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By John Keeble It is 3 a.m. and pitch black as we struggle up the first steep climb towards a dream – to summit the ice and snow peak of Volcán Carihuairazo a few kilometres from the mighty Chimborazo in Ecuador’s volcanoes region. The night sky, before we turned on our headlamps, was crystal clear...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an ongoing series that looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and David Morrill Jeff Salz, a four-year resident of Cuenca, first visited South America in 1973 to co-lead a ski-mountaineering expedition to the Southern Patagonian ice...
Lunes, 16/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – No hay nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Racionan el agua (Rationing water) – See Monday’s CHL article for story. Designan tesoreros únicos de campaña (Sole campaign treasurers designated) – The CNE approved the maximum amounts political parties can spend during the campaign from 31/12/2020 to 4/2/2021. Each...
By Julia Buckley It was the good news that gave the world hope. On Nov. 9 it was announced that one of the candidates for a Covid-19 vaccine, made by Pfizer and BioNTech, was over 90% effective in preventing volunteers from contracting the virus. Then, on Nov. 15, there was more good news: Moderna announced...
The public company that provides drinking water to Cuenca announced Saturday that it has instituted scheduled water cut-offs in Ricaurte and Sayausí as a result of ongoing drought conditions. Director of the company’s drinking water division, Fabián Cazar, said further cuts could be required if there is no rainfall in the coming days. Cazar said...
By William Cooper U.S. politics have become criminalized. A steady drum beat of words and deeds — from “lock her up” chants, to prosecutions of President Trump’s associates, to Trump pushing for Joe Biden’s indictment — has eroded the bright line between politics and the criminal law. This is deeply troubling for several reasons. First,...
Ecuadorians who took advantage of a law that suspended payments for a variety of debts and services for six-month are now required to pay up. Provisions of the Humanitarian Law, passed in April, that allowed deferral of rent, utilities, mortgages and other debts, ended Thursday, clearing the way for payments to be collected. Public utility...
By Manuel Rapalo As many voters across major United States cities poured into the streets on Saturday to celebrate a win for President-elect Joe Biden, the streets of the Mexican capital retained their usual hum of city noise. But rest assured, experts say, while the people here may not be actively celebrating, the news represents a...
The likelihood that a coronavirus infection will prove fatal has dropped by nearly a third since April due to improved treatment, researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said on Thursday. In the United States, Covid-19 now kills about 0.6 percent of people infected with the virus, compared with...
By Vincent Ricci A historic court ruling in Ecuador that will let a community vote on whether to allow mining in its midst could set the stage for a region-wide grassroots pushback against extractive projects. Pedro Palacios, the mayor of Cuenca, had submitted the request for a referendum to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court on Sept. 8,...
The National Emergency Committee (COE) says it will consider imposing a “limited” state of emergency if Covid-19 infections trend higher. “We are watching the case count closely and will take the necessary measures to control the spread of the virus if necessary,” Juan Zapata, director of the ECU-911, said Wednesday. “We are watching with great...
By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia Pfizer is expected to seek federal permission to release its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, a move that holds promise for quelling the pandemic but also sets up a tight time frame to make sure consumers understand what it will mean to get the shots. The vaccine,...
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