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Miércoles, 17/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Cultura – La tecnología incursiona en los museos de Cuenca (Technology makes inroads into Cuenca’s museums) – During the pandemic and with the irruption of technology and digitalization, the museums of Cuenca started rethinking their function. In the Museo Remigio Crespo Toral, there is a sound room where the public...
Argentina on Monday unveiled new emergency measures to fight its 109% inflation rate and support the ailing peso amid rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves and growing fears of a devaluation. But the more the government tries to prop up the peso with currency controls and to tame rising prices with massive interest rate hikes, the more it’ll bleed Benjamins...
President Guillermo Lasso declared the muerte cruzada, or the cross death, early Wednesday, claiming the decision is justified by “political crisis and internal commotion.” Under rules of the declaration, the National Assembly is dissolved and new elections for the Assembly and the presidency will be held. Article 148 of the Constitution allows Lasso to rule...
In a short but emotional speech, President Guillermo Lasso defended himself against embezzlement charges before the National Assembly Tuesday afternoon. Accompanied by his wife and presidential cabinet, Lasso claimed that his accusers had shown no proof that he committed a crime involving a public oil transport company and accused them of exhibiting “malicious inventiveness unparalleled...
Quito’s new mayor, Pabel Muñoz, held a series of meetings Monday and Tuesday aimed at resuming service of the city’s subway system, the Quito Metro. On Thursday, May 11, less than two weeks after the Metro opened to the public, the company operating it suspended service, citing infrastructure problems and contractual violations by the city....
By John Michael Greer Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of its raw materials. This didn’t happen...
President Guillermo Lasso will appear before the National Assembly Tuesday to defend himself against charges of embezzlement, the basis of the impeachment trial that begins this week. According to his legal secretary, the president will insist he committed no crime and followed the recommendations of the national comptroller in the case involving the public company...
Lunes, 15/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Cultura – <The pandemic is really officially over – the Culture Page is back!> De El Mercurcio del sábado, 13/5 (2 articles): Agenda cultural – 15/5, 15:00 – Training – Drawing workshop – CIDAP. 16/5, 19:00 – Presentation – Concert by the Conservatorio José María Rodríguez – Teatro Casa de...
By Stephen Vargha Cuenca’s Municipal Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibit is truly a family affair. “It was originally only going to be my exhibition,” said the 55-year-old Cuenca native Catalina Carrasco. “But I invited others to be a part of it.” “Alquimia” (Alchemy) is the name of the exhibit that runs through Friday, June...
By Sylvan Hardy As the clock ticks down to an impeachment vote in the National Assembly that could remove President Guillermo Lasso from office, political and legal experts agree he faces three options. The first is to allow the impeachment trial to play through to the end in the belief the opposition does not have...
“Captain, bring your boat closer,” shouts an Ecuadoran naval officer aboard a launch patrolling the Gulf of Guayaquil on a route traffickers use to ferry drugs to the high seas. Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second largest city and its major port, has become a strategic point for the shipment of hundreds of tons of drugs, mostly cocaine,...
By Ross Pomeroy Humans are living longer than ever before. Since 1950, global average life expectancy has risen from 47 to 73. This remarkable gain has been won through reducing poverty and eradicating disease, among other humanitarian advances. But in countries whose citizens are now living to advanced ages in the 80s and beyond, a...
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