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Ecuador has the highest Covid-19 fatality rate in South America and ranks near the bottom among the region’s countries in testing. According to two Cuenca-based researchers, these facts should set off alarm bells about the government’s response to the pandemic....
International travelers arriving by air who present a negative Covid-19 RT-PCR test result will no longer be required to quarantine, the National Emergency Operations Committee decided Friday night. The new rule is one of several protocol changes for international...
By Emma Reynolds Susan Bailey, a 57-year-old retired nurse from Florida, has had all her jabs and gets a flu shot every year. She's a vocal Joe Biden supporter -- and one of a growing number of people globally who say they wouldn't take a coronavirus vaccine even if...
By Miriam Drake Several years ago I was invited to write an article for an anthology of stories written by expats living in various locales throughout the world. Here is what I chose to write about my experiences with my friend Benito Ramon. “Here I am in Cuenca...
President Lenín Moreno announced Friday night that he is extending the health emergency for an additional 30 days. According to his personal secretary, the president delayed the decision as he considered but finally rejected other options that would have relaxed...
Pizza. It is ubiquitous. If you want one, you pick up the phone, call your favorite pizza joint and voila, it shows up on your doorstep shortly thereafter. It is so easy to order and so widely available that most people don’t even give it a second thought. But, there...
I look at Facebook daily and it is distressing to continually see the labels socialist, radical and now “Marxist” used as epithets, thrown at any idea or activity that does not have its imprimatur from the right. Not a word of discussion about the idea itself. I am...
Former Ecuadorian Сonsul in London Fidel Narvaez said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition case that the whistleblower will not get a fair trial either in the UK or in the United States. "There is plenty of evidence showing that Assange is a victim of...
Several health researchers are disputing the claim by Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos that the coronavirus pandemic is under control. Daniel Simancas, research director at the Center for Public Health and Epidemiology Research at Universidad Tecnológica...
By Zamira Rahim Boris Johnson's latest strategy to fight coronavirus aims to make Britain healthier -- but campaigners are worried about the impact the policy will have on people living with eating disorders. Johnson's government launched its Better Health strategy in...
Jueves, 13/8/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - School - School will start el 1/9 with classes continuing on line. Teaching will be done on radio, TV, on-line, and students without internet will receive printed material. Parents will not need to...
Ecuador expects a quick resolution to a trade dispute with China over traces of coronavirus in a container of exported shrimp that led Beijing to suspend imports from three companies, Ecuador’s production and trade minister said on Tuesday. Chinese officials last...
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Russian scientists achieved a breakthrough in the global vaccine race, announcing that the country has become the first to approve an experimental coronavirus vaccine and that his own daughter has already taken a...
The additional Covid-19 health emergency restrictions ordered July 29 by the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) expired Wednesday but it’s unclear if they will be reinstated or if new rules will be applied. For cantons under yellow light conditions,...
Miércoles, 12/8/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Ingapirca - A project of the US Embassy would preserve and fix deterioration at the site with $198,000 to be paid out over 2 years. <My Spanish isn't good enough to tell if this is a grant or...
I had seen her around El Centro a few times. It was usually east of Calle Hermano Miguel and north of Calle Simon Bolivar. She looked pretty beat down. I kept thinking about her, worrying about her well being, wondering about her life here in Cuenca. Sometimes I...
Ecuador's ex-president Abdala Bucaram was arrested on Wednesday for the second time in just over two months, the public prosecutor said, this time accused of links to organized crime. Bucaram was also briefly detained on June 3 as part of a corruption investigation...
Martes, 11/8/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Preocupación en personal de salud (Concern in health personnel) - Medical personnel are worried about a new outbreak of Covid resulting from carelessness during the días de asueto (holidays -...
By John Keeble Ah, the Atlantic hurricane season has kicked off with promises of record violence – a timely reminder that the planet is still crashing out of control regardless of our very understandable focuses on the pandemic and Black Lives Matter. Or, put another...
International banks who claim to be committed to backing action on climate change face allegations of double standards from indigenous groups in Ecuador after a report named them as major players in the trade in oil from the Amazon rainforest. Stand.earth and Amazon...
Week of October 25
Ecuador heads into a four-day November holiday built around Cuenca’s Independence Day.
El Niño’s early rains have already affected more than 30,000 people across Ecuador.
Exporters press Constitutional Court to move three major trade agreements forward
