By executive decree on Tuesday, President Guillermo Lasso, repealed Ecuador’s Foreign Currency Outflow Tax for suppliers of fuel and natural gas. The assessment, commonly called the exit tax, remains at 4.75 percent for other financial transfers out of the country but is being reduced by .25...
Martes, 18/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Corresponsabilidad (Co-responsibility) <I think this concept comes more easily to a culture that still has mingas - less to someone from an Anglo-Saxon dominant culture where each individual is his own king> - At a press...
Don’t go to the library today, there are too many words already. Pick up an instrument instead. -- Rumi __________________ American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and images have appeared in National...
Ecuador will ask its citizens to vote in a 2023 consultation to reform its justice system, President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday, amid accusations that decisions by judges are holding back efforts to fight crime. Violence and crime, including within the prison system, soared in Ecuador late...
By Li Yuan China’s “zero Covid” policy has a dedicated following: the millions of people who work diligently toward that goal, no matter the human costs. In the northwestern city of Xi’an, hospital employees refused to admit a man suffering from chest pains because he lived in a medium-risk...
Lunes, 17/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From the Ellos y Ellas Sunday supplement - Hangry Hippo <I'm not sure if I should put this here or in the advertising section, but it's an article so it's here.> - A new restaurant/bar that welcomes both people and perros (dogs) has opened in...
By Michael Stott What was good for copper was good for Chile’s peso. The fortunes of the currency of the world’s largest copper exporter were closely tied to the price of its main export. Last year the pattern broke. World copper prices rose 25 per cent in 2021, but the Chilean peso’s value...
In a Sunday night emergency meeting, the Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee reduced capacity for restaurants, theaters, gyms, markets, supermarkets, financial institutions and public offices to 30 percent. The action follows a rapid rise in Covid infections, most of them from the Omicron...
Ecuador’s Oceanic Research Institute called off the tsunami warning Sunday that it had issued a day earlier, saying wave and sea level activity had returned to normal levels. The warning followed the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga-Ha’apai volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South...
By Kate Dwyer On the first Tuesday of the year, the author and political activist Don Winslow tweeted a photograph of an avid reader’s dream library. Bathed in the buttery glow of three table lamps, almost every surface of the room is covered with books. There are books on the tables, books...
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