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Police said Wednesday's anti-government protests were mostly peaceful in Cuenca although small fires were set in several locations and tram service was interrupted on two occasions when demonstrators blocked the tracks. At least three protesting groups -- University...
Miércoles, 16/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Mercados buscan recuperar clients (Markets seek to recover clients) - The Municipio has started a campaign called "Tu mercado, baratito y con yapa" to reactivate the mercados. Sales fell...
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has committed systematic human rights violations including killings and torture amounting to crimes against humanity, United Nations investigators said in a report on Wednesday. Reasonable grounds existed to...
Martes, 15/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Bicentenario - Repensar a Cuenca (Rethink Cuenca) - According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Cencos, Cuenca has a population of a little over 700,000 and is continuing to extend towards...
By Michelle Higgins Two and a half hours and still no sign of llamas. We should have been winding our way through lush forests and mountain lakes instead of the never-ending banana plantations we continued to see outside our rented four-wheel drive. It was time to...
By Lianne Kolirin A collection of shrunken heads has been removed from a museum linked to Oxford University as part of what it refers to as its decolonization process. The Pitt Rivers Museum has been closed for several months due to the coronavirus pandemic. When it...
By Miriam Drake As an expat, do you need a power of attorney in Cuenca? Absolutely! Actually, I recommend you have three powers of attorney: one for healthcare and two others in which you authorize at least two friends to utilize when you are unable to care for...
Lunes, 14/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - 200 servicios digitales con IVA (200 digital services with IVA) - Starting martes, all digital services offered in the country will be subject to the 12% IVA (Impuesto al Valor Agregado)....
Claiming that they are unfairly targeted by police, hundreds of motorcyclists rolled and marched through Cuenca's historic district on Saturday. "If you are operating a motorcycle, you are 10 times more likely to be pulled over by the police than if you are in a car,"...
The chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer has warned that not enough Covid-19 vaccines will be available for everyone in the world to be inoculated until the end of 2024 at the earliest. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of...
Although government-ordered curfews and the prohibition of private gatherings are no longer in effect, many health emergency restrictions will continue to be enforced in local communities. Sunday was the final day of the state of the emergency which granted the...
The pressure continues to grow on President Lenin Moreno to veto parts or all of Ecuador’s Comprehensive Health Law approved by the National Assembly. Among those urging a veto are the Catholic church and leading presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, who object to...
Political polarization and online misinformation are threatening vaccination programs worldwide, with public trust volatile and varying widely between countries, according to a global vaccine confidence study. The study, which maps trends in vaccine confidence across...
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy Three decades after the Soviet Union fell, embers of the kind of totalitarian thinking that spawned the Communist Revolution are inflaming Western debate — and inciting Americans. Anyone born into Soviet oppression, and who resisted it,...
A group of 12,000 doctors, scientists and public health experts delivered a simple message on Thursday: get a flu shot. As flu season approaches, health experts are stressing the need to get a flu shot more than ever. “If there’s ever a year that you need to get a flu...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the government can proceed with deep budget cuts to the country’s public universities. The court had placed a temporary stop on the cuts in May, saying it needed to review constitutional language that gave...
At least eight people have been killed in protests in Colombia as outrage spreads over the death of a man who was pinned to the ground and repeatedly tasered by police in Bogotá. Video of the incident shows 46-year-old Javier Ordóñez begging the officers to stop and...
According to a statement from the Ecuador association of private internet service providers, the sector is in “extreme economic distress” due lack of payment from customers. “Some companies have seen a 50 percent drop in payments and because of government health...
Jueves, 10/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Saladentro traza agenda para que cultura siga viva (Saladentro draws up an agenda for culture to stay alive) - The Saladentro cultural center (Paseo 3 Noviembre y Bajada de Todos Santos) reopened to...
A few days ago I was flying along, headed home, returning from the mountains. Soon enough, I spotted a familiar scene in one of the many areas I frequent. The late afternoon light was favorable for the warm colors of the peoples clothing and skin. Plus, it looked...
