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By Jeff Salz Marvin and Bruno are brothers who started living on the football field next to our home about a month ago. After a week of watching their antics in amazement — enjoying their almost magical prowess with a soccer ball, their relentless hard training while living out in the open 24/7 — no...
By Lauren Mascarenhas The risk of death from Covid-19 is an astonishing 10 times higher in countries where most of the population is overweight, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Obesity Forum. The new findings may explain why there are so many more Covid deaths per capita in wealthy countries such as...
According to transit police, all major highways leading into and out of Cuenca were impassable early Wednesday night. After a massive landslide closed the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway through the Cajas Mountains, transportation officials suggested drivers use alternative routes through Cañar and El Oro provinces but later issued a statement on Twitter that those routes were also...
Miércoles, 3/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Hay riesgos de desbordamientos (There are risks of overflows) – The Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) is predicting heavy rains for the rest of the week in Cuenca, the province, and the inter-Andean alley resulting in rivers and other waterways...
A demographic study of global migration patterns by the University of Barcelona and InterNations predicts that Cuenca and Quito will continue to rank one and two as the most popular landing spots in Ecuador and South America for international expats as the impact of the Covid-19 declines. In total numbers, the study predicts that Cuenca...
Martes, 2/3/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Daños por lluvias (Rain damage) – The rains have caused damage in Pucará, Santa Isabel, Girón and Cuenca in Azuay and in Azogues in Cañar. <Following is basically a list of damage so probably not relevant to you unless you’re planning a...
By Stephen Vargha Worldwide, there is no shortage of delicious and highly rated vegan restaurants. The website Happy Cow, that works like Yelp, but only for vegan and vegetarian food, lists at least 5,523 plant-based restaurants in South America. Not surprising, Brazil has the most with 2,402. Ecuador is sixth with 261 listings, and that...
Ecuador has named a new health minister after the previous minister stepped down over alleged irregularities in the country’s Covid-19 vaccination program. President Lenin Moreno on Monday announced that Rodolfo Farfán, a 63-year-old surgeon from Guayaquil, who served as vice minister for comprehensive care in the country’s health ministry, would replace Juan Carlos Zevallos. Zevallos...
Despite periodic highway blockages on E35 on Monday, traffic continued to move, albeit slowly, on the country’s main north-south route. “We are working with the protesters to allow the passage of vehicles but we are advising the public that movement is slow and uncertain,” the transit police said in a statement. Yaku Pérez, in whose...
Aviation officials are asking Latam-Ecuador airlines for clarification of a weekend announcement that it plans to “outsource” its passenger service operations to other companies. The airline, which has suffered heavy losses throughout South America as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, said it could not maintain its current personnel and operational infrastructure with a passenger...
Lunes, 1/3/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Un año conviviendo con el virus (A year living with the virus) – Although it is hard to know the exact date of the first coronavirus patient in Cuenca, data from the Ministerio de Salud Pública put it at el 2 de...
By Jan Dynes Despite all the ugly alternative news and craziness that were a megaphone for how loud the obnoxious can be there are many who have simply perservered through the pandemic. We need to realize that those who were quiet and not screaming from the rooftops through every social media forum were in fact...
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