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Claiming that the coronavirus health emergency has reached “critical proportions,” the Quito Emergency Operations Committee is asking the government to allow it to exend the nightly curfew, ban alcohol sales and impose new restrictions on the use of private vehicles. Two weeks ago, the national COE rejected a similar request citing the need to reactivate...
Martes, 14/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – 138 años tiene primera biblioteca (first library is 138 years old) – The article is part of the bicentenial observation. The first public library in Azuay was started 59 years after Cuenca declared its independence. <if you’re interested, it’s on p. 5A of...
By Eduardo Avila The Muisca language is officially extinct but its “echoes” remain. The language, part of the Chibcha linguistic family, was previously spoken by the Muisca people, who lived around Colombia’s central highlands including the area surrounding present-day Bogotá. Much of the language’s history is found in texts and documents from the 16th and...
Catholic bishops in 10 Ecuadorian cities have sent a public letter to President Lenín Moreno asking for the resignation of Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos. The bishops claim that Zevallos has shown an “inexcusable lack of leadership” in his role as the nation’s top health officer during the coronavirus pandemic and has routinely dismissed medical...
The Galapagos Islands on Monday reopened its tourist sites and marine reserve, which had been closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ecuadorian Environment Minister Paulo Proano said. “Today, under due biosecurity protocols, we are reopening the @parquegalapagos visit sites to contribute to the revitalization of the local economy,” Proano wrote on his Twitter...
The presidential ballot for the February election is getting crowded. “It is not usual for a national election to attract a large field of candidates but this one could set a record,” says political analyst Carlos Fernandez. “Jaime Nebot’s decision not to run for president has opened the flood gates since the consensus was that...
By William Haseltine The debate over whether herd immunity will be our salvation to the escalating Covid crisis was recently fueled by two new reports. The first was the release of a new nationwide study from Spain, a former Covid hotspot, which suggested that too many lives would be lost while waiting to achieve the...
Lunes, 13/7/2020 Hola, Todos – For whoever wanted links to the articles – sorry, but no can do. I work off a real newspaper. One you can wrap the garbage in after you’re done with it. You can get your own subscription, delivered to your house or into your mora bush, if you have one,...
By Alexi Cohan Many recovered coronavirus patients can struggle with lingering fatigue, shortness of breath and chest pain long after they have beaten the deadly virus, which worsens their quality of life, a recent study found. “We know that the reason Covid can be so bad is the uncontrolled inflammation,” said Dr. Shira Doron, infectious...
Colombia surpassed 150,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Sunday after its health minister reported 5,083 new infections over the previous 24 hours. The country’s total number of cases is now 150,445 – the fifth highest number in Latin America after Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru. The health minister also reported 188 new deaths on Sunday,...
Editor’s note: This the second in a series, Medical Emergencies and End of Life in Cuenca. To read part 1, click here. By Miriam Drake As the caregiver for my stroke surviving husband, I learned as we went along how things work or don’t in Cuenca. Here are a few good things for you to...
By Julie Turkewitz and Sofía Villamil; Photos by Federico Rios Sandra Abello grew up poor, left school at 11 and spent her teenage years scrubbing floors as a live-in maid. But by this year, something remarkable had happened. Ms. Abello, now 39, finally had a home in a decent neighborhood. One of her daughters, Karol,...
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