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Miércoles, 30/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Dictan talleres gratuitos en MMAM (Free workshops at MMAM) - The Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno is again offering workshops in plastic arts and guitar for children from 7-12, teens from 13-17,...
By Nick Paton Walsh As 2020 slides into and probably infects 2021, try to take heart in one discomfiting fact: Things are most likely never going "back to normal." It has become a well-worn phrase our politicians, officials, experts, even family, like to lean on — an...
Martes, 29/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Uso de internet (Internet use) - <I can hear you thinking, "I don't need anyone to teach me how to use the internet."> The Agencia de Regulación y Control de las Telecomunicaciones...
Latam airline said Tuesday that it is restoring air service from Santiago, Chile to Guayaquil, Bogotá, São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. The airline also said it is resuming flights between Ecuador, Peru and Colombia as well as in-country flights in Peru and...
By Christina Farr For seven years, Dr. Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at The University of California, San Francisco, has experimented with intermittent fasting. The health fad, which restricts eating to specific periods of time, hit the mainstream after a series of...
Ecuador will allow private companies to import and sell some fuels for industrial and commercial use, ending a monopoly state-owned Petroecuador had in the sector, the energy ministry said on Friday. The move is one of a series of free-market reforms implemented in...
Lunes, 28/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Un campeonato mundial dedicado para un "angel" (A dedicated world championship for an "angel") - Cuencano dancer José Antonio Romero won the Campeonato Mundial Virtual de Baile (Virtual World...
By Daniel Martínez Garbuno Ecuatoriana de Aviación is a former airline that ceased operations in 2006, but now it is trying to revive under the brand Ecuatoriana Airlines and launch its operations in the first quarter of 2021. Little has been published on the subject,...
If you are learning either Spanish or English as a second language, you have probably had the experience of “I am reading and writing it pretty well now, and my speech is even coming along, but when an Ecuadorian – or North American – starts talking to me at their...
By James Atwood, Valentine Fuentes & Jonathan Gilbert He couldn't support his family. Matilde Alonso knew it was true but couldn't believe it. The pandemic had just hit Guatemala with full force and Alonso, a 34-year-old construction worker, was suddenly...
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 volverán a recibir visitantes (The Ingapirca Complex will again receive visitors) - This coming sábado, 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...
