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The president of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), Juan Zapata, announced Thursday that the committee is recommending an end to the Covid-19 state of emergency declared for El Oro Province and the city of Guayaquil. Zapata and Vice Minister of Health José Ruales said they would send the recommendation to President Guillermo Lasso late...
After Tuesday’s announcement that Mexico was reinstating a visa requirement for Ecuadorian travelers, the size of crowds outside Cuenca’s Civil Registry office has more than doubled. Those waiting to apply for passports, including many who spend the night in line, are trying to beat the September 4 date when the new requirement goes into effect....
Miércoles, 25/8/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Recorte afecta a los becarios (Cut affects scholarship recipients) – There are over 13,000 scholarship recipients in the Austro, some are students with limited means, and others with high academic achievements. Last lunes, 8 private universities, including UPS (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana) and UDA (Universidad del...
A delegation of roughly 150 members of an indigenous community in Ecuador’s Amazon region on Tuesday demanded the National Court of Justice (CNJ) uphold a lower-court ruling ordering the eviction of loggers from their ancestral lands. The protesting representatives of the Siekopai nation were referring to a 2018 decision by the Provincial Court of Sucumbios,...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) is calling on Ecuador’s government to provide better security in its prison system, claiming that recent murders and violence indicate a lack of institutional control. “The rights and personal integrity of those imprisoned in the country have not been protected and we call on the authorities to make...
Martes, 24/8/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Clases en el aula y virtuales (Classes in classroom and virtually) – The 2021-2022 school year in the Sierra and Amazonía starts el 1/9 with 7 regulations schools need to meet for gradual return to classes. These include calculating capacity, having the support of the...
The United State’s Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Monday is likely to have widespread ramifications, and not just in the U.S. Shortly after the FDA announcement, the U.S. military command and a number of large companies and universities announced new vaccine mandates for their institutions. Many organizations had...
Talks are underway between the president’s office and the interior and tourism ministries about creating a new visa category for so-called digital nomads, those who work by internet and can live anywhere in the world. According to Tourism Minister Niels Olsen, Ecuador could become the first country in South America to offer the option. According...
Cuenca bus companies are again demanding that the city allow fare increases, claiming that dozens of meetings between owners and officials have accomplished nothing. “We need a fare of 40 or 45 cents to maintain our service and pay our debts,” says Oswaldo Flores, president of the Cuenca Transportation Chamber, which represents bus owners. “If...
By Mark A. Mahoney I recently returned from a wonderful backpacking trip to California and will be writing soon on the benefits of physical activity relative to my sense of well-being and mental health. The serenity produced by hiking and camping within the Ansel Adams Wilderness of the high Sierra Nevada mountains post-pandemic produced some...
Lunes, 23/8/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Alta desnutrición infantil en Azuay (High child malnutrition in Azuay) – The cantons of Nabón, Oña, Pucará, and Sígsig have a problem with malnutrition, mostly in children between 0 and 5 years old. A 2018 national survey showed more than 35% of children were malnurished...
More than 500 soldiers and 150 police evicted a small group of protesters from a hill near Montecristi Saturday as workers moved in to begin the installation of a radar station to detect drug trafficking aircraft. According to the government, most of the protesters are involved in the transfer of drug shipments between small aircraft...
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