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Just a few scant miles west of Cuenca lies a small and quaint paroquia named San Joaquin. Edie and I have been fortunate to call this area our home for a couple of years. It’s where we moved after our exodus from a life in El Centro where we lived high in the sky,...
Drug advertisements. Ugh. By the time they finish listing the side effects, you wonder why they even bother publicizing them? Have you noticed that almost every advertisement on the U.S. news show '60 Minutes' is for some pharmaceutical drug, or more recently, for a...
President Lenín Moreno declared a national health emergency Wednesday night, saying the action was in response to the elevation of the coronavirus to pandemic status by the World Health Organization (WHO). The declaration gives the government extra authority to take...
Peru delayed the start of its school year, imposed quarantines on travelers and limited the size of public gatherings in some of the most drastic measures yet taken by a Latin American nation to try to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. The start of classes...
Miércoles, 11/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - "El Tejido" - "The Tissue" or "The Weaving" is a new cultural space at calle Baltazara de Calderón 2-19 y Miguel Vélez and is part of the San Sebastián cultural circuit. In addition to presenting...
Acknowledging that Ecuador has been hard-hit by the dramatic drop in oil prices and the coronavirus, President Lenin Moreno is proposing a combination of budget cuts and new taxes to shore up government finances. "The country is in a delicate economic situation today...
Miércoles, 10/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Muestra - "La otredad del espacio" (The otherness of space) was opened at the Casa de Chaguarchimbana, and is a show of works by the students from the Eugenio Espejo school. Otras cosas - Titular...
Michael Osterholm, the infectious disease expert who has been warning for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic, says the U.S. and most of the rest of world is ill-prepared to combat the coronavirus due to a shortage of equipment and supplies....
After reading Brenda Langdon’s excellent article about the Covid-19 virus and sensible precautions everyone can take to stay healthy I’d like to repost my column about food safety. One of the best reasons for living in Cuenca is the variety of vegetables and fruits,...
"The people are telling us that many of the public spaces in Cuenca are drab and gray and need some greenery,” says Dora Ordóñez, director of the Municipal Cleaning Company of Cuenca (EMAC). “Our answer is, 'we hear you,' and are planning a landscaping program to...
Ecuador poses one of South America’s highest financial risks for foreign investors, according to the JP Morgan international risk index. Ecuador has a rating of 2,793 compared to 2,783 for Argentina. Ecuador’s risk skyrocketed 811 points over the weekend as...
Lunes, 9/2/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cooperativa Artesanal - A group of artisans that has been exhibiting their work in the Galerías de Oficios in the CCE are moving into a new space on Pres. Córdova y Luis Cordero starting el 12 de...
Credit: NIAAA: Understanding the impact of alcohol on human health and well-being For many people, a night of drinking can lead to a painful morning after and the dreaded effects of a hangover. What does science tell us about this phenomenon? What causes the typical...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Health reported the country’s 15th case of the coronavirus on Sunday. The ministry said that the 41-year-old woman who tested positive was related to the country’s first case, a woman who arrived in Ecuador from Spain on February 14. The ministry...
By Brenda Langdon A friend asked me last week what measures one can take to lower exposure and prepare for coronavirus. It appears likely to me that we are in the early stages of a pandemic, and there are many variables at play. There is actually very little...
Examine the word responsibility -- response-ability -- the ability to choose your response. Proactive people realize their responsibility; they do not blame circumstance, conditions, and surely not others, as a reason not to be responsible. Our behavior is a product...
By Isaac Chotiner In his new book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale University, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed...
Although the regional director of the Ministry of Health says there are no cases of coronavirus cases in Cuenca, local physicians are less optimistic. Announcing another negative test result on Friday, David Ordonez, Zone 6 Ministry of Health director, said he felt...
Cuenca city government says that almost all the damage caused during the October 2019 protests has been repaired. On Wednesday, repairs were finished in two areas of San Francisco square where rocks had been removed by protesters. On Thursday, city workers finished...
Viernes, 6/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Roto Fest finals - 8 alternative rock bands will play in a concert este sábado a las 15:00 in the Casa del Artista (av. Loja next to the Yanuncay bridge) to select which 4 will be in the Roto Fest...
