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By David Morrill Give Vadim Avdeev two minutes and he can steal your cell phone number and call you from it. Give him five and he can shut down the accounts of thousands of Cuenca internet and utility customers and erase any evidence that they ever existed. With a...
I don’t remember not knowing about the Holocaust. My father, Rolf Gompertz escaped from Nazi Germany with his parents. They came to the U.S. in his eleventh year after a childhood marked by state-sanctioned violence and persecution. His parents lost everything except...
Viernes, 27/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Destinos para el fin de semana (Weekend Destinations) - San Fernando - martes, 31/12 - 17:00: show of monigotes and comparsas; 18:00: comparsas parade; 19:00: comparsas and monigotes contests;...
The Ministry of Labor announced Friday afternoon that Ecuador’s minimum wage will increase by $6 January 1, 2020. The new rate will be $400 a month. The ministry says that a larger increase is unwarranted given the annual inflation rate of less than one percent. The...
By Aja Romano For a long time now, the cross-generational dialogue between baby boomers and millennials has been built atop several recurring themes. Boomers — the generation born roughly between 1946 and 1965 — scoff that millennials expect “participation trophies”...
Mayor Pedro Palacios said Thursday that live tests of Cuenca’s Tranvía de los Cuatros Rios will begin soon and that a fare will be determined in January. Although Palacios did not specify a date when tests will begin, the director of tram operations says it will be in...
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...
