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As many as a thousand Venezuelan children enrolled in Cuenca public schools struggle to keep up in online classes due to a lack of computers and internet access. “Many of the children are using cell phones to log into their sessions and this puts them at an extreme...
By Chris Matyszczyk There’s definitely a new normal but it’s not necessarily improved. Covid-19 has utterly altered many of the things we used to take for granted. My wife and I used to enjoy the occasional escape. By changing locations, the hope was that we could...
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill Sitting squeezed between a number of strangers on board an aircraft might feel like a risky position during these uncertain times. But according to some experts who point to the very few documented cases of in-flight transmission, the chances...
By Robert Bradley There are some who refer to Garry Vacher, founder, and director of Hogar de Esperanza, as a curmudgeon, or just a plain old sourpuss. His scrappiness is well known, his phenomenal contribution to the community less so. Numerous location changes have...
Police believe that the deaths of two North Americans found Friday night in their northside Cuenca apartment was probably the result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Police say the couple, along with their dog, appear to have been dead for about five days. Police were...
Latin American leaders have appealed at the United Nations for free access to a future Covid-19 vaccine, urging major powers to share their know-how for the sake of global well-being. Latin America has taken a heavy blow from Covid-19 with nearly nine million cases...
Jueves, 24/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - En el Complejo de Ingapirca volverĂ¡n a recibir visitantes (The Ingapirca Complex will again receive visitors) - This coming sĂ¡bado, Ingapirca will reopen with hours of 9:30-15:00 from viernes a...
By Sandee LaMotte The proof is piling up: Many synthetic chemicals can harm your health and that of your children. Evidence has doubled in the last five years about the negative impact on our health of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastics, pesticides, flame...
Within a few scant weeks of setting my feet on Ecuadorian soil, the adventures of exploring the countryside were underway. There are many rocky paths in Ecuador that might be mistaken for roads. I seek these out as you never know what you may see in these out of the...
Miércoles, 23/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Consulta minera causa polémica (Mining referendum causes controversy) - According to the Comité Empresarial Ecuatoriano, a business group, the resolution from the Corte Constitucional which...
By Jancee Dunn Dave Asprey, founder of the supplement company Bulletproof and one of the many Silicon Valley tech titans obsessed with lengthening their life spans, famously declared he wants to live beyond 180 years. That sounds, frankly, exhausting. Yet who wouldn’t...
Bolivia’s conservative interim president, Jeanine Anez, pulled out of next month’s general election on Tuesday, a move that should strengthen other candidates running against the front-running socialist party of ex-leader Evo Morales. Political analysts say the move...
Global airlines on Tuesday called for pre-departure Covid-19 testing for all international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump. Rapid and affordable antigen tests that can be administered by non-medical staff are expected...
The leading leftists presidential tickets are in danger of being booted from the February national election ballot, legal experts say. Both the UniĂ³n por la Esperanza (Unes), supported by former President Rafael Correa, and the Pachakutik indigenous party violated...
Martes, 22/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Aumentan contagios (Infections increase) - During the past semana, Cuenca exceeded the hurdle of 800 new infections in 7 days which was last exceeded at the end of agosto. The increase...
Ecuador's navy said on Tuesday that Chinese fishing vessels have gradually left the area near the Galapagos Islands and are now operating in international waters off Peru, following months of fishing that spurred criticism from environmental groups. More than 300...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has given Cuenca the green light to hold a public referendum that could ban large and medium-scale mining activity near water sources. The Monday decision was denounced by the country's Chamber of Mining, which claims a local ban would...
As small amounts of ash from the eruption of the Sangay volcano continued to fall, municipal workers in Guamote, AlausĂ, Chunchi, Guayaquil and Portoviejo were busy Monday afternoon sweeping streets and cleaning parks. In rural areas of four provinces, farmers were...
By Duncan Tucker Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, authorities in Venezuela, El Salvador and Paraguay have held tens of thousands of people in inadequate state-run quarantine centres without sufficient safeguards against human rights violations, in...
By Sylvan Hardy Construction has resumed on the Casa del Huerto residential project in Cuenca’s historic district and Juan Heredia wants to spread the word. “With all the disruption and uncertainty with the coronavirus, we need to let people know that we are back at...
