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Center-left Andres Arauz will face conservative former banker Guillermo Lasso in the second round of Ecuador’s presidential election on April 11, according to the country’s National Electoral Council. Arauz, the 36-year-old protege of former socialist President Rafael Correa, won the first round with 32.72 percent of the vote. The officials results were announced Sunday morning,...
By Aria Bendix The U.S.’s daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation’s outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they’ve fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000 per day. Dr. Martin Makary, a professor...
The National Electoral Council met Saturday morning to compile the official results of the February 7 election. Once the votes from the provincial CNE offices are accepted and approved, official results will be announced, according to council member Luis Verdesoto. The final count is expected Saturday or Sunday at the latest. All eyes are on...
Argentina’s Minister of Health Gines Gonzalez Garcia has resigned after media reports that people had been able to use connections to get access to Covid-19 vaccines. President Alberto Fernández had requested the resignation shortly after the news broke. The scandal, which emerged after a veteran journalist said he had received a shot after speaking directly...
By Peter West “There is an urgent need today for the citizens of a democracy to think well.” These words, which could have been written yesterday, come from Thinking to Some Purpose, a popular book by the British philosopher Susan Stebbing, first published in 1939 in the Penguin ‘Pelican’ books series, with that familiar blue-and-white...
By David Leonhardt If you’ve been following the Covid-19 news, you’re probably familiar with the idea of vaccine alarmism. It goes something like this: The coronavirus vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective. Vaccinated people may still be contagious. And the virus variants may make everything worse. So don’t change your behavior even if you get a...
By Liam Higgins The political effort to mount a unified campaign against the return of Correismo, personified by Andrés Arauz, suffered a serious blow this week as Yaku Pérez intensified his attacks on presidential rival Guillermo Lasso. “Do not even dream that we will ever support Lasso,” Pérez said Wednesday at a press conference. “Lasso...
Jueves, 18/2/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – No hay nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Hospitales están en máxima alerta (Hospitals are on high alert) – The crowds in Cuenca during Carnaval included parties, family gatherings, and trips to the beach which were followed by long lines outside of polling stations on voting day. These...
By Stephan Kueffner and Sydney Maki The socialist candidate who won the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election had lunch with investors in New York this week to try to persuade them not to panic if he wins. Andres Arauz pledged to provide investors with legal certainty if he’s victorious in the April 11 runoff,...
Kuwait’s vaccinating its citizens against Covid-19 at six times the rate of expatriates who make up two-thirds of the population, spurring claims of racism and concerns the discrepancy will delay a return to normal life. Around 119,000 Kuwaitis and 18,000 expats have been vaccinated, according to the latest data, despite more than half of those...
Leading presidential candidate Andrés Arauz met Tuesday and Wednesday with representatives of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. “I had the opportunity to explain my economic plan for Ecuador and why I disagree with some of the austerity measures they have recommended under the current loan program,” he said. “I also wanted to reassure...
With the U.S. Trump administration out of power, Colombia is turning to Russia and China for supplies of Covid-19 vaccines for its 35 million citizens. According to sources in President Iván Duque’s office, the government had been warned by former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to buy vaccines from Russia or China. Last...
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