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Lessons from the private sector can help us manage our families in a more business-like manner. The formula is simple: Business is deliberate. Deliberate is effective. Deliberate + Effective = Defective. The first step toward more business-like parenting is to look in the mirror and wipe it clean. If you can’t be both lean and mean,...
There has been no progress in efforts to reconcile the positions of Ecuador’s indigenous movement and the government since the two sides agreed to talk October 13, ending 10 days of nationwide protests. “There have been no meetings since October 24,” according to Jaime Vargas, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie)....
Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series about the impact of human meat consumption on global climate crisis and strategies to deal with it. To read parts one and two, click here and here. By John Keeble Dogs and cats were put on the Earth to show us that animals have emotions,...
National Assembly members representing five political parties are asking President Lenin Moreno to withdraw his proposal for economic reform. The assembly members say they are concerned that the proposal, called the Economic Growth Law, is too large to be considered within the 30 days required by executive order and that it may be unconstitutional. “This...
The owner of a property on Calle Hermano Miguel has been ordered to rebuild an historic house he demolished to make way for a parking lot. In addition, Cuenca resident Vicente Querubín Calle was ordered to pay a fine of 50 basic salaries, or about $20,000, by a municipal administrative court. According to the Cuenca...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series about the global climate crisis and strategies to deal with it. Click, to read part one. By John Keeble I used to know some thoroughly loathsome people who bought tiny lambs in the spring of the English countryside. They gave them names, treated them as...
By Caitlin Johnstone There has been a military coup in Bolivia backed by violent right-wing rioters and the U.S. government, but you’d hardly know this from any of the mainstream media headlines. “Bolivian President Evo Morales steps down following accusations of election fraud” proclaims CNN. “Bolivia’s Morales resigns amid scathing election report, rising protests” reports...
Strong thunderstorms rolled through Cuenca Tuesday afternoon, flooding several low-lying neighborhoods and dropping more than an inch of hail in some locations. The flooding affected streets in the Kennedy, Ochoa León, Paramarca and Ricaurte sectors and caused minor damage to several houses, according to Cuenca EMT personnel. Several streets were briefly closed due to landslides....
President Lenin Moreno’s massive economic reform law appears to be dead on arrival in Ecuador’s National Assembly and most legislators say there may be no way to fix it. Many claim that, by its sheer size, the plan is unconstitutional. The 190-page “Economic Growth Law” document contains 442 articles and provisions and requires the reorganization...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series about the impact of the human diet on the global climate crisis and strategies to deal with it. By John Keeble Meat eating’s damage to global climates, forests and wildlife is forcing radical control measures onto political agendas – including criminalising it and imposing penally-high...
Cuenca’s transportation office has reopened Padre Aguirre to vehicular traffic between Calles President Córdova and Sucre. The street, which runs besides San Francisco Plaza and the flower market, had served as a pedestrian-only mall for more than a year. Officials said the street would remain open to traffic until December 31 when a a decision...
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda The Chilean government has agreed to write a new constitution to replace one dating back to the Pinochet dictatorship, bowing to demands of protesters who have taken to the streets in often violent demonstrations in recent weeks. Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said the president, cabinet members and political allies had...
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