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For the third time, the International Criminal Police Agency, better known as Interpol, has refused to issue a red alert for the arrest and extradition of former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. As it did in the previous cases, the agency said that that the government’s case against the former president was political and not criminal....
Most of the migrants enter Ecuador at the Peruvian border, at Huaquillas, and almost none of them plan to stay. According to the Foreign Ministry, the estimated 200 Haitians, Asians and Africans entering the country each day are met by so-called travel coordinators who put them on buses headed to Machala and Guayaquil where they...
Martes, 3/8/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Cruce de acusaciones (Crossing of accusations) – As expected, the impeachment of ex-Comptroller General Pablo Celi in the National Assembly is a crossing of accusations, attacks, and grievances, especially with the Correista banque. Celi, who is accused of organized crime, said that the questioning against...
As vaccinations in the U.S. have slowed significantly from their peak, they have risen sharply in Latin America, with a host of countries now inoculating against Covid-19 at a far higher rate than their richer neighbor to the north. The progress in Latin America is built on two factors that have gotten little attention: In...
The murders began Friday in Guayaquil, just hours after a joint police – military operation made the largest drug bust in Ecuador history. The cache of cocaine, opioids and Chinese-produced drug-making chemicals was valued at $450 million and was presumed to have arrived by shipping container at the Port of Guayaquil. “Once we made the...
Lunes, 16/8/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – Productores, claves de un “plan social” (Producers, keys to a “social plan”) – Associations and small agricultural producers in San Fernando will be suppliers to the municipality for assembling baskets of organic food to be given free to seniors. The City will spend $2,100/mo. to buy...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about Cuenca sculptor Eduardo Segovia. To read the first part, click here. By John Keeble Eduardo Segovia, Cuenca’s 83-year-old ceramicist, yearns to take on the big projects that swirl through his creative mind but reflects on his failing physical energy and admits: “I am old...
In a press conference at the Mariscal La Mar Airport Saturday, Mayor Pedro Palacios said at least three more airlines want to enter the Cuenca market. Palacios was joined by Avianca’s regional director David Alemán who announced earlier last week that his airline would begin service to Cuenca in October. “Before the pandemic, there were...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about Cuenca sculptor Eduardo Segovia. By John Keeble Cuenca’s internationally-renowned ceramicist Eduardo Segovia sat in his elegant room filled with his favourite art, contemplating the past and the future, and talked of his life and his feeling of “not being around” much longer. At 83...
Mexico announced Sunday that it is establishing new rules for Ecuadorians arriving in the country by air. According to sources in Ecuador’s Mexican embassy, the requirements were developed jointly by the Mexican government, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. immigration services. Under the new rules, Ecuadorians arriving at Mexican airports must present: A...
By Julian Resendiz Ecuadorians have been leaving their country in large numbers during the past 20 years due to economic and political woes. But that migration has accelerated “spectacularly” recently, with Mexico being their primary springboard to the United States, says an expert on migration from that region. In 2020, at least 3,000 Ecuadorians flew...
The United States experienced unprecedented multiracial population growth and a decline in the white population for the first time in the nation’s history, according to U.S. Census officials, who released data Thursday revealing the most sweeping picture of America’s racial and ethnic makeup in a decade. Overall, the country’s population grew at its slowest rate since the...
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