By Astrid Suarez Every day, at least 500 migrants from around the world sail out of Necocli, a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, across the Gulf of Uraba to the village of Acandi, to start a week-long trek through the jungle that takes them into Panama — the next stop on the long road to...
Unions representing small rice and banana producers in Guayas, El Oro and Los Rios provinces plan to join today’s anti-government protests, their leaders say. The growers, who blocked highways north of Guayaquil last week, say they will take to the roads again, warning motorists in the area to use...
Martes, 14/9/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Presentación de obra (Presentation of work) - The Casa de la Cultura will present a book titled "La novela histórica del Ecuador contemporáneo" by Gloria Riera Rodríguez on 16/9 a las 16:00 in the Salon del Pueblo (Sucre y Benigno Malo). Concierto de...
By Kelli María Korducki A new season is here and, with it, seedlings of holiday escape plans to some sun-drenched beach or snowy mountain ski slope. In view of passenger data from the US and the UK, air travel is on its way toward recovering from the slump of a pre-vaccine Covid-19 pandemic –...
By John Naughton One of the challenges of writing about technology is how to escape from what the sociologist Michael Mann memorably called “the sociology of the last five minutes”. This is especially difficult when covering the digital tech industry because one is continually deluged with ‘new’...
At least three bombs dropped from drones exploded at the Guayaquil Regional Prison jail early Monday morning, one of them causing extensive damage to the facility’s roof. According to police, the bombs were intended for leaders of the Los Choneros crime gang which is associated with the Mexican...
Lunes, 13/89/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - A vacunarse los de 12 a 15 años (12 to 15 year olds to get vaccinated) - After 100 days of intense work, vaccination centers closed ayer and vaccines will be given to those still lacking their 1st and/or 2nd doses at the 1,900 health...
By Jan Dynes Books were the stepping stones of my life. They became each decade’s touch stones and they formed me. My choices were an education that allowed me to become and embrace being everything from a reigning queen to being a slave, angry militant, migrant farmer, Indian, rancher, geisha or...
By Michael Stott While policymakers at the U.S. Federal Reserve conduct a drawn-out discussion over the pros and cons of starting to withdraw their multitrillion dollar pandemic stimulus, south of the border the debate is already over. Inflation is back with a vengeance and Latin American central...
President Guillermo Lasso said he will announce a plan this week to offer residency to the estimated 450,000 Venezuelans living in Ecuador. “The plan is to integrate the migrants into Ecuadorian society through work, educational and other opportunities,” he said. “They have suffered tremendously...
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