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Martes, 15/9/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Bicentenario – Repensar a Cuenca (Rethink Cuenca) – According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Cencos, Cuenca has a population of a little over 700,000 and is continuing to extend towards the outskirts of the city. The article is about the need...
By Michelle Higgins Two and a half hours and still no sign of llamas. We should have been winding our way through lush forests and mountain lakes instead of the never-ending banana plantations we continued to see outside our rented four-wheel drive. It was time to turn our dying iPhone’s navigation system back on and...
By Lianne Kolirin A collection of shrunken heads has been removed from a museum linked to Oxford University as part of what it refers to as its decolonization process. The Pitt Rivers Museum has been closed for several months due to the coronavirus pandemic. When it reopens on September 22, it will look rather different...
By Miriam Drake As an expat, do you need a power of attorney in Cuenca? Absolutely! Actually, I recommend you have three powers of attorney: one for healthcare and two others in which you authorize at least two friends to utilize when you are unable to care for yourself. If the people you select to...
Lunes, 14/9/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – 200 servicios digitales con IVA (200 digital services with IVA) – Starting martes, all digital services offered in the country will be subject to the 12% IVA (Impuesto al Valor Agregado). <Let the screaming start about having to pay more taxes and...
Claiming that they are unfairly targeted by police, hundreds of motorcyclists rolled and marched through Cuenca’s historic district on Saturday. “If you are operating a motorcycle, you are 10 times more likely to be pulled over by the police than if you are in a car,” says protest organizer Fabricio Parra. “If you are found...
The chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer has warned that not enough Covid-19 vaccines will be available for everyone in the world to be inoculated until the end of 2024 at the earliest. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, told the Financial Times that pharmaceutical companies were not increasing...
Although government-ordered curfews and the prohibition of private gatherings are no longer in effect, many health emergency restrictions will continue to be enforced in local communities. Sunday was the final day of the state of the emergency which granted the national government extraordinary authority to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus. While police in...
The pressure continues to grow on President Lenin Moreno to veto parts or all of Ecuador’s Comprehensive Health Law approved by the National Assembly. Among those urging a veto are the Catholic church and leading presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, who object to allowing abortions to save a woman’s life and recognition of the LGBTI community....
Political polarization and online misinformation are threatening vaccination programs worldwide, with public trust volatile and varying widely between countries, according to a global vaccine confidence study. The study, which maps trends in vaccine confidence across 149 countries between 2015 and 2019, found that skepticism about the safety of vaccines tended to grow alongside political instability...
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy Three decades after the Soviet Union fell, embers of the kind of totalitarian thinking that spawned the Communist Revolution are inflaming Western debate — and inciting Americans. Anyone born into Soviet oppression, and who resisted it, knows how important America’s freewheeling culture of free speech and free thought was...
A group of 12,000 doctors, scientists and public health experts delivered a simple message on Thursday: get a flu shot. As flu season approaches, health experts are stressing the need to get a flu shot more than ever. “If there’s ever a year that you need to get a flu vaccine, get your kids vaccinated,...
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