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Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat reports that 2024 is one of the “worst fire years on record,” with more than 23,000 hectares going up in smoke. Loja Province has suffered the most damage, with 14,600 hectares burned while 4,487 and 3,140 hectares, respectively, have been consumed in Azuay and Pichincha Provinces. Risk Management reports that some...
By Liam Higgins While Cuenca recorded its 65th day without significant rainfall Sunday, the current drought is far from the city’s worst. A check of weather records shows at least 20 drought years since 1950, including four classified as “extreme.” During ten droughts in the last 74 years, the city has been forced to ration...
By Elise Cutts Hair loss isn’t life-threatening, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be life-changing. For many people, losing hair is tantamount to losing themselves. “People go through grieving,” says geneticist Angela Christiano of Cornell University. “It’s grieving your appearance… for many people, it’s grieving identity.” Hair loss is incredibly common. According to the...
There will be a nationwide overnight power blackout Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the government announced Sunday morning. According to a presidential office statement, the blackout will begin at 10 p.m. Wednesday and end at 6 a.m. Thursday for “preventive maintenance to electricity distribution networks.” A follow-up statement said the work was necessary to...
The country’s ongoing drought is not only threatening hydroelectric generation and drinking water supplies but agricultural production as well. Farmers across the country say that due to the lack of rain, local irrigation systems and farm holding ponds are going dry. “While the emphasis has been on electricity and potable water supplies, the drought is...
Although military control of prisons has drastically reduced the number of killings within the country’s prisons, it has put administrators at greater risk. The murder of Guayaquil Litoral Penitentiary director María Daniela Icaza earlier this week was the third this year and the second within 10 days. Icaza was driving home from her prison office...
By Wilfredo Miranda The Nicaraguan regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, ordered their loyal Parliament on Wednesday to urgently reform the Cyber Crime Law, better known as the gag law. The cornerstone of the reform are tougher penalties for offenses and the provision that Nicaragua can prosecute “cyber crimes”...
The Emre Bey power generation barge began producing electricity Thursday following a two week delay due to anchoring problems in the Guayas River. The diesel-powered barge is producing 101.3 megawatts and will undergo a series of tests in its first week of operation. The barge, owned by the Turkish company Karpowership, is anchored temporarily at...
By Latin American Post staff Illegal mining continues to ravage Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, with over 1,400 hectares of land destroyed. As Latin American countries grapple with similar crises, the environmental and social costs are mounting. How can they balance protection with economic needs? Illegal gold mining is leaving a devastating mark on Ecuador’s Amazon, specifically...
By Brian Handwerk Chicken soup. Half a grapefruit. Steaming hot tea. When you’re sick everyone from grandma to the next-door neighbor has a helpful suggestion for food that will put you on the road to recovery. What should we make of this wisdom — do some foods really help us feel better, or even actually...
Argentine protesters clashed with police outside the country’s Congress on Wednesday, after lower house lawmakers narrowly upheld a veto of a planned hike to pensions by right-wing President Javier Milei. The chamber of deputies voted 153 in favor of the pension hike with 87 against it, falling just short of the two-thirds needed to approve...
By Liam Higgins Younger Ecuadorian voters are paying little attention to the upcoming political campaign, says University of Guayaquil political science professor Fernando Manzano. “As a group, young people are more disconnected than I’ve ever seen them,” he said. “They don’t see anything in the current political process that really affects them.” In a recent...
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Week of September 08
Expert Warns: Ecuador May Face Extended Blackouts Without Immediate Action.
President Noboa Highlights Need for Legislative Support in Manabí Amid Key Infrastructure Deliveries.
Travel time between Guayaquil and Cuenca could be reduced by at least one hour with a new highway.
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