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Jueves, 8/3/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Mujeres, sin empleo y víctimas de violencia (Women, unemployed and victims of violence) – <Happy International Women’s Day> Confinement because of Covid has aggravated violence against and increased the workload of women. Sonia Martínez, an attorney, law professor and researcher into gender...
By Daniela Desantis and Carlos Valdez Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many into debt and poverty. “I have pawned all my things,” Contreras, 34, told Reuters between...
By Stephen Vargha One of Cuenca’s newest restaurants’ fare is based on the 1989 American romantic comedy, “When Harry Met Sally,” directed by Rob Reiner. More specifically, Pig & Cow’s sandwiches are inspired by the productions of Meg Ryan, aka Sally Albright. “We know from the movie about Katz’s pastrami. I saw Meg Ryan’s sandwich...
Women’s rights supporters gathered Sunday afternoon at the Broken Bridge to decry Friday’s vandalism of a Rio Tomebamba bridge dedicated to the victims of femicide. The vandals removed a plaque honoring the victims and painted graffiti identifying themselves as the “Cuenca Fascists.” The graffiti announced a bounty for the killing of an indigenous woman who...
By Maria Cheg and Lori Hinnant In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press...
Ecuador and Paraguay have both received some 20,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine from Chile, the governments of the recipient countries said on Saturday. The donation of a total 40,000 doses provided a stark example of the disparities in South American countries’ inoculation campaigns. Chile, one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, ranks sixth in...
I posted a column a couple of years back regarding the responsibility of expats to contribute their fair share to the well-being of our community. The message bears revisiting. Jeanne’s Periodico recently reported the following. “The federal government owes $1.054 billion to over 220 cities in Ecuador and has not structured a detailed plan to...
Mexico City has launched the first of what it hopes will be several cable-car lines serving the poorer outskirts of the city of nine million. Thursday’s inauguration of the first leg of the “Cablebus” line marks the latest chapter in Latin America’s love affair with cable cars, which are seen in much of the world...
Ecuador Interior Minister Patricio Pazmiño has resigned following deadly prison riots that left 80 dead on February 23, citing “personal reasons” but also complaining about “unfair accusations” made about police and prison officials. In his resignation letter to President Lenín Moreno, Pazmiño said he welcomed a full investigation of the riots but only if it...
By Luke O’Neill The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If it all holds up, people will be protected from severe disease, the amount of virus will progressively decrease, and we can truly plan for...
By Liam Higgins Almost unnoticed in the aftermath of the February 7 national election was the death of the movement that dominated Ecuador’s political landscape for 14 years. Founded by former president Rafael Correa among others, Alianza Pais, failed to place a single member in the new National Assembly and its presidential candidate, Ximena Peña,...
Jueves, 4/3/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina educación y cultura – Semana de la artesanía y diseño alista el CIDAP (CIDAP readies craft and design week) – So that the traditional spaces in which artisans work don’t disappear, CIDAP is organizing a series of workshops, conference and talks on the need to...
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