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As more bodies were recovered Tuesday afternoon and the death toll rose to 23, government officials are blaming uncontrolled development for Monday’s flooding in Quito’s La Gasca neighborhood. “This didn’t need to happen if the city planning office had done its job over the years,” said Cristopher Velasco, president of the Ecuadorian Association of Risk...
Martes, 1/2/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – La TRI quiere tomarse LIma (La TRI wants to take Lima) – Ecuador and Peru tied 1 – 1 and Ecuador gained another point in its bid to make the World Cup competition in Qatar. Cuenca – “Hay imprecisiones en el informe del Tranvía” (“There are...
Back in late 2018 I wrote a series of articles on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. It seemed rather appropriate to do an update given the increased attention on life and death during these past two years. I would guess that almost every man and woman, and even many children, contemplated their mortality in light...
By Irina Ivanova Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because they constantly leak small amounts of methane even while they’re off, a new study has found. The same study also found that home stoves can emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, raising concerns about health and indoor air quality. Even when...
In what officials say is the “deadliest flooding in years,” at least 14 have died and 36 others were injured in northern Quito Monday night. Meteorologists warn that more rain in expected on Tuesday. Most of the deaths and injuries occurred in Quito’s La Gasca sector, where some streets were three meters deep in water...
By Jeremiah Reardon Christmas approached in Cuenca when I heard from my friend and fellow University of Maryland graduate, Carol Leutner. Hi Jeremiah, I hope you and Belinda are doing well during this crazy holiday time. I am wondering if you can help me arrange some press coverage since you know people in the business. Do you...
Lunes, 31/1/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – Cuenca, ciudad cara para vivir (Cuenca, an expensive city to live in) – Data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INEC) shows that the Family Basic Basket costs $30 more in Cuenca than the rest of the country. In 12/2021, the national average for...
President Guillermo Lasso is threatening to veto legislation being debated in the National Assembly if it goes beyond the Constitutional Court’s order to allow abortion in cases of rape. Some assembly members are proposing a broader revision of the current law, in line with abortion laws recently enacted in Argentina and Uruguay, where the decision...
Following a series of workshops over the weekend, Cuenca city officials and the National Police command announced new plans to improve law enforcement in the city. The meetings followed reports last week that police were being transferred from Cuenca to Guayaquil. “This was a misunderstanding based on social media reports,” Mayor Pedro Palacios said Saturday....
The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee voted Sunday to allow the reopening of bars, discos, entertainment centers and brothels and to increase the capacity for restaurants and public offices. The COE said that improving Covid-19 pandemic conditions dictated the changes. Previously under a 30 percent capacity limit, restaurants are now allowed to operate at 50 percent...
By Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer, not to go to Shanghai to visit the mother of a dissident. He went to the airport anyway. His phone’s health code app — a digital pass indicating possible exposure to the coronavirus — was green, which meant...
Ecuador’s privately held heavy crude pipeline burst on Friday and technical staff are at the scene working to contain the damage, crude transport company OCP Ecuador said. OCP is blaming the rupture on a rockfall caused by recent rains. The incident happened in the so-called Piedra Fina zone, an area in Ecuador’s Amazon where regressive...
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