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Jueves, 26/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Collective show - 14 artists from El Puente Roto are having a show in the Quinta Bolívar in Gapal. Map of cultural attractions - The El Vado Committee has published a map of attractions in the area...
Susan's note: This is the third in a multi-part series on fats — In Part I I wrote about trans fats, or hydrogenated fats, and how they transformed the processed foods industry — and how increased consumption of trans fat was linked to the rise in the incidence of...
A Court of Justice judge in Quito has ordered that Pichincha Prefect Paola Pabón be released from preventive detention while she awaits trial on charges of rebellion stemming from the October protests. In her Tuesday ruling, Judge Patlova Guerra said that the...
By Lara Merling Over the past year, a rebranded International Monetary Fund (IMF) has returned to Latin America with promises of loan agreements that would be different than the dreaded “structural adjustment program” of the past. Behind statements about inclusive...
Following a recent visit to Ecuador, independent United Nations human rights experts concluded that the government should step up efforts to enforce the law and implement plans to end racial discrimination suffered by Afro-Ecuadorians and people of African descent....
Cuenca's big Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade lived up to expectations Tuesday with an estimated 130,000 participants and onlookers gathering for the nine-hour march down Calle Simon Bolivar. As usual, children were the highlight of the day. Katy Miller, one of the...
By Rob Bell There are at least two things about Ecuador that I, as a U.S. expat, have difficulty understanding and getting used to. It seems to me that Ecuadorians are extremely fatalistic about what they expect from their elected government officials, and from their...
Martes, 24/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cine - "Jumanji, el siguiente nivel" will open mañana in Ecuadorian theaters. Otras cosas - Titular - Pase del Niño es el símbolo de Navidad (Pase del Niño is the Christmas symbol) - Last night,...
Susan's note: As reported in the journal Endocrine Reviews, the treatment of obesity continues to be a major challenge. Obesity is now pandemic in the United States as well as in other nations. In the United States, it is now more common to be overweight than not;...
By David Morrill Louis Bougeois is up early each day and by sunrise he’s usually busy with projects in the quebrada just below his house. He clears underbrush from the banks of the creek that runs through the quebrada, builds benches, stairs and walkways, cuts and...
By Sylvan Hardy Easily the biggest public event of the year in Cuenca, today’s Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade, or Passing of the Child, is a colorful mixture of the sacred and the profane. To locals, it is a time-honored Christian festival of homage to the Christ...
Lunes, 23/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Women in art and entrepreneurship - "Mujeres por un arte sin frontera" (Women for an art without borders) will be este sábado, 28/12 in the Centro Cultural "El Prohibido" (La Condamine pedestrian...
Text and photos by Robert Bradley The feast of Kapak Raymi was celebrated in the Plaza Civica, adjacent the Mercado 9 de Octumbre, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Three days of dance, crafts, and good food made for a jam-packed celebration that continues a tradition...
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who don’t use these products. The study published online Dec. 4 in the International...
Ecuador declared a state of emergency Sunday when a barge loaded with 600 gallons of diesel fuel capsized at a dock in the Galapagos Islands. The spill occurred when a crane collapsed onto the barge at a port on San Cristobal Island. On Monday morning, Ecuador's...
Ecuador’s Energy Ministry has reversed course and decided to maintain the electricity subsidy for owners of induction cooking ranges. A year ago, the ministry said it would discontinue the subsidy which was instituted by the government of former president Rafael...
Beer and foreign-based internet services are among the products that will see a tax increase or be taxed for the first time beginning in 2020. Most new taxes take effect January 1 but others will apply beginning in February and March. The excise tax on beer will...
A group of religious sisters in Santo Domingo has installed Ecuador’s first baby drop-off box, as an alternative to abortion for mothers who find themselves unable to care for their newborns. The Missionary Benedictine inaugurated the country’s first “Cradle of Life”...
By Joe Emersberger Organization of American States (OAS) election monitors published a “final report” on December 4 on Bolivia’s October 20 presidential election, won by President Evo Morales — 22 days later than promised. The tardy release of the final report...
On December 5, the first of a series of Canelazo Stories -- an evening of storytelling -- was held at La Guarida. It sold out within a few hours of being announced, which came as no surprise to me. Old-fashion storytelling, the kind that is done person-to-person and...
