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By Jaime Moreno The Australian bushfires began in June 2019. As of January 14, 2020, fires burned 186,000 square kilometers, as a reference 65 percent of Ecuador’s area. An estimated one billion animals have been killed. Air quality has dropped to hazardous levels....
In criminal court on Thursday, Ecuador Attorney General Diana Salazar asked judges to impose the maximum prison sentence on former president Rafael Correa. During the same presentation, she asked for a 90 percent reduction in the sentence for two key players in the...
Jueves, 5/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - A photography exhibit at the Alianza Francesa (Tadeo Torres y Solano) opened tonight. French war photographer José Nicholas is showing his work from wars in Afganistán, Bosnia, Somalia,...
By Toby Ord The world is in the early stages of what may be the most deadly pandemic of the past 100 years. In China, thousands of people have already died; large outbreaks have begun in South Korea, Iran and Italy; and the rest of the world is bracing for impact. We...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) to leads all other causes of American deaths daily, at least 2,200 each day. For reasons not yet understood, women fare much worse than men do after suffering a heart...
By Hadas Gold As the coronavirus spreads further into Europe and the Americas, another infection is spreading: an epidemic of misinformation online. Dubbed the "infodemic" by health officials, the flood of posts includes conspiracy theories about the origins of the...
The World Health Organization is urging Latin American countries to develop regional plans to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. “To date, the region has far fewer known cases of the virus than other areas of the world, including North America, and a...
Miércoles, 4/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Concierto - Composer Luis Chiriboga Tamayo will present a concert with 14 short pieces for piano, violin and cello este jueves a las 20:00 in the Museo de Arte Moderno. Concierto - Two Czech...
By Ilan Berman Ask someone to name the world’s worst refugee crisis, and the most likely answer you’ll hear is “Syria.” That’s clearly correct… but only in the near term. Today, the number of refugees from Syria’s brutal nine-year civil war hovers at around 6.6...
Reading yesterday's post in CuencaHighLife in which Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch advises that 40% to 70% of the world's population will contract the coronavirus confirmed my initial suspicion. I had the sense with the early reports that the media was...
The private companies that operate Cuenca’s public bus system are angry that they were not part of the decision that set tram fares on Monday. The problem was that bus owners boycotted the municipal council meeting where the fares where established. “There was chair...
There are more Covid -19 coronavirus cases in Ecuador and the world than are being reported, possibly many more, says World Health Organization researcher Alex Holbrook. “The official numbers are only the cases that have been tested,” he said. “In Ecuador, for...
Martes, 3/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival del Sombrero de Toquilla - "La mujer y la libertad" is the name of the "Panama" hat festival este viernes, 6/3, sábado, 7/3, and domingo 8/3 in the Catedral Vieja and organized by the...
The reported coronavirus death toll now tops 3,000, with more than 90,000 cases counted worldwide. But even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in the months ahead. CBS News spoke to one of the country's top experts on viruses, Marc Lipsitch,...
By Jeremy Brown We have just commemorated the centenary of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which lasted only a few months but claimed 50 million to 100 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States. That pandemic remains a benchmark, and many...
After more than two years of false starts, Cuenca’s municipal council has finally established the fare for the city tram system. It will be 35 cents. Following the rejection of a proposal for a 30 cent fare -- to match that of city buses – the council voted 11 to six...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Health says efforts are almost complete to make Cuenca one of three centers for combating the developing Covid-19 coronavirus in Ecuador. “After Quito and Guayaquil, Cuenca will be the third headquarters for fighting the virus,” says Leopoldo...
By Helen Partz Amid a major economic downturn, countries in Latin America (LATAM) are increasingly suffering from money laundering through cryptocurrencies, a new report says. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have become a major tool of organized crime groups and hackers...
It's not true that a local hospital is treating three critically ill Covid-19 coronavirus patients. Neither is it true that large doses of vitamin C will protect you from the virus. Staff members of the Cuenca office of the national health ministry were busy answering...
By Bryan Nelson It's a question we often ponder, especially as we age: How many years do I have left? Well, there are three simple tests you can do at home or work in just a few minutes that could predict how many years you have left to live. How many pushups can you...
