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Miércoles, 23/3/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – Tambalea la Ley de Inversiones (Investment Law falters) – The Izquierda Democrática (ID), UNES (Correismo), & Pachakutic have made their position clear – they will not give their almost 90 votes to pass the Ley de Inversiones as proposed by the Government. The ley will probably...
By Amit Malwar Previous research has suggested that all elementary particles store information about themselves, like the way humans have DNA. In a new paper from the University of Portsmouth, scientists propose an experimental protocol that allows for empirical verification of these theories. This new experiment could confirm the fifth form of matter and change...
By Hillary Hoftower In a small city in South Florida called Sunny Isles Beach, luxury condos tower over the Atlantic Ocean. But high above the busy streets, not all of the city’s multi-million dollar apartments light up at night. “These condos are owned and never used and always dark,” said Daniel Gielchinsky, attorney at DGIM Law,...
Claiming that the government is underfunding social benefits, reducing the rights of workers, and selling off public assets, the unions of the United Workers Front plan protests today in major cities. “The workers of Ecuador are being abused and the unemployed have been forgotten while our heritage is being sold off to the highest bidder,”...
Martes, 22/3/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – El origin de la vida (The origin of life) – This issue of El Mercurio is about water on World Water Day. Special – El futuro del agua en manos de los niños (The future of water in the hands of children) – Before 20 years...
By Chris Hedges The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalismwith freedom. In the name of national security, the...
National Assembly members expressed confusion and anger following last week’s partial veto by President Guillermo Lasso of an abortion law that legalizes abortion in cases of rape. “Our challenge is to reconcile the president’s personal religious beliefs with the order of the Constitutional Court regarding the rights of rape victims,” says Alejandro Jaramillo, whose Justice...
By Stephen Vargha “¡Fantástico!” That is how Maestro Augusto Carrión Rodas described his first year with the Cuenca Symphony Orchestra. The maestro was installed as the leader on February 18, 2021. Since that time, he has been busy transforming the group of musicians into his vision. “The first year has been working as a team....
Lunes, 21/3/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – Escépticos ante aforos al 100% (Skeptical about 100% capacity) – Doctors in the country are skeptical about the Government’s decision to return to 100% capacity for different indoor activities. Last week Pres. Lasso said that the country is ready for a new leap into the future,...
By Suzanne Bearne Seventeen-year-old Robin West is an anomaly among her peers – she doesn’t have a smartphone. Instead of scrolling through apps like TikTok and Instagram all day, she uses a so-called “dumbphone”. These are basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. You can typically only make...
According to a recent survey, most Latin Americans don’t trust their governments and a growing percentage say they don’t trust the democratic process and democratic institutions either. The Santiago, Chile-based research organization Latinobarómetro reports that 70% of Latin Americans say they are dissatisfied with their governments, a mark well above that of 2017 (58%). Only...
According to Cuenca Councilman Diego Morales, it’s time to establish rules for a variety of the small electric vehicles proliferating on city streets and sidewalks. “The number of these motorized conveyances has exploded in the past few years and they are endangering the safety of pedestrians and motorists as well as the riders themselves,” he...
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