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The National Court of Justice on Monday dismissed an appeal of former president Rafael Correa’s conviction in the so-called Sobornos [Bribes] 2012-2016 case. Correa’s defense team is expected to file a final appeal before he is ordered to begin an eight-year prison...
Within a matter of days, it appears that Quito will pass Guayaquil in total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. On Monday, Quito registered 10,599 cases while the Guayaquil total stood at 11,640. From the end of April to July 20, Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos...
Lunes, 20/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - From el periodico del sábado - Drive in theater - The parking lot of the Hotel Oro Verde will become a drive in theater el próximo 31/7. The hotel joined with a company that provided technical...
The commercial operation of the Cuenca tramway begins next week without a payment system that integrates it with the city's bus system. Officials say the lack of a unified system is the result of a disagreement between bus owners and the city about how to collect...
Ecuador's National Assembly has named María Alejandra Muñoz to replace Otto Sonnenholzner as vice president. Sonnenholzner resigned two weeks ago and is considering running for president in the February 2021 election. In the Assembly vote, Muñoz beat out interior...
By Miriam Drake When you are not feeling well and need medical attention in Ecuador, it’s probably not the best time to learn how to use IESS or the private healthcare systems here. There are good doctors in the IESS system, but you need to know who they are and how...
By David Neald A massive new study has found evidence that blood iron levels could play a role in influencing how long you live. It's always important to take longevity studies with a big grain of salt, but the new research is impressive in its breadth, covering...
The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee voted to keep the city under yellow light restrictions as several members lashed out at the federal government for not allowing a tightening of the rules to combat an increase of Covid-19 cases. "We will push our case more...
By Dan Sewell Millennials, you’re taking a big hit — again. And you’re not OK, either, boomers. Sometimes at odds, America’s two largest generations now have something to agree on: The coronavirus pandemic has smacked many of them at a pivotal time in their lives. For...
By John Keeble A British city that traded 500,000 slaves during the 17th and 18th centuries has been catapulted into the Black Lives Matter forefront by the toppling of a slaver's statue and its replacement in a dawn protest raid with a resin-and-steel figure of a...
By Marianne Brooker The Constitutional Court of Ecuador, the highest court in the land, has announced it will take on the case of the threatened Los Cedros Protected Forest by using the Rights of Nature enshrined in the constitution. The Constitutional Court chose to...
Jueves, 16/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Making bricks out of plastic - For 2 years, a group of students and their professor at the Universidad Católica de Cuenca have been working on a project to convert plastic bottles into bricks. First...
By Alice Chaummers Is this weird or what? The pandemia thing, I mean. What’s so lousy about it is that it’s gone on for so long and there’s no end in sight. We’re used to disasters, natural and man-made, that have some sort of sequence -- like a beginning, a middle...
By Saurabh Jha The Covid-19 pandemic has been a testing time for the already testy academic discourse. Decisions have had to be made with partial information. Information has come in drizzles, showers and downpours. The velocity with which new information has arrived...
Following the government’s decision Thursday morning denying Cuenca’s request to extend the nightly curfew and restrict alcohol sales and the size of public gatherings, Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios and Azuay Province Governor Xavier Martinez said the city may return to...
City and health officials in Cuenca and Quito blasted the national government on Wednesday for not allowing an extended nighttime curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol. “We have been waiting for almost two weeks for the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE)...
Miércoles, 15/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cultural spaces slowly reopening - At first, the Ministerio de Cultura published a guide for people in cultural activities to work in spaces without the public. Later a protocol for reopening...
Emerging evidence that the body's immune defense against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even harder for vaccine developers to come up with shots fully able to protect people in future waves of infection, scientists said on Tuesday. Preliminary studies in China,...
Eggs are a dietary staple in Ecuador. They provide a simple, nourishing, inexpensive, tasty morsel all in its own neat little package, albeit fragile. And, conveniently, they are found everywhere. Edie’s favorite, as well as mine, is the quail egg. Their cream colored...
Peru reopened domestic air travel on Wednesday in a bid to reignite the economy as it announced a drop of 33 percent in GDP for May year-on-year. Long queues of passengers formed from dawn at the Jorge Chavez airport in the capital Lima with 17 domestic flights...
