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Foreign residents who want to vote in the 2021 national election will be required to register in person with the National Electoral Council (CNE). The registration requirement is a change from the 2009 rule that automatically registered foreigners to vote after they had obtained a cedula and been in the country for five years. “We...
By Live Science staff The last decade ushered in some truly revolutionary advances in science, from the discovery of the Higgs boson to the use of CRISPR for Sci-Fi esque gene editing. But what are some of the biggest breakthroughs still to come? Live Science asked several experts in their field what discoveries, techniques and...
Miércoles, 1/1/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Otras cosas – Titular – El 2020 será un año de desafíos (2020 will be a year of challenges) – 3 key challenges for the 2020’s will be in the areas of the economy and social issues, the environment, and politics. Tree census -Biologist Gustavo Morejón created the...
I connect easily with most animals. I set them at ease with body language and various sounds I make with my mouth. Sometimes, I can win over an aggressive dog, sometimes not. I don’t press encounters with animals that exhibit possibly dangerous behaviors. A large animal can hurt you even if it’s simply startled and...
Martes, 31/12/2019 Hola, Todos – Feliz Año Nuevo! Actividades – Nada, nada, nada. <Besides jumping over burning dummies stuffed with fireworks or sawdust (which are illegal to sell) and insuring you won’t have any more kids.> Otras cosas – Titular – Alegría para recibir al 2020 (Joy to receive 2020) – Lots of people are...
I’m celebrating my third New Year’s in Ecuador. This was my first on the beach, though. The other two were in Cuenca and my experiences there seem like a kid’s birthday party compared the coastal festivities. The first year we went to El Centro. We ate dinner, bought fireworks, and then shot them off on...
By David Wallace-Wells For once, the climate news might be better than you thought. It’s certainly better than I’ve thought. You may not have noticed it, amid the flood of bad news about the “Emissions Gap” and the collapse of the COP25 climate conference in Madrid, but over the last few weeks a new narrative...
Lunes, 30/12/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Street singer – Darwin Sánchez visits Cuenca from Manabí every 5 months to sing Julio Jaramillo songs on Sucre y Benigno Malo. Seasonal products – Also on Sucre y Benigno Malo, 28 members of the Asociación 6 de diciembre are selling seasonal products...
Although the National Assembly mandated a new tax on plastic bags for 2020, it will be at least 90 days before the tax is collected at grocery stores, markets and tiendas. In the meantime, Ecuador’s Internal Revenue Service (SRI) must resolve such questions as whether the tax will apply equally to all bags regardless of...
By Jen Rose Smith Parisian bridges are weighted down with copycat “love locks,” while visitors crowd cheek-to-jowl into Barcelona churches and Dubrovnik’s historic center. In Italy, attempts to manage the impact of tourism range from segregating visitors to fines for flip-flops. In Amsterdam, stiff new tourist taxes have been applied. As a glut of anxious...
The National Institute of Meteorology (Inamhi) is warning residents of the inter-mountain valley to protect themselves from high levels of ultraviolet radiation. The agency reported that UV levels considered “high” and “extremely high” were recorded in Quito, Loja and Cuenca on Thursday and Friday. “UV readings of 8 to 12 may continue through the weekend...
By David Morrill Give Vadim Avdeev two minutes and he can steal your cell phone number and call you from it. Give him five and he can shut down the accounts of thousands of Cuenca internet and utility customers and erase any evidence that they ever existed. With a little more time, he can grant...
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