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Government officials are asking the U.S. to back up its claim that military and police personnel, including some generals, are involved in the international drug trade, paid by Mexican and Colombian cartels. U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Michael Fitzpatrick said Saturday that the U.S. has cancelled the visas of hundreds of Ecuadorian military and law enforcement...
Lunes, 13/12/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Campeón 2021 – Independiente del Valle won something and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Cuenca – Tres vías más a cargo de EMOV (EMOV responsible for three more roads ) – Responsibility for stretches of 3 federal highways where they are within...
By Greg Tate Afropessimism is all the rage among millennial Black academics and activists — most notably among Black feminist critical race theorists, who themselves are now the prime targets of the MAGA crowd. Black intellectuals haven’t enjoyed this much pop currency among the right wing since Black Power took over buildings to demand Black...
At least 18 people were killed and 25 others injured in a passenger bus accident in the Sucua canton of the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago in southern Ecuador, the country’s emergency response service reports. The accident occurred on Saturday night in Huambi, when the bus covering the Macas-Loja route veered off its road and...
With the deadline fast approaching for the court-ordered revision of Ecuador’s abortion law, there is little consensus in the National Assembly on several key points. During debates on Thursday and Friday, pro- and anti-abortion factions showed little inclination for compromise despite the December 28 deadline to enact new legislation decriminalizing abortion in the case of...
A New Zealand man who was vaccinated against Covid-19 as many as 10 times in one day on behalf of other people has been called “unbelievably selfish,” sparking an investigation. According to health officials the man’s interest was financial gain since the country pays those who receive shots. Astrid Koornneef, group manager operations for the...
By Elizabeth Roberts Some people choose expat life for a fat salary and a career boost, some for retirement, some for a sabbatical and a slower pace, and some for an adventure. Whatever their motivation, those who’ve spent time abroad are united by one thing — they’ve discovered something about themselves and the world. Here’s...
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) has attacked National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori and other members of the Pachakutik party for voting against an impeachment trial for President Guillermo Lasso. “These members are supporting the corrupt interests of the president and his government against the will of the people who support the prosecution...
Mexico is urging the U.S. government to rethink its migration policy after a horror road accident killed 55 people attempting to migrate in a truck on a major transit route to the United States. Bodies draped in white sheets lined the roadside near Tuxtla Gutierrez in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a truck...
Editor’s note: Among his many careers, Curt Madison has been a sailing instructor in Hawaii, a documentary filmmaker and boat builder in Alaska and university professor in Maine. He moved to Ecuador in 2014 and planted his first coffee trees at Finca Alaska Sur in La Papaya, Loja Province, in 2017. By Curt Madison Ecuadorian...
Jueves, 9/12/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Invitan a florecimiento de los guayacanes (Invitation to the flowering of the guayacan trees) – One of the best natural spectacles in the world is the flowering of the guayacan trees between diciembre y enero in more than 40,000 hectares of the Zapotillo canton in Loja. Although the...
Ecuador’s mining industry is threatened by legal uncertainty, the sector’s guild said on Wednesday, citing a decision by the country’s top court to withdraw environmental permissions for a project in a protected forest. The Constitutional Court last week rescinded an environmental license for initial exploration at the Rio Magdalena project in the Los Cedros forest...
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