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Pending certification by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and a ten-day period in which parities may decide to consolidate tickets, voters could have as many as 18 presidential candidates to choose from in the February 2021 national election. The deadline for parties to nominate candidates was midnight Sunday. Under Ecuadorian law, there will be a...
Ecuador voters will have plenty of choices for president in the February election. Sunday is the deadline for political parties to name their presidential and vice presidential candidates and 15 of the tickets have ready been identified. There are 23 parties certified to run candidates in the presidential and National Assembly elections, although not all...
A Quito doctor and infectious disease specialist disputes claims that most of the excess deaths recorded in Ecuador are from Covid-19 infections. Instead, he says that a majority of the deaths are the result of fear that keeps people sick with other health conditions from seeking medical attention when they need it. Romero Enríquez, a...
The national Emergency Operations Committee on Thursday voted to allow more ridership on buses and trains and to reopen movie theaters and some sports training facilities. The change increases the maximum capacity from 50 percent to 75 percent for interprovincial, intra-provincial, school, tourism and urban transportation systems. The changes apply to cantons under yellow light...
Jueves, 20/8/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Mobile library – The Casa de la Cultura del Azuay is getting to roll out the “BiblioAzuay” project. The project was created last year, but its start date in marzo was delayed by the health emergency. The mobile library, housed in a van,...
By Joe Emersberger The London-based news service Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of U.S. allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia, violent protesters in Nicaragua or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal U.S. sanctions on...
By Andrew Wight Despite being home to millions of people, the city of Guayaquil is right on the edge of coastal mountains and mangrove habitats swarming with biodiversity – and possibly still a jaguar. Juan de Dios Morales, nature photographer and principal founder of the Wild GYE Initiative, says his group has been using camera...
In response to questions from the National Electoral Council (CNE), National Court of Justice Judge Daniela Camacho wrote Wednesday that former President Rafael Correa’s conviction in the Bribes 2012-216 case is “fully enforceable” and that an appeal filed by his attorneys does not change the status of the case. The judge’s statement was sent to...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said Wednesday that delays in production of electronic passenger cards mean the tram will, most likely, continue to be free until at least mid-October. “Because we had a very late start in the process, we need more time to produce the cards,” he said. He blamed the delay on bus owners...
Miércoles, 19/8/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – “Chat Comunitario” para evitar delitos (“Community Chat” to avoid crimes) – The Policía Nacional is boosting a project called “Chat Comunitario” to reduce insecurity in Azuay. The program requires citizen participation and a positive use of technology for organizing in different communities....
By Peter Andrews The coronavirus misinformation that scientists, politicians and media have fed to the public has been shocking. Take a tour through the bizarre, contradictory and downright ludicrous myths that have done more damage than Covid. Myth 1: Slowing the spread of the virus is a good idea This is the fundamental premise of...
Ecuador’s armed forces said on Tuesday that dozens of vessels from a predominantly Chinese fishing fleet that is operating near the Galapagos Islands have turned off tracking systems to prevent monitoring of their activities. Of around 325 ships still fishing in the waters near the ecologically sensitive Galapagos, 149 have at some point in recent...
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