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By Ellie Shechet Trees and forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, or the movement of carbon dioxide through the atmosphere. Thanks to activities like deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, there is now 2.5 times the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than there was before industrialization. Without forests, says Francisco...
Following up on a suggestion from the Constitutional Court, President Lenín Moreno has sent a draft of the Health Emergency Management Law to the National Assembly. The legislation would allow the government to impose restrictions on personal liberties in the case of pandemics or other health crises. Three times in the last year, the Constitutional...
Jueves, 29/4/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Despenalizan aborto por violación (Abortion for rape decriminalized) – See today’s (jueves) CHL article for story. Restringen uso de canchas y parques “por prevención” (Use of courts and parks restricted “for prevention”) – This morning saw various parks with tape around the...
By Alistair Bell & Mitra Taj Losing the fight against same-sex marriage at home, leading U.S. evangelical Christians are joining in the culture wars in Latin America as cheerleaders for opponents of gay legal partnerships, abortion and pornography. One of the Americans is veteran legal crusader Mat Staver who was both a disciple of late...
By a seven to two vote, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court voted Wednesday to decriminalize abortion in all cases of rape. The decision sparked a sharp reaction from Catholic Church leadership which says it will try to overturn the ruling in a national referendum. In its decision, the court ordered the wording of the current law, which...
Miércoles, 28/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Préstamo de libros en la CCE (Book loan at the CCE) – The CCE has set up a virtual library to borrow books from the biblioteca Manuel Muñoz Cueva. If you are interested, go to https://www.cceazuay.gob.ec/biblioteca-manuel-munoz-cueva/. There is a catalogue of 35,000 books...
By Jeremiah Reardon Texas and the Southwest always held a special place among my childhood fantasies. It’s where the buffalo roamed and the skies were not cloudy all day. Scenes of desert and cactus stirred empathy for my cowboy-heroes. At school, Texas stood out as that huge state on the colorful map that the teacher...
By Nicholas Goldberg To hear some people tell it, vaccine passports are just another effort by Democrats, progressives and Satan to take away your freedom, just like when they told you to wear a mask and made you shut down your business. In a hyperventilating Wall Street Journal op-ed a couple of weeks ago, two medical...
Ecuador National Police arrested Peter Robert Dettmer Tuesday for a series of alleged rapes in the U.S. state of Colorado. Dettmer, subject of an outstanding Interpol “red alert,” was picked up at his apartment on Av. Ordóñez Lasso in Cuenca. According to police, Dettmer is charged with at least nine rapes in Jefferson County, Colorado...
In discussions with the Guillermo Lasso’s presidential transition team, the government revealed Monday that it expects to receive shipments of the Johnson & Johnson and Sputnik vaccines. Currently, the health ministry is administering only the Pfizer and Sinovac vaccines although it expects a shipment next week of from AstraZeneca. In a meeting about vaccine deliveries,...
By Roger Cohen Three French lockdowns, and counting, over the past 13 months have been many things, among them a rare opportunity for the formidable national bureaucracy of about 5.6 million public servants to display their gift for the complication of lives. With the announcement of the third Paris lockdown last month to try to...
An increasing number of countries are announcing they’re opening up to vaccinated travelers as rollouts continue in the United States and abroad. Israel, Nepal, Greece, and several Caribbean destinations are among the latest to make the move. The biggest news this week, via Reuters, is that Greece has lifted its quarantine restrictions and will reopen...
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