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The government is taking advantage of the historic collapse of oil prices to eliminate most subsidies for gasoline and diesel fuel. Energy Minister René Ortiz made the announcement Monday as oil prices briefly dropped below zero due to a lack of international storage capacity. “Because prices have dropped below our subsidy levels this is a...
Lunes, 20/4/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Museos Nacionales en línea – You can access the archeological, ethnographic, and artistic collections of 14 national museums in 11 cities at http://www.museos.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/redmuseos. Writing contest – PEN-Ecuador is organizing the first Cuento PEN-Ecuador 2020 contest. The contest is open to Ecuadorian authors living...
By Ramiro Crespo and Daniela Cordero As the coronavirus spreads through Ecuador and the rest of Latin America, stories of the impact of the disease are also spreading worldwide through the media. Unfortunately, some of those stories are exaggerated, false, or actually manipulated by political forces outside of these countries. On the ground sources are...
By Niclas Rolander Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to stabilize. “We’re on a sort...
Some call is the power of prayer, or the law of attraction, or visualization, or the power of intention, or even, for you skeptics, the placebo effect. Call it what you will, there is little argument that positive attitudes yield positive results. Expressing gratitude is a fundamental cornerstone of many philosophies. Whether it is saying...
Ecuador has reached a deal with the holders of nearly $20 billion in sovereign bonds to delay interest payments through August, as a plunge in oil prices and the coronavirus outbreak weigh on public finances, the Finance Ministry said on Friday. The Andean country last week asked creditors to delay the payments on nine bonds...
Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner said Friday that Ecuador’s sacrifices to overcome the Covid-19 virus are paying off. “This has been a painful period for the country but we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel,” he said in a television address. “In many provinces, recoveries from the coronavirus outnumber new cases...
Viernes, 17/4/2020 Hola, Todos – Short issue today. Actividades – De la pagina cultural – OSC – The second concert of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will perform sábado a las 18:00 and will include the children’s opera, “El Quinde, el Fuego y el Gigante” in kichwa, by Jorge Oviedo Jarmillo. Go to https://www.youtube.com/user/sinfonicacuenca. Otras...
Ecuadorians who suffer chronic illnesses such as cancer and kidney failure are struggling to get treatment amid the coronavirus pandemic as basic supplies go short and hospitals suspend some services to reduce further infections, according to interviews with officials and relatives of patients. Doctors say the problem has reached critical proportions in Guayaquil, the country’s...
Although the government says Covid-19 is only one of the factors responsible for the soaring death rate in Guayaquil and Guayas Province, local officials disagree. “The number of deaths here is of historic proportions and there is only one explanation, and that’s the coronavirus,” says Guayaquil doctor Gustavo Quinde. On Thursday, Jorge Wated director of...
Jueves, 16/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Teleteatro – Actress Juana Guarderas will present “Confesiones de una damisela morlaca y virginal en cuarentena” (Confessions of a morlaca and virginal damsel in quarantine) on Zoom este sábado a las 21:30. Juana Guarderas is known for playing “Abrilia,” the morlaca <a Cuencanan...
Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, the STAT News Service reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial. The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and...
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