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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...
Jueves, 1/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Crédito para pagar deudas (Credit to pay debts) - See Wednesday's CHL story for the IMF loan to the country. Unificación de tarjetas Movilízate no será completa (Unification of Movilízate...
A 32-year-old man died shortly before noon Thursday when his motorcycle collided with a tram unit at the intersection of Mariscal Lamar and Juan Montalvo in the historic district. After reviewing tranvía and ECU-911 video of the accident, police said that the victim...
President Lenín Moreno said Wednesday he would meet with cabinet ministers to determine how to disburse a $2 billion payment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is expected on Friday. “We have many critical needs and will prioritize these in our meetings,”...
Employees of Quito’s JW Marriott Hotel were denied entry to hotel facilities Wednesday following the announcement that the hotel would be not reopen for at least six months. Those attempting to enter the building say they have unanswered questions about their...
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...
