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By Elizabeth Melimopoulos Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the virus that causes the disease, SARS-CoV-2, has mutated multiple times, with some strains being more infectious and deadlier than others. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified four of those mutations as variants of concern: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. Four others – Eta, Iota, Kappa...
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso met Wednesday morning with new Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, hours before Castillo’s inauguration, saying he looked forward to working with the new government in Lima. Castillo said he wanted to meet first with Lasso to get advice about “how to be a new president.” The presidencies of Peru and Ecuador are...
Miércoles, 28/7/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – En deciembre será la inauguración de Bienal de Cuenca (Inauguration of the Cuenca Biennial in deciembre) – The 15th Edition of the Bienal is titled “Bioceno. Cambiar el verde por el azul” (Biocene. To change green for blue), and will open el 10/12/2021 with 34 artists from 14...
By John Rapley Early in 2020, after a mysterious coronavirus emerged out of China and then raced across the globe, a quiet new year took a screeching turn. Stark images of ventilated patients in Italian hospital hallways soon filled our newsfeeds. Panic erupted across the West. One after another, governments that had been telling their...
Ecuador is vaccinating hundreds, possibly thousands, of Peruvians who have crossed the border irregularly because of a lack of vaccines in their own country. “It is our policy to deny no one a vaccine, no matter their origin,” says the Ministry of Health’s southern regional director Isabel Cueva. “We have opened vaccinations to the refugees...
An Ecuadorian court has revoked the citizenship of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is currently in a British prison. Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to a claim filed by the South American country’s Foreign Ministry. A naturalization is...
Martes, 27/7/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividadides – Plantean que el Festival de Artesanías sea “emblema” (Proposal that the Festival de Artesanías is an “emblem”) – Each Festival de Artesanías de América costs the Centro Interamericano de Artesanías y Artes Populares (CIDAP) between $100,000 and $120,000; and each year there is uncertainty about getting enough money...
By Jeremiah Reardon I slipped in black mud on Taitachugo, a mountain in El Cajas National Park. Retreating from a climb to 3600 meter (11,800 feet) altitude with friends, I had lost my footing on a trail trod by alpacas, llamas and horses as confirmed by their scat. Instantly I recalled a spill taken by...
By David Leonhardt Breakthrough infections — in which vaccinated people nonetheless get the Covid-19 virus — are one of those vexing topics that can be difficult to put in perspective. On the one hand, breakthrough infections are obviously occurring. They’ve happened to the New York Yankees and to White House officials, as well at summer...
The Quito Municipal Council has lowered capacity limits for restaurants, shopping malls and large department stores. The council said it is considering imposing additional biosecurity measures for public spaces and may require city employees to be vaccinated. The new ordinance was approved Monday and signed by Mayor Santiago Guarderas. “With the emergence of the delta...
Leonidas Iza, the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), is wasting no time in presenting his demands to the government. “There should total amnesty for all of the 600 protesters arrested in the 2019 uprising and immediate reinstatement of fuel subsidies,” he said on Saturday. “These issues are non-negotiable.” Along with outgoing...
Lunes, 26/7/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Del periodico de viernes, 23/7/2021 – 50 leyendas se traducen al inglés (50 legends translated into English) – A professor of Técnicas de la Traducción in Estudios Internacionales (Translation Techniques in International Studies) at the Universidad de Azuay <Now that’s what I should have been studying to improve...
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