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Lunes, 19/12/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – ¡Tricampeones! (Triple champions!) – Argentina won the Mundial for the 3d time. The first two times were in 1978 y 1986. <It’s still sports so if you weren’t watching the game like 99% of your fellow Cuencanos, you’re on your own.> Especial – De El Mercurio...
President Guillermo Lasso will meet with President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. Monday to discuss security and other issue. The meeting follows weekend comments by Lasso criticizing Ecuadorian judges who released drug gang leaders and a speech by U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador claiming that the police as well as elected Ecuadorian officials have been corrupted...
Although the International Monetary Fund says Ecuador has made economic progress in recent years, it says more remains to be done if the country is to receive IMF loans in the future. IMF director Kristalina Georgieva made the comments Friday when she announced the release of $700 million to the country’s Finance Ministry. “Ecuador has...
By Stephen Vargha A three-month long art exhibit just opened up in Cuenca that Boris Ordóñez considers to be the most important one his curated gallery, OFF Arte Contemporáneo, has ever had. “Of all of the artists that have been exhibited here, Garry is in a class all by himself,” said Boris. “Making it even...
By Bernd Debusmann, Jr. Noé was somewhere on the outskirts of the gritty southern Mexican city of Tapachula when he realised how difficult his journey to a new life in the US would be. Just days after crossing the border from Guatemala, the meagre supplies in Noé’s small rucksack had dwindled, and he had gone...
You may have heard of organizations like Doctors Without Borders or Engineers Without Borders but a newer organization out of Toronto is putting an artistic spin on this concept. Photographers Without Borders is a not-for-profit that aims to capture the stories of people and charities that are making the world a better place. “A lot...
By Marco Aquino Pressure rose on Peru’s fledgling government Friday as two cabinet members resigned following deadly protests that have rocked the country since former President Pedro Castillo’s removal from office and arrest last week. Education Minister Patricia Correa and Culture Minister Jair Perez announced their resignations on Twitter, citing the deaths of individuals during...
The National Assembly has overwhelming approved President Guillermo Lasso’s proposal to allow the country’s armed forces to assist police in the fight against organized crime. The 118 to 2 vote orders the formation of a constitutional revision commission to change the constitution to allow the use of the military in some law enforcement functions. Assemblywoman...
An alleged leader of the Los Choneros criminal gang was back in prison Thursday night just hours after a Guayaquil judge granted his release. Junior Roldán, alias “JR”, was arrested along with 29 others, many of them from opposition gangs who planned to kill him, National Police say. According to Interior Minister Juan Zapata, police...
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas met with President Guillermo Lasso Monday to discuss a binational partnership to combat transnational crime. The talks centered on measures to prevent the transport of illegal drugs from Ecuador to Europe and the U.S., but also covered cybersecurity and migration issues. “We are pleased to work with the...
By Chris Hedges During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts Proust’s work. He wrote it as he was dying; in...
Miércoles, 14/12/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del martes, 13/12: La Bienal tiene lista su temática (The Biennial has its theme ready) – The theme for the decimosexta (16th) edition of the Bienal de Cuenca is “Quizá mañana” (Maybe tomorrow) <That’s what your plumber tells you when you ask when he...
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