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The streets of El Centro were crowded with tourists Friday night and Cuenca restaurant and hotel owners couldn’t be happier. “We expected more customers but this is even better than we hoped for,” said Jorge Ramirez, standing outside the café he manages in the new...
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Loveday Morris and Michael Birnbaum After working for three months straight at Detroit Medical Center, Said El Zein noticed that the coronavirus patients who began arriving in May appeared less sick than those who came before. More than 4,000...
By Michaeleen Doucleff In case you were still procrastinating getting a flu shot this year, here's another reason to make it a priority. There's a chance the vaccine could offer some protection against Covid-19 itself, says virologist Robert Gallo, who directs the...
Ecuadorians will be able to travel by private vehicle without restriction during the three-day Guayaquil independence holiday weekend. Although many of the country’s 221 municipalities have already lifted restrictions, some have not, making cross-country travel...
Scientists in Chile are investigating a possible mutation of the novel coronavirus in southern Patagonia, a far-flung region near the tip of the South American continent that has seen an unusually contagious second wave of infections in recent weeks. Dr. Marcelo...
By Nicolas Bloom One of the biggest changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has been the inundation of working from home — and it doesn’t come without challenges. As an economics professor at Stanford University, I’ve talked to dozens of CEOs, senior managers...
Jueves, 8/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - El Azuay abre sus puertas al turismo (Azuay opens its doors to tourism) - Self-care and security measures are the basis for opening Cuenca up to tourists during the national holiday that...
Miércoles, 7/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - En el Seminario San Luis se narrarán las historias del pasado (Stories of the past will be told at the San Luis Seminary) - As part of the 9 de octubre holiday, the Archdiocese of Cuenca and the...
Rafael Correa, the leftist leader who governed Ecuador for a decade and defaulted on its debt, and his protégé in next year’s presidential election said they would reject the spending cuts requested by the International Monetary Fund as part of a loan deal. "These...
By Emily Rauhala A nephew of President John F. Kennedy rallied a German crowd against big pharma and Bill Gates. American conspiracy theories have spurred anti-vaccine protests in Canada and Britain. A California-made video seeded “plandemic” panic around the world....
Martes, 6/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Méndez pedirá auditoría (Méndez will request an audit) - Cecilia Méndez assumed the post of prefect ayer, replacing Yaku Pérez who submitted his irrevocable resignation ayer and registered his...
By Miriam Drake First and foremost, be good to yourself. I cannot emphasize this enough! Ask yourself, “Without me, where would my patient be?” The point to remember above all else is to delegate early in the process of the illness or recovery, so that you avoid...
By Stephen Roach The riddle once posed in the 1960s by former French finance minister (eventually president) Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is about to be solved. Giscard bemoaned a U.S. that took advantage of its privileged position as the world’s dominant reserve currency...
Ecuador should raise its value added tax to at least 15 percent, substantially increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy, reduce tax exemptions and the size of government. According to the Ministry of Finance, those are the key demands the International Monetary...
The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday its “best estimates” indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases — and warned of a difficult period...
The International Monetary Fund on Monday said that member governments should use low-interest loans to invest in infrastructure to drive recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and a shift toward greener energy. In its publication Fiscal Monitor, the IMF said its...
Lunes, 5/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Horarios misas en la catedral (Times for mass in the cathedral) - Starting from 4/10, there will be new hours for mass in the New Cathedral. From lunes a jueves they will be at 7:00, 9:00, 12:00...
President Lenín Moreno announced Sunday that Ecuador will receive $7.15 billion during the next three months from five different international agencies. The money will be used to compensate laid-off workers, catch up salaries to government employees, pay contractors...
Although passenger numbers remain far below those at the beginning of the year, Juan Pablo Vega, director of Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport, says conditions are steadily improving. On Saturday, he announced that Colombia-based Avianca has agreed to begin flights to...
On the first anniversary of the violent protests that brought Ecuador to standstill in 2019, both the government and indigenous groups are keeping a wary eye on the streets. “Most of the problems that led to the mobilization have not been solved,” says protest leader...
