is opening a show of paintings by artists in the province...
