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Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday he will seek to disconnect the handover of crude from outstanding debt to China during a visit to the Asian country next month, part of his plan to renegotiate some $4.1 billion in debt. In the last decade China has become Ecuador’s primary financial partner, with crude for...
Medical organizations and some physicians are claiming the national Emergency Operations Committee acted too quickly on Saturday in relaxing Covid-19 health restrictions in most of the country. They claim that the number of cases of the highly infections Omicron variant is still high and that it is too early to allow greater capacity in businesses,...
By Gordon G. Chang If you are in the habit of celebrating Halloween in the middle of January, you’re in luck this year. American ports, plagued by logistical problems, are now unloading Halloween gear from container ships. Supply chains, which once delivered goods to American stores cheaply, quickly and at the right moment, are now,...
Lunes, 24/1/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada, unless you want to count taking a trip to get grain milled traditionally. Titular – Relevo en mando policial (Change in police command) – Pres. Lasso replaced Tannya Varela as the comandante general of the Policía Nacional with General Carlos Fernando Cabrera. – see Monday’s CHL article...
Ecuador has ordered troops to the port city of Guayaquil to combat a wave of drug-related violence that has claimed dozens of lives. President Guillermo Lasso said Sunday the military has been deployed to “strengthen control” and “prevent the entry of drugs from the north, from Colombia, or weapons from the south, from Peru.” In...
A weekend that witnessed at least 12 murders in Guayaquil, most of them committed by hitmen believed to be connected with drug gangs, is sparking public outrage and calls for an overhaul of law enforcement strategy. In addition to the dead, 16 more were injured, 11 of them requiring hospitalization. So far in 2022, the...
The national Emergency Operations Committee has removed most of the country from its ‘red alert’ pandemic list, including Cuenca, Quito and Guayaquil. The COE announced the move during a Saturday meeting following a report by Health Minister Ximena Garzón that Covid-19 cases have dropped dramatically in the last week. Of the 193 cantons put on...
By Andrew Harding South African scientists — praised internationally for first detecting the Omicron variant — have accused Western nations of ignoring early evidence that the new Covid variant was “dramatically” milder than those which drove previous waves of the pandemic. Two of South Africa’s most prominent coronavirus experts told the BBC that Western scepticism...
By Mawuna Remarque Koutonin In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat.” What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person...
The United Nations Children’s Fund is asking Ecuador to reconsider its decision to close schools in reaction to the recent increase of Covid-19 cases. “One thing we know for sure is that another wave of widespread school closures will be disastrous for the country’s children. Face-to-face education is necessary and urgent,” Unicef said Friday in...
By Tony Tran Months after El Salvador announced that it would accept bitcoin as legal tender, the country has found itself on the verge of economic collapse yet again. The country’s president Nayib Bukele made waves last year when he announced that the nation would accept the token for use at stores and banks. The self-described...
By Jon Henley, Sam Jones, Angela Giuffrida and Philip Oltermann A row over meat consumption in Spain over the last month is just the most recent eruption of the debate all over Europe, as the continent grapples with making its famous cuisines more sustainable. Food is inextricably intertwined with national identity for countries in continental...
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