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By Eva Vergara and Daniel Politi President Gabriel Boric of Chile is attempting to relaunch an administration that has plunged in popularity less than two months since he made headlines around the world for becoming the country’s youngest president and a possible symbol for a resurgent left wing in South America. As opinion polls show...
One person died and three more were injured Saturday in Quito when an intense hail storm collapsed the roof of an athletic facility. The hail, centered in the city’s northern neighborhoods, covered gardens, sidewalks and patios and stranded drivers on low-lying streets. The ECU 911 emergency call center received more than a hundred calls, most...
For Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, working at the office is now a relic of the past. In an interview with Time magazine Sunday, Chesky said he believes the office is “an anachronistic form” that’s “from a pre-digital age.” His comments come after Airbnb announced earlier this week that it will let employees work remotely forever...
By Saleem H. Ali The allure of the Galapagos Islands as the cradle of Darwin’s insights on natural selection remains a major draw for scientists to the volcanic archipelago. Located less than a thousand miles west of the South American mainland, this exotic evolutionary outpost is at a “goldilocks distance” from the mainland : close...
Two-thirds of Ecuadorians say their personal economic situation is worse than it was a year ago, with 82% blaming it on the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost as many, 63 percent, believe that most of their elected officials are corrupt. In the latest Political Culture of Democracy in Ecuador and in the Americas, conducted by Vanderbilt University,...
By Liam Higgins A graduate school research project shows that expats living in small towns and rural areas of Ecuador are more vulnerable to serious crime than those living in cities. The research, by University of Edinburgh doctoral student Kelly Fowler, focuses on expats in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama and Spain. “What we found is...
By Craig Murray Texaco Oil operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil, polluting more than 800,000 hectares. It is one of the worst ecological disasters in history — 30 times greater...
Jueves, 5/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Festival de la trucha reactivará a Sayausí (Trout festival will reactivate Sayausí) – The first trout festival will be this sábado from 9-17:00 in the parish center of Sayausí. It is being organized by a group of piscicultores (fish farmers – your word for the day) and will...
The Chilean soccer federation asked FIFA to investigate its claim that Ecuador player Byron Castillo is actually Colombian and not entitled to have played in qualifying games. The complaint comes more than one month after South American qualifying ended and Ecuador was drawn into a group with host nation Qatar, the Netherlands and Senegal. “FIFA...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday urged the United States to boost investment in Central America to help curb migration, saying not enough had been done. “Almost nothing has been invested so far except to build walls that doesn’t work,” Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference, making reference to prior U.S. commitments...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, to allow representatives of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas. In a phone conversation with Biden Friday, Lopez Obrador confirmed his country’s participation in the event, while proposing “that all the countries of the Americas receive...
National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori has 10 days to defend herself against charges that she failed to carry out her executive duties. The commission assigned to investigate Llori is holding hearings this week based on complaints filed by Social Christian Assemblyman Cristian Esteban Torres. Torres claims Llori failed to allow consideration of procedural changes to...
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