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Viernes,15/1/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Acitivities of the fiestas de Cuenca continue through the month of November. To keep up with them, click here. Otras cosas – Titular – Sueño de clasificar, en firme (Dream of qualifying, firm) – The Tricolor is holding onto 3d place in the qualifications for 2022 World Cup in...
By Jane E. Brody Coconut oil continues to be widely touted as a miracle food. Proponents, including a slew of celebrities, claim it promotes weight loss, lowers blood pressure and blood glucose, protects against heart disease, increases energy, reduces inflammation, erases wrinkles and even counters Alzheimer’s disease. Plus it tastes great, so what could be...
A prolonged gunbattle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison killed at least 68 inmates and wounded 25 on Saturday, while authorities said it took most of the day to regain control at the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw the country’s worst prison bloodbath. The killing erupted before dawn at the prison in Guayaquil in...
The Interior Ministry reports that crime increased in most categories through the first nine months of 2021. Auto theft showed the largest jump, up 55 percent while personal robberies increased 27 percent. Home and business burglaries increased 16 percent while murders were up 14 percent. According to the ministry, almost 90 percent of the increase...
Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office said on Friday that it had frozen the bank accounts of several business leaders and former government officials, including former President Rafael Correa and members of his administration, who were sentenced last year for breaking campaign finance laws. Correa and 19 others, including his former vice president who is in prison...
By Luisa Palacios and Francisco Monaldi Oil and gas prices are at multi-year highs — for now. But with a rash of net-zero pledges from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations alike coming from COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, the future of Latin America’s oil industry is in jeopardy. The region’s national oil companies, especially in a few...
Although Ecuador’s annual inflation rate increased to 1.47 percent in October, an economics professor says the country will not suffer the same post-pandemic price surge seen in the U.S. “Because we use the U.S. dollar, there is concern that we will experience similar inflation as the U.S. but this is highly unlikely,” says Randall Covington,...
Following a full day of meetings at the Presidential Palace in Quito, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) and President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday night that significant progress was made and that negotiations will continue. According to both Lasso and Conaie President Leonidas Iza, consensus was reached on three of the six agenda...
Miércoles, 10/11/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – From the Fiestas de Cuenca Agenda: 11 al 14 de noviembre: 1st CAMPEONATO CHALLENGER DE LAS AMÉRICAS – 20:00 Colegio Benigno Malo, Av. Solano y Aurelio Aguilar – Organized by Cuenca Club Sercobaco Titular – Tres sábados sin vuelos (Three Saturdays without flights) – The Cuenca airport will...
By BBC Reality Check Team The burning of fossil fuels is one of the primary causes of global warming. But despite pledges to phase out support, governments around the world spend more than $420 billion each year subsidising the non-renewable energy, according to the UN Development Programme. How do fossil fuel subsidies work and which...
By Tali Arbel and Anne D’Innocenzio The U.S. says that it’s inviting the global community to visit now that the government has ended the ban on travelers from 33 countries. In reality, however, it will still be difficult — if not impossible — for much of the globe to enter the country and experts say...
Martes, 9/11/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Asistir a las aulas será obligatorio (Attendance in classrooms will be mandatory) – The schedule for a return to mandatory in classroom instruction will start el 22/11. The return will be progressive starting with students in Bachillerato Técnico in rural zones. After that will be...
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