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A discount on Nutella has led to violent scenes in a chain of French supermarkets as shoppers jostled to grab a steep bargain on the sweet spread. Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40. But...
The attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked a London court on Friday to drop the arrest warrant that stems from his breach of bail conditions in Britain, a move that could enable him to eventually leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London if successful....
This week’s trade talks between the U.S. and Ecuador have been postponed by last weekend’s U.S. government shut-down. The U.S. Trade Office (USTR) said it will announce a new date for discussions soon. When the USTR delegation arrives in Quito, it will be their first...
Jueves, 25/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today´s agenda events - CIDAP - The "Ar-Dis: La semana del diseño para la artesanía" (Ar-Dis: The week of design for crafts) event was announced this morning and the exhibit, "CIDAP, Retorno a la esencia: Artesanía y...
By Susan Burke March According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the 2018 flu season is upon us, most virulently in North America and Australia where influenza A (H3N2) remains predominant and activity remains high. In the Caribbean and Central American countries...
Every morning you’ll find me walking on the Rio Tomebamba. I try and make my walking hour aerobic, and use my walking sticks to “pump it up,” (you wouldn’t believe the strange looks I get — I guess I’m the strange-looking one). When I return home I try and stretch for...
By Esteban Cordero Balarezo Ex-president Rafael Correa faces up to 150 law suits and more may be on the way. The cases that have been filed and processed by the Judicial Function of Ecuador (www.funcionjudicial.gob.ec) deal primarily with claims for financial losses...
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi The Rumichaca bridge, located on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, is filled with Venezuelans waiting to enter Ecuador. Recently, the line extended over 150 meters for those waiting to process their entry. Most of them carry...
Miércoles, 24/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Dialogue - Ángel Valverdo is the special guest Thurs. a las 19:30 in the Portal Artesanal (Bolívar y Huayna Cápac). The photographer will talk to attendees about their experience...
A couple of years ago, shortly after moving to Ecuador, we took an apartment on Calle Gran Colombia. It is a busy street, in the middle of El Centro, that is also the home of Cuenca’s unfinished Tranvia system’s west bound rails. Many storefronts abound in this area...
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales has vetoed the country’s ban on evangelism, which was put into law last month by the country's legislative assembly. President Evo Morales announced on Twitter that the government will repeal the penal code that criminalized evangelism...
The city of Cuenca and the Worcester Institute of Massachusetts (U.S.) are developing a program to allow non-Spanish-speaking foreigners and Ecuadorians to teach each other new languages. The program, called the Tandem Method, will also serve to expand cultural...
Martes, 23/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Taller - Meetings of Prueba_Error, Club-laboratorio started hoy and will run to el jueves from 17-20:00 in La Vitrina. The club explores artistic processes linked to technology. The...
By Michael Shifter and Ben Raderstorf South America’s biggest political surprise recently has come from one of its smallest countries, Ecuador, where President Lenin Moreno has maneuvered to break with his predecessor and a legacy tinged with authoritarianism and...
Ecuador's president has lashed out at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange even as he says his government is working behind the scenes to help him out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Lenin Moreno said in a televised interview Sunday that Assange had become "more than...
By Michel Blanchard Magy (pronounced Mah-djee) Peña is a woman on a mission. To be more precise, her mission is to recycle garbage, but not by putting it in neat blue bags for city sanitation workers to pick up. She transforms rubbish into art. She is a pioneer and a...
When I moved to my apartment 4½ years ago there was only one restaurant close by and it never caught my fancy. Now, when I'm hungry and don't want to cook, I can walk out my front door, cross the street onto the Rio Tomebamba footbridge, and voila! — there are two...
Lunes, 22/1/2018 Hola, Todos - A long day in Guayaquil so this is going to be another short issue. Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Revista - The 5th edition of "Fuera de campo," published by the Film School of UDA will be presented el jueves a...
By Susan Burke March Do you love fast food? Maybe you think that just “once in a while” indulgence in animal-fatty, salty and processed foods such as a big beef burger on a white-bread bun with deep-fried fries is your deserved payment for eating healthfully most of...
A young Irishman was killed and two others, Irish and British citizens, are missing following a kayaking accident in Ecuador's Amazon region. Alex McGourty,19, from Sligo, died in the Saturday morning accident on the rain-swollen Rio Abanico, in Morona Santiago...
