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By Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the highly anticipated July election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won. The warrant was issued...
Water rationing will begin within a matter of days, possibly this week, Cuenca Mayor Cristián Zamora said Monday. “The outage periods will be from six to eight hours a day,” he said. “These could be extended, depending on conditions at our reservoirs.” At a morning press conference, Zamora said he planned to announce the beginning...
While forest fires continue to burn in Azuay, Loja and Cotopaxi Provinces, firefighters are slowly gaining control thanks to air support, the country’s Risk Management Office reports. “We are making progress in containing the Quilanga and San Fernando fires but we continue our battle with others,” the office said in a Sunday statement. Azuay Province...
By Caity Weaver I have good news and I have bad news. Actually, I have crazy news and I have bad news. Actually, all the news I have is bad, but some of it is also crazy. Before you become totally freaked out, all the news I’m describing here is about pennies; it’s nothing life...
By Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app after the company refused to comply with a judge’s order. X missed a deadline imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to name...
President Daniel Noboa Friday extended for another 30 days the state of emergency in six provinces and one canton given the high level of criminal violence. Noboa’s decree extended the measure he ordered July 2 in Los Rios, Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabi, and El Oro, as well as in the Amazonian province of Orellana and...
Only one political alliance was announced Friday, the last day parties could form partnerships ahead of the February 2025 election. The alliance between Citizens’ Revolution (RC) and Total Renewal (RETO) reduced the number of presidential candidates from 17 to 16. RC and RETO did not say how they would consolidate the new presidential ticket. Currently,...
Viernes, 30/8/2024 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del jueves, 29/8 (1 article): Nulti tiene listo un festival dominical (Nulti is ready for a Sunday festival) – The El Tablón community in Nulti Parish is organizing the fifth cuy festival el domingo, 1/9 starting a las 8:00 with an athletic contest and performances...
By Christopher Newton With access to artificial intelligence increasing rapidly, some of Latin America’s organized crime groups have begun wielding it for criminal gain. Though artificial intelligence (AI) has long been of interest in the worlds of science and science fiction, the release of ChatGPT in 2022 made a form of AI known as large...
Large wildfires burned out of control Thursday night in San Fernando, Nabón, Susudel and Oña. The fires in Azuay Province, which have consumed hundreds of hectares, were located in mountainous terrain difficult to reach by firefighters, according to the Cuenca Risk Management office. An even larger fire, in Quilanga canton of Loja Province, was only...
By Stephen Vargha With a heated political season upon us, many U.S. citizens in Cuenca are concerned about their voter registration. Others want to register to have their voices heard on November 5. Then, there are those who are concerned about being eligible to vote this November. “I just wanted to make sure my registration...
By Mat DiSalvo El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been an outspoken in his advocacy for Bitcoin. While he has long battled with critics, he has now admitted that his Bitcoin experiment has not gone exactly as planned. In an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, the “world’s coolest dictator” — as Bukele once described...
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