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Thirty people were arrested Wednesday night and early Thursday, including Wilman Terán, president of Ecuador’s Judiciary Council. Other arrests included the former head of the country’s prison system, prison guards, prosecutors, police officers, judges and a retired general. Called Operation Metastasis by the Attorney General’s office, suspects believed to have protected drug gangs and cartels...
Author’s note: During the holiday season I will write columns on personal issues and resume the series of medical issues in 2024. By Garnett Stewart In the coming weeks, it’s very important to keep an eye on your neighbors. It’s a different type of Alert Neighborhood Watch! Why do I call it the “Alert Neighborhood...
Miércoles, 13/12/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – El origen de la vida en museo interactivo (The origin of life in an interactive museum) – The Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNAE) opened its Museo Cosmos Educativo where its exhibits teach about the universe, life, and la Tierra (the Earth – your word for the day. A...
The Andean Community Commission (CAN), made up of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, is moving forward with a plan to interconnect their respective electrical grids. The project takes on new urgency as electric providers in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia have been forced to impose electrical blackouts in recent months due severe drought. Ecuador, Colombia and...
By Lia Holland and Jade Pfaefflin Bounds Three in ten Americans read digital books. Whether they’re accessing online textbooks or checking out the latest bestselling e-book from the public library, the majority of these readers are subject to both the greed of Big Publishing and the priorities of Big Tech. In fact, Amazon’s Kindle held...
Quito has become the sixth capital city in South America with a subway rail system when it resumed operations on December 1. The system, called the Metro, had officially been inaugurated on December 21, 2022, with passenger services beginning in May 2023, but technical problems and political disputes shut the line down again after only...
Although there will be no electricity blackouts for the Christmas and New Years holidays, Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy is cancelling an earlier plan to suspend blackouts from December 15 to January 2. In addition, the ministry said it will increase blackout periods from two to three hours. Energy Minister Andrea Arrobo blames the change on...
By Carolina Mella Only a few hours passed between Karol Noboa learning about the death threat and her getting on a plane, bound for exile. For the 28-year-old Ecuadorian journalist, those hours felt like days. She said goodbye to the country, where she had worked as a reporter for eight years, leaving her family and...
By Umair Irfan For centuries, off the coast of what’s now Peru and Ecuador, fishers noticed that every few years, around Christmas, the sea surface warmed up. Ordinarily, a chilly swirl of currents would churn up nutrients that feed wildlife near the surface, yielding a bountiful catch. The arrival of warm water slowed the currents, and...
Lunes, 11/12/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – ‘Musa Takina’, una huella ecuatoriana en Cuenca (‘Musa Takina’, an Ecuadorian imprint in Cuenca) – The ‘Musa Takina’ gallery shows creations from 80 craftspeople from different provinces in Ecuador. The business was developed with a model of Fair Trade and Circular Economy which promotes the optimization of resources...
By Liam Higgins Despite its small size, Ecuador hosts the fourth greatest number of foreign refugees in the world. The United Nations estimates the country is home to 475,000 Venezuelans and 58,000 Colombians who have fled their home countries due to economic and security crises. Only Colombia, Peru and the United States rank ahead of...
Argentina’s new president has vowed to deliver economic “shock treatment” in his first speech after formally taking office. Javier Milei warned Argentines “there is no money” and recommitted to a program of harsh austerity measures. The populist outsider won a surprise election victory in November with radical pledges to overhaul the South American nation’s ailing...
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