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By Dylan Baddour For months, Jose Amaya held out hope that his country would change. Even as his friends, family and neighbours abandoned Venezuela, with its hunger and violence, he refused to leave his home, his car and the only life he ever knew in the city of Maracaibo. But earlier this month Ecuador, about...
Looking after the environment is paying off in Ecuador, at least for public transport users in the business hub of Guayaquil. A new scheme aimed at combating garbage and pollution allows people to exchange recyclable plastic bottles for money to buy bus tickets. The port city, in Ecuador’s southwest, is the second most populous city...
By Paul Amos The Ironman 70.3 Ecuador began in Manta in 2015 and every year since has drawn over 1,200 athletes from all over the world. Despite the 7.8 magnitude earthquake near Manta in April, 2016, the race went on as scheduled. The Ironman Foundation, which supports communities in which Ironman events are held worldwide,...
Jueves, 22/8/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Jueves Cine – There will be 20 sessions of Thursday Film until 26/12. 18 full-length Ecuadorian films will be screened, all in sala 5 of the old Escuela Central. The 2nd film was today at 19:00 and was in kichwa. Upcoming films include...
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest is an “international crisis” that needs to top the agenda at this weekend’s G7 summit. “Our house is burning,” he tweeted. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro responded by accusing Macron of using the issue for “political gain”. He said calls to...
Environmental activists who staged a sit-in last week at the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Quito say the fight to stop oil and mining projects in Ecuador is just beginning. Specifically, the protesters known collectively as the Yasunidos, were demanding that the CNE allow a national referendum on oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park,...
By Sylvester Grahame I had lunch with a friend last week at Bento Japanese Lunchbox on Mariscal Sucre. When Michael noticed that Matthew Hart was the chef she remarked, “I wish I could play guitar and cook as well as he can.” I assured her she just might be able to if she practices hour...
Miércoles, 21/8/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Concierto – Polish pianist, Raphael Alexandre Lustchevsky, will perform el sábado a las 19:00 in the teatro Sucre. Free. Danza – The piece “Criaturas del Olvido” will premier el 4 & 5/9 with both performances at 20:00 in the sala Alfonso Carrasco. Del...
By Deborah DuBoff There are moments that we have as expats in Ecuador when we profoundly realize the abundance that we came from and we are inspired to donate time or money or share the skills and knowledge that we came here with. Johanna and Chris Nervick came to Cotacachi, Ecuador from the U.S. for...
Although the next national election is a year-and-a-half away, two of the leading candidates to succeed Lenin Moreno as president are busy laying the groundwork for their campaigns. In recent weeks, former Guayaquil mayor Jaime Nebot of the Social Democratic party and Guillermo Lasso of CREO, have been holding strategy meetings with elected and party...
Martes, 20/8/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Jueves cine – The Dirección de Cultura de la Municipalidad de Cuenca (Culture Directorate of the Municipality of Cuenca) will present the 2nd edition of Thursday Cine el próximo jueves. During the season 17 Ecuadorian films will be shown, both fiction and documentals....
Ecuador’s long delayed mobile wallet – Bimo for short – will be available to the public in September but some financial experts question whether it will accomplish its original objective of providing banking services to the “unbanked.” The banking app, to be managed by private banks, will allow those with cell phones to make cashless...
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