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I don’t remember not knowing about the Holocaust. My father, Rolf Gompertz escaped from Nazi Germany with his parents. They came to the U.S. in his eleventh year after a childhood marked by state-sanctioned violence and persecution. His parents lost everything except their lives yet considered themselves lucky. The Gompertz family tree had roots in...
Viernes, 27/12/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Del cuerpo del periodico – Destinos para el fin de semana (Weekend Destinations) – San Fernando – martes, 31/12 – 17:00: show of monigotes and comparsas; 18:00: comparsas parade; 19:00: comparsas and monigotes contests; 21:00: stage show with Los Lideres and dancing; 24:00: fireworks. Paute – sábado –...
The Ministry of Labor announced Friday afternoon that Ecuador’s minimum wage will increase by $6 January 1, 2020. The new rate will be $400 a month. The ministry says that a larger increase is unwarranted given the annual inflation rate of less than one percent. The new rate was announced after talks between employer representatives...
By Aja Romano For a long time now, the cross-generational dialogue between baby boomers and millennials has been built atop several recurring themes. Boomers — the generation born roughly between 1946 and 1965 — scoff that millennials expect “participation trophies” for doing the bare minimum. Millennials say boomers are “out of touch.” Millennials (born roughly...
Mayor Pedro Palacios said Thursday that live tests of Cuenca’s Tranvía de los Cuatros Rios will begin soon and that a fare will be determined in January. Although Palacios did not specify a date when tests will begin, the director of tram operations says it will be in late January or February. In recent weeks,...
Jueves, 26/12/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Collective show – 14 artists from El Puente Roto are having a show in the Quinta Bolívar in Gapal. Map of cultural attractions – The El Vado Committee has published a map of attractions in the area and along the vehicular and pedestrian...
A Court of Justice judge in Quito has ordered that Pichincha Prefect Paola Pabón be released from preventive detention while she awaits trial on charges of rebellion stemming from the October protests. In her Tuesday ruling, Judge Patlova Guerra said that the allegations against Pabón, a supporter of former president Rafael Correa, were “vague and...
By Lara Merling Over the past year, a rebranded International Monetary Fund (IMF) has returned to Latin America with promises of loan agreements that would be different than the dreaded “structural adjustment program” of the past. Behind statements about inclusive growth and protecting the most vulnerable, are policies similar to the structural adjustments of the...
Following a recent visit to Ecuador, independent United Nations human rights experts concluded that the government should step up efforts to enforce the law and implement plans to end racial discrimination suffered by Afro-Ecuadorians and people of African descent. “People are suffering particularly in their ability to access justice, security, land, clean water, education, healthcare,...
Cuenca’s big Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade lived up to expectations Tuesday with an estimated 130,000 participants and onlookers gathering for the nine-hour march down Calle Simon Bolivar. As usual, children were the highlight of the day. Katy Miller, one of the event organizers, estimated that as many as 10,000 kids, ranging from new-borns...
By Rob Bell There are at least two things about Ecuador that I, as a U.S. expat, have difficulty understanding and getting used to. It seems to me that Ecuadorians are extremely fatalistic about what they expect from their elected government officials, and from their fellow Ecuadorians. Let’s talk about cars (and trucks and buses)...
Martes, 24/12/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Cine – “Jumanji, el siguiente nivel” will open mañana in Ecuadorian theaters. Otras cosas – Titular – Pase del Niño es el símbolo de Navidad (Pase del Niño is the Christmas symbol) – Last night, there was the ceremony of changing the padrinazgo...
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