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France’s Institute for Research and Development (IRD) has made it official: Ecuador's Chimborazo mountain is the highest point on earth. Although it has long been known that the top of Chimborazo was the furthest point from the center of the earth, estimates varied as...
--Sponsored post-- Mexico City is notorious for its air pollution. But you have to weigh the pros and cons of any city, including this one. When many people think of Mexico City, they think of traffic congestion and air pollution. That’s an unfortunate image...
By Dan Diamond, Lena H. Sun and Isaac Stanley-Becker The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as “vaccine passports” — that would allow Americans to prove they have been vaccinated...
By Marisa Cohen Turning the calendar page to a new year is often a signal that it’s time for a fresh start—and that has never felt more weicome than in 2021. After nearly a year spent staying home, stressing out, and comfort-bingeing baked goods and Netflix, many of...
Lunes, 29/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Semana Santa, tiempo para fortalecer la fe y la esperanza (Easter, a time to strengthen faith and hope) - Holy Week started with the celebration of Palm Sunday under Covid restrictions. In...
By John Lockett Some British expats are "deliberately" ignoring strict rules to leave Spain despite new laws meaning those who decide to live "under the radar" could face deportation or fines. They have been accused of "burying their heads in the sand" even though the...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the Covid-19 virus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would work. The crisis-stricken OPEC nation's crude exports have plummeted to their lowest levels in...
Ecuador’s Health Ministry has spent the past week “working tirelessly” to develop an immunization plan, according to President Lenin Moreno. “We thought we had a plan under the former ministry administration but discovered there was not one,” the president said...
Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN Friday he believes the virus that causes COVID-19 was accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan, China. “Based on my experience as a virologist, I do not believe the virus...
I don’t recall writing a business story that didn’t include coffee or food and this one is no different. This time the tale takes an unexpected turn to detail how a couple succeeded in replenishing a portion of a diminishing well that is essential to us all. All...
The city of Cuenca has agreed to make emergency repairs to Iglesia Santo Domingo, formally known as the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, on General Torres at Gran Colombia in Cuenca's historic district. The Catholic Dominican order, which is responsible for the...
By Doug Palmer With just a short time left in office, Ecuadorian Trade Minister Iván Ontaneda hopes to put his country and the United States on a path toward a free trade agreement. In an interview with Morning Trade, Ontaneda said a deal would help put Ecuador on a...
By Leah Croll Proof of vaccination against Covid-19 may soon allow us to begin resuming our normal activities in the near future. Photos that display the vaccination card like a badge of honor have been making the rounds on social media for months, but the card is...
President Lenin Moreno was not involved in the decision to vaccinate top government officials against the Covid-19 virus, presidential secretary Jorge Wated said Thursday. “No such order came from the president’s office and he was not aware of actions taken in the...
By Andreas Kluth For the past year, an assumption — sometimes explicit, often tacit — has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then we’ll go “back to normal.” This premise is almost certainly wrong. SARS-CoV-2,...
By David Leonhardt Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or...
At least 15 buildings in Cuenca’s historic district, some publicly and church owned, report extensive water damage due to an intense hailstorm on Monday. The storm deposited as much as a foot of ice in some areas, clogging drains and sewers. In at least three cases,...
The first time I ever “brushed up against” Ecuador was before I had ever conceived of living here. The experience was one of happenstance. It ignited an interest, an itch, that was satisfied in Edie and I moving to the southern hemisphere. Let me tell you how it...
By Julia Buckley Tourists sprawled over sidewalks, garbage piled up in the streets, and thousands-strong lines to enter museums. Overtourism feels a long time ago now, but the after effects are still being felt in Italian cities, where locals have been squeezed out by...
Ecuador's National Ombudsman, Freddy Carrión, has requested that he and his family be temporarily entered into the country’s witness protection program due to death threats he has received following his demand that President Lenín Moreno, former Minister María Paula...
