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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...
I arrived at Plazoleta Cruz Del Vado on a late afternoon last week in time to watch a flock of clouds winging west towards the sea; the evening sun pulling the blanket of sleep over the mountains. A few lights, some winking behind swaying trees, snuggled on the...
By Liz Rowlinson Last month Tara and her family moved into a new home in rural Dorset after 12 years as expats in Singapore. Her banker husband had got a job back in the UK and within six weeks she “moved mountains” to extricate themselves from one life and create...
Although new Covid infections have reached a three-month low, Cuenca hospitals say they are running out of beds. According to the top administrator ta the Vicente Corral Moscoso public hospital, the number of patients with other diseases and victims of accidents has...
“You can’t lock down everybody,” the chief of the Madrid region said on Thursday, pushing back against the Spanish government’s plan to confine the capital city to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases. The health ministry said late on Wednesday that the central government...
By Vijay Prashad and Pilar Troya A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz — who was the minister of...
Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy The Covid-19 virus has changed lives around the world. Besides infecting 35 million...
