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Viernes, 26/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del jueves, 25/5 (1 agenda): Agenda Cultural 27/5 a las 15:00 – Museos – Guided visits at the Museo Remigio Crespo (Calle Larga y Borrero). 28/5 desde 11:00 a 15:00 – Observatorio (Planetario) – Astronomical projections. <See stars without the pain of getting punched in...
The management of public oil company Petroecuador is going on the offensive against the public referendum that would end oil production in Yasuní National Park. “If this effort is successful, the country will lose billions of dollars in revenue and face large loss claims by contractors working in bock 43,” says Ramón Correa, Petroecuador general...
A poll released Wednesday by Click Research offers a first post-cross death look at how Ecuadorian voters feel about the prospective presidential candidates. It is also clarifies what they think of the cross death and the biggest issues facing the country. Among possible presidential candidates, the yet-unnamed nominee from the Corresista Citizen’s Revolution party leads...
Former National Police lieutenant Germán Cáceres was sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison Thursday for the murder of his wife, attorney María Belén Bernal. In addition to the sentence, the maximum allowed under the criminal code, Cáceres was ordered to pay Bernal’s family $234,000 in reparations. Cáceres admitted committing the murder during...
By Cristina Gallardo, Suzanne Lynch and Hans von der Burchard In the struggle for hearts and minds against Russia, Europe has it sights on a new target. Unfortunately for them, Latin America’s not listening. An extended charm offensive by senior diplomats from major European nations and institutions has sought to win over neutrally-minded Latin American...
Miércoles, 24/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Propuesta pictórica gratuita en la Galería de la Alcaldía (Free show of pictures at the City Hall Gallery) – The show, ‘Libertad, intimismo y creación’ opened today and will run through 19/7 at the Galería de la Alcaldía. The neoexpresionist works by several artists are from the reserve collection of...
President Guillermo Lasso has signed his second urgent economic decree-law after invoking of the cross death that dissolved the National Assembly. The “Attraction and Promotion of Investments for Productive Development” initiative, which provides for the creation of new duty-free trade zones, was sent on Tuesday to the Constitutional Court for its review and implementation. The...
By Sylvan Hardy In his May 24, 1981 speech commemorating the Battle of Pichincha and Ecuador’s independence from Spain, President Jaime Roldós claimed that the fight for independence continued for Latin American countries. Ecuador should not become involved in “inconsequential entanglements,” he said, a reference to pressure by the U.S. to oppose leftist insurgencies in...
The National Elections Council’s decision to include a referendum question that could end oil production in the Yasuní National Park could have a major impact on the presidential and National Assembly elections, environmental activists and political analysts say. “Not much attention has been paid to the Yasuní issue, since the focus is on the presidential...
A major oil spill earlier this month in the Ecuadorian Amazon has sparked criticism of cleanup efforts and the lack of transparency from the government regarding the spill’s environmental impact. An oil pipeline operated by the state-owned Petroecuador ruptured earlier this month outside of the city of Nueva Loja, the capital of the province of...
By Louise Morris Diggers trundle across the chalky earth just outside the town of Xpujil, in Campeche state, southern Mexico. The land is being cleared to make way for the Maya train line, a controversial megaproject that will cross the Yucatán peninsula, whisking tourists from the beaches of Cancún and Tulum to Maya archeological sites...
Lunes, 22/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del sábado, 20/5 (1 article): Baños, nicho de los ‘beauty trips’ (Baños, a niche for beauty trips) – The parish of Baños in southwest Cuenca, is full of locations for ‘beauty trips’ where you can get a relaxing massage and spa services. From underground, water...
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