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The United States and the European Union know the real winner of Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela, according to a Norwegian technology expert. “They had the data even before the Venezuela election committee declared [Nicolas] Maduro the winner,” says Karsten Sørensen, director of a multi-university technology center in Oslo. When asked who won, Sørensen said...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport. By Stephen Vargha Cuenca has a long history of aviation that began on November 4, 1920, when Italian pilot Elia Liut landed his small twin-engine plane at the Jericó field, in Narancay. That was the first flight over the...
Lunes, 29/7/2024 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del sábado, 27/7 (3 articles<): Tributo sinfónico al rock (Symphonic tribute to rock) – The Orquesta Sinfónica and the Coro Polifónico of the U. of Cuenca will present a Tribute Sinfónico-Coral del Rock el viernes, 2/8 in the Teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz. They will play...
By Frances Robles The United States and countries around the world denounced the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, in which the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, declared victory in the face of accusations of widespread fraud. Notably, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil and a longtime leader within the region’s leftist movement, released a...
“Show me the signed contracts,” Cuenca Mayor Cristian Zamora demanded Friday following the announcement by the Transportation Ministry that it will construct four overpasses on the Cuenca-to-Azogues autopista. “If I see proof this will happen, I will celebrate, but not before. Otherwise, I am reminded that we are entering the election season when promises are...
By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Frances Robles and Julie Turkewitz Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, was declared the winner of the country’s tumultuous presidential election early Monday, despite enormous momentum from an opposition movement that had been convinced this was the year it would oust Mr. Maduro’s socialist-inspired party. The vote was riddled with irregularities, and citizens...
By Vanessa Bauza Once underappreciated, mangroves are having a moment. From global initiatives to community-led efforts, work to conserve these climate superstars is gaining traction. Now, a landmark US$ 45.9 million project aims to give Ecuador’s degraded mangroves a new lease on life, local news reported. The six-year project to protect and restore mangroves in...
By Carla Gloria Colomé The streets in Cuba look empty. Dozens of residents in every neighborhood have shut the door to their homes for the last time. Long lines in the Havana airport to board a flight to Nicaragua grow by the day. Some time ago, there was talk of a stampede, a collective fever...
Viernes, 26/7/2024 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Presentación de la obra “Crime Brulé” (Presentation of the play “Crime Brulé”) – “Crime Brulé,” the new work by dramaturgo (playwright – your more or less useless word for the day unless you are one) Martín Peña Vázquez will be performed on el 31/7 and el 1/8 a...
By Sibi Arasu and Seth Bornstein After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all...
Following hours of protest at government headquarters on Parque Calderon, the Social Security Institute and Health Ministry announced Thursday night it will make short-term payments to maintain dialysis treatment for local kidney disease patients. A crowd of about 100, mostly patients, their family and friends, gathered early Thursday at the government building and the Parque...
By Jeff Van Pelt Why should you strive to give exceptional customer service? Why not just good? I will focus mainly on restaurants, but this advice applies to most kinds of businesses. And lest I be accused of being negative about Ecuador, I point out that I first wrote this article for a publication in...
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