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By Barbara Espinosa In 2015, the inhabitants of Ecuador’s Valley of the Volcanoes, south of Quito, were awakened by a thunderous explosion. A radio announcement explained what was happening and gave them a decisive order: "Lahars are coming down from Cotopaxi; they...
Four fires that ignited late Tuesday spread rapidly on Wednesday, sending thick smoke over much of Quito. The mayor’s office issued a warning to city residents Wednesday afternoon, advising them to stay indoors due to deteriorating air quality, warning of eye and...
Miércoles, 4/9/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Muestra pictória - The exhibition "Paisajes del verde al metal" (Landscapes from green to metal) by artist Diana Márquez is showing until el 7/9 in the Salón del Pueblo "Efraín Jara Idrovo" (Sucre y Benigno Malo). Free....
Protests by truckers in Colombia, who are angry at an increase in diesel prices, have cut off the country's biggest cities and are threatening fuel supplies, though the government insists the hike is fair. The truckers' strike and roadblocks, combined with attacks on...
Although the national Risk Management office says the forest fires in Loja and Azuay Provinces are “substantially contained,” large areas continue to burn. The largest fire, near Quilanga in Loja Province, has consumed more than 7,600 hectares of forest and farmland,...
By Jan Hoffman The message emblazoned on a walkway window at the airport in Burlington, Vermont, is a startling departure from the usual tourism posters and welcome banners: “Addiction is not a choice. It’s a disease that can happen to anyone.” The statement, part of...
By Lorena Baires The Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Power Plant, built by the Chinese company SinoHydro and described as the largest engineering project in Ecuador’s history, is in danger of collapse. A series of structural defects, the accumulation of sediments due...
The vice president of the National Electoral Council Enrique Pita said Monday that President Daniel Noboa must resign to run for reelection. "The president or any other elected official must temporarily resign if they register to run again for office," Pita said in an...
Monday, 5/8/2024 Hello, Everyone - Activities- Symphonies make duet - An orchestral trip through Guayas and Cuenca will happen on Friday, 6/9 in the concert, "Symphony of two cities <directed by Maestro Charles Dickens>) The Youth Symphonic Orchestra of...
By Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the highly anticipated July election that both the...
Water rationing will begin within a matter of days, possibly this week, Cuenca Mayor Cristián Zamora said Monday. "The outage periods will be from six to eight hours a day," he said. "These could be extended, depending on conditions at our reservoirs.” At a morning...
While forest fires continue to burn in Azuay, Loja and Cotopaxi Provinces, firefighters are slowly gaining control thanks to air support, the country’s Risk Management Office reports. “We are making progress in containing the Quilanga and San Fernando fires but we...
By Caity Weaver I have good news and I have bad news. Actually, I have crazy news and I have bad news. Actually, all the news I have is bad, but some of it is also crazy. Before you become totally freaked out, all the news I’m describing here is about pennies; it’s...
By Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app after the company refused to comply with a judge’s order. X missed a...
President Daniel Noboa Friday extended for another 30 days the state of emergency in six provinces and one canton given the high level of criminal violence. Noboa's decree extended the measure he ordered July 2 in Los Rios, Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabi, and El Oro, as...
Only one political alliance was announced Friday, the last day parties could form partnerships ahead of the February 2025 election. The alliance between Citizens' Revolution (RC) and Total Renewal (RETO) reduced the number of presidential candidates from 17 to 16. RC...
Viernes, 30/8/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del jueves, 29/8 (1 article): Nulti tiene listo un festival dominical (Nulti is ready for a Sunday festival) - The El Tablón community in Nulti Parish is organizing the fifth cuy festival el domingo, 1/9...
By Christopher Newton With access to artificial intelligence increasing rapidly, some of Latin America’s organized crime groups have begun wielding it for criminal gain. Though artificial intelligence (AI) has long been of interest in the worlds of science and science...
By Roger Ebberly “This could change everything about what we think about the first human inhabitants of South and North America,” says Jorge Levy, an anthropologist at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales. “It means that we will need to develop new theories and will...
Large wildfires burned out of control Thursday night in San Fernando, Nabón, Susudel and Oña. The fires in Azuay Province, which have consumed hundreds of hectares, were located in mountainous terrain difficult to reach by firefighters, according to the Cuenca Risk...
