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It’s been called “super tea” or “super leaf” and health food stores and specialty coffee shops in North America and Europe can’t get enough of it. Guayusa, as it is commonly known, is made from the ilex guayusa leaf. According to some scientific reports and its enthusiasts, who call it the “healthiest tea in the...
After months of registering in the “excellent” and “good” categories, Cuenca’s air quality has been in the “unhealthy” range since Sunday morning. The regional Risk Management Service says the culprit is “a large load” of fine particulates, which it blames on vehicular pollution and residue from wildfires that continue to burn in the area. “The...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth 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 Sylvan Hardy A 35-year resident of Cuenca, Karen Kennedy personifies the heroic adventurer who abandoned a mundane life in the U.S. and immersed herself in...
By Marcelo Rochabrun and Daniel Ramos Luis Arce, a quiet economist was sworn in as Bolivia’s president on Sunday after a landslide election win, knew where he stood in the political spectrum as a young teenager in La Paz, when he picked up the writings of philosopher Karl Marx. Arce steered the Andean country’s economy...
Responding to criticism of advertising affixed to several of the Cuenca’s tram units, city officials say the commercial signage is a way to offset operational costs of the system. “It’s a valuable source of revenue that we cannot afford to pass up,” says tram director Carolina Ormaza. “We are following local and international standards in...
Viernes, 6/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Publicación destaca rol de mujeres “heroicas” (Book highlights roll of “heroic” women <Or, to be politically correct, “sheroic” women>) – Kynku has published “100 mujeres de nuestra historia, Ecuador.” Copies will be distributed to bookstores the last week of noviembre. You can also...
By Adela Suliman Denmark on Friday defended its decision to kill millions of minks even after the World Health Organization played down fears of a mutated coronavirus strain, whose discovery precipitated the move. “All remaining mink will now be culled including non-infected and otherwise healthy mink,” Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said in a press...
The Ministry of Finance said Thursday it has caught up payments to government employees, contractors and the Social Security health system. The new disbursements came courtesy of a $2 billion in loan from the International Monetary Fund. In addition, Finance Minister Mauricio Pozo says that hundreds of millions of dollars owed to municipal, provincial and...
Jueves, 5/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – No hay nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Azogues festeja sola sus 200 años (Azogues celebrates its 200 years alone) – 3 ceremonial events for the Bicentennial of Azogues were held with the vice mayor presiding. The mayor is in quarantine. Sugerirán juicio político a Romo (Impeachment suggested...
Royal Caribbean will be looking for volunteer passengers as the company prepares to return its ships to service, Vicki Freed, the senior vice president of sales, trade support and service for the company, said during a webinar this week, Cruise Industry News reported. The details of how it will recruit volunteers remain to be determined. Cruise lines will...
The National Police Command says contract killings and gang violence are responsible for a rising number of murders in Ecuador’s coastal region. The command reports that murders nationwide have increased to 914 in 2020 compared to 848 in the same period of 2019, with almost all the additional murders occurring in Guayas, Esmeraldas, Manabí Provinces....
Miércoles, 4/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada, nada, nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Alcalde ofrece alta inversión (Mayor offers large investment) – At the Sesión Solemne yesterday, Mayor Pedro Palacios announced an investment of $200,000,000 in public works to reactivate the city’s economy. He also received the responsibility for the Panamericana Norte highway...
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