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Lunes, 12/4/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Old articles from el sábado, 10/4 – Un museo para conocer el cacao ecuatoriano (A museum to get to know Ecuadorian cocoa) – <Just what all of you choloholics have been waiting for.> After more than a year, Johanna Cruz opened a chocolate...
Although the world’s capital markets breathed a sigh of relief following the victory of Guillermo Lasso on Sunday, he says he will not raise the country’s VAT tax from the current 12 percent. The International Monetary Fund has been pressuring current President Lenin Moreno to increase the tax, one of Latin America’s lowest, as a...
By Bruce Wilson This is just my experience and my opinions so take them as that. Just read and contemplate it. I’ve had a feeling for a long time that the pandemic had mostly petered out. In September 2020 in Machala, I asked the front door guards at the mall and a big grocery store...
By Melissa Erickson Whether eggs are good or bad for you cholesterol often depends on what you eat with them. With six grams of protein, vitamins and nutrients yet no sugar or carbs, are an affordable wonder food. On the other hand, eggs are naturally high in cholesterol. “As with any other food, a person’s...
Former Guayaquil banker Guillermo Lasso has scored an upset victory over Rafael Correa protégé Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential runoff election. With 98.2 percent of the vote counted early Monday, Lasso held an insurmountable 52.4 to 47.6 percent lead. Although it was believed that the race was narrowing in recent weeks, the average of seven...
In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centres for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a...
Unless the election is too close to call, the National Election Council expects to declare a winner by 10 p.m. in today’s presidential runoff between Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso. The CNE says that vote counting should progress quickly since there is only one race to count. Almost 13,100,000 citizens and 13,000 eligible foreign residents...
By Regina Garcia Cano and Mauricio Muñoz A surging coronavirus pandemic that has brought on new lockdown measures and exacerbated fatigue in Ecuador and Peru has left many voters generally indifferent to the names they will see on the ballots Sunday, when the neighboring South American nations are set to choose new presidents. No candidate...
By Somini Sengupta How does a country deal with climate disasters when it’s drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of nations at the crossroads of two mounting global crises that are drawing...
Jueves, 8/4/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Un circuito para conocer Todos Santos (A circuit to get to know Todos Santos) – Provocando Experiencias is conducting tours to tell the stories that shaped the traditional Todos Santos barrio. The tours start in La Merced, pass the Puente Roto, and proceed...
President Lenin Moreno fired Health Minister Mauro Falconí Wednesday night, blaming him for long waits at a Quito Covid-19 vaccination center earlier in the day. According to Moreno, some elderly people were forced to wait five hours due to a delay in vaccine deliveries. Falconí, who is quarantining at home after testing positive for Covid,...
Miércoles, 7/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – La cuarta Tertulia Cinema llega con una exposición (The fourth Tertulia Cinema arrives with an exhibition) – This edition of the Tertulia Cinema will include a show by Juliana Rengel, a collage artist, in the Sala Vitrina de la Casa de la Cultura....
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