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Miércoles, 8/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Charla – El Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural and the Universidad Católica de Cuenca are holding two talks, one miércoles and the other hoy a las 17:00. The talks are about Cuenca’s patrimony and are part of the bicentennial celebration. <The abbreviated COVID...
By Seth Borenstein Acts of kindness may not be that random after all. Science says being kind pays off. Research shows that acts of kindness make us feel better and healthier. Kindness is also key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind. Kindness “is as...
New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America, revealing at least one episode of interbreeding roughly 800 years ago after an epic transoceanic journey. The question of such contact — long hypothesized in part based on the enduring presence in Polynesia of a staple food in...
A consortium of business and professional groups gathered Tuesday in the San Luis convent courtyard to announce a campaign to revitalize Cuenca. Called “In Cuenca there are good people”, the campaign aims to show the city’s resolve to overcome the Covid-19 health crisis. “Our objectives are to emphasize the importance of maintaining the precautions to...
Martes, 7/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Archives – Documents dating from 1563 are in the archives of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo del Azuay. This archive contains the oldest book in Ecuador and are the records for the Notaría Tercera for 1563. <If you’ve bought property here,...
By Richard Quest The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back. Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of...
Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner resigned Tuesday morning and although he said he has not made a final decision it is widely believed he will announce his candidacy for president within a matter of days. “Ecuador faces one of the most important elections in its history and I offer my services to help eradicate the inequality,...
The association representing local restaurant and bar owners say many of its members have either closed their businesses permanently or are planning to. “The coronavirus has been a killer to our establishments and the government is making things worse with its curfew decisions,” says Luis Sanmartín, Cuenca Association of Bars & Restaurants board member. Sanmartín...
Lunes, 6/7/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Otras cosas – Titular – 300 becarios están dejados a su suerte (300 scholars are left to their own devices) – At least 300 scholarship winners are stranded in various universities around the world. The government has not paid their manutención ni colegiatura (living stipend nor tuition),...
By Jessica Craig I’ve been stranded in Kenya since March, trying to get a “repatriation” flight to return home to the United States. I was finally able to book a flight but I’m still not sure I’ll be able to board at the scheduled departure time – a week from Saturday. Not only are cancellations...
Finance Minister Richard Martinez reported Monday that a deal has been reached with bondholders to renegotiate Ecuador’s debt and cut outstanding capital payments and extend maturities on the country’s bonds. In a presentation shown to reporters, the cash-strapped government said the deal with institutional holders of its roughly $17.4 billion in outstanding sovereign bonds would...
Pan American Health Organization advisor and Quito epidemiologist Catalina Yépez says that the Covid-19 virus is probably here to stay. “When an approved vaccine is widely available, there will be a drop in cases but this could be a year or two,” she says. “Even then, estimates are that less than 40 percent of the...
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