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The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has issued an arrest warrant for Germán Cáceres, wanted in the police academy murder of his wife, María Belén Bernal. Cáceres has been a fugitive since September 13, when Bernal was reported missing. It is believed Cáceres fled the country across the Colombian border. According to investigators, Bernal was...
President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed expectations in Brazil’s election Sunday, proving that the far-right wave he rode to power four years ago remains a force as he fought his way into a runoff against leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The most-trusted opinion polls had indicated that Lula was far out front, suggesting he...
By Nelson Bocanegra With a machete across his chest, sugar cane worker Aldemar Moreno guards the entrance to the farm where he has been employed for 23 years, ready to defend it from land occupations by groups indigenous and others that have exploded in Colombia. . “We have made the decision that if to defend...
A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by a group of hackers from military and police agencies across several Latin American countries, Mexico’s president confirmed Friday. In statements, the hackers claim their actions are aimed revealing government suppression of indigenous poopulations. The acknowledgement of the hack by President...
Viernes, 30/9/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Libro sobre el uso de plantas medicinas (Book on the use of medicinal plants) – The Hogar Miguel León has published “Botica de la abuela,” a book on medicinal plants based on the accounts of its residents. In 2019 the Hogar started a project to activate their green...
By Eric Schlosser The 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense operates a dozen central storage facilities for nuclear weapons. Known as “Object S” sites and scattered across the Russian Federation, they contain thousands of nuclear warheads and hydrogen bombs with a wide variety of explosive yields. For the past three months, President...
By Joshua Hawkins Researchers with the University of Oxford and Google Deepmind have shared a chilling warning in a new paper. Published in AI Magazine last month, the paper claims that the threat of AI is greater than previously believed. It’s so great, in fact, that artificial intelligence is likely to one day rise up...
More than 200 delegates from 33 countries are in Cuenca for the 14th Ministerial Forum on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the sponsor, the United Nations Development Program, attendees include at least four presidents, in addition to Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso. The forum, the first to be held since the beginning of...
In response to demands by Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities President Leonidas Iza that the government pay reparations to those killed and injured during the June strike, Government Minister Franscsco Jiménez says that all injured parties, not just strikers, should be compensated. “We cannot agree to provide support to just one group of those injured during...
On the anniversary of the most deadly prison riot in Ecuador history, representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations say little progress has been made to improve security conditions within the country’s prison system. On Tuesday, a year after 125 inmates died in a riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in...
Miércoles, 28/9/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Las heroínas del Ecuador en cuentos ilustrados (The heroines of Ecuador in illustrated stories) – Priscila Delgado has written a book, “Donde están nuestras heroínas” (Where are our heroines) about Ecuadorian women whose lives and successes are little known in Ecuador. She picked 3 women, María Chiquinquirá Diáz,...
By Richard Ingle Two weeks ago, a talk radio show host read a Cuenca Citizen Guard report about an incident involving a foreign resident in Parque Calderon. The guard noticed an elderly man who had been holding on to the wrought iron fence surrounding the Abdon Calderon statue for an unusually long period of time....
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