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By Tatiana Arias and Helen Regan Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as the world’s largest rainforest acts as a key buffer against the climate crisis. It was the first time in more than a...
By Florantonia Singer A few weeks ago, social media users celebrated the fact that the traditional cachapa — a corn cake cooked on a budare [griddle] and stuffed with fresh cheese — had triumphed in MasterChef Australia. This comfort food was prepared by a Venezuelan contestant, one of the seven million who have left the...
Citizens Revolution presidential candidate Luisa González responded Monday to charges that a Correista government would abandon the U.S. dollar as Ecuador’s official currency. “Our policy is to support dollar, as do the majority of Ecuadorians,” she said. “There are absolutely no plans to de-dollarize.” González’s reaction followed the release of a video in which her...
Lunes, 7/8/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Concierto por Día de la Cultura (Concert for Culture Day) – The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will perform a concert el miércoles, 9/8 a las 20:00 in the Teatro Casa de la Cultura to commemorate the Día de la Cultura. The concert will premier Ecuadorian compositions that exalt...
By Andrea Michelson Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Medicine and former president of the American Heart Association, is not interested in living longer just for the sake of it. “I’m less interested in the lifespan and more interested in the healthspan,” he told Insider. While lifespan simply sums up how many years...
The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$500 million development policy loan for Ecuador to support government efforts to achieve inclusive, resilient and low-carbon development. This is the third of three loans disbursed since the beginning of 2022. The first operation, for US$700 million, was approved in February 2022, and the second, for US$500...
Four months after President Guillermo Lasso signed an executive order allowing citizens to carry firearms for self-defense, not a single permit has been issued. In total, less than 100 applications “to carry” have been submitted nationwide, according to the Directorate of Arms Control of the Armed Forces. “The permitting process requires a number of steps...
Of Ecuador’s eight presidential candidates, only three responded last week to a Quito’s newspaper question of where they stood on the Yasuní oil referendum. Yaku Pérez and Fernando Villavicencio said they would vote “yes” to end oil production while Otto Sonenholzner said he believed the “yes” vote would prevail, creating a funding crisis for the...
For foreign residents, deciding whether or not to buy health insurance in Ecuador is one of biggest challenges they will face. Should they maintain their insurance coverage in their home country? Should they cancel that policy and purchase private insurance in Ecuador? Should they sign up for health care offered by Ecuador’s Social Security system,...
Miércoles, 2/8/2023 Periodico – viernes, 4/8/2023 Hola, Todos – It’s going to be a short post – I hit something wrong and one and a half hours of work disappeared. So I’ll recreate those articles and call it quits. Actividades – Conciertos gratuitos de la Orquesta Sinfónica (Free Symphony Orchestra Concerts) – The OSC will...
Ecuadorian authorities confirmed Friday that nine officials from the country’s prisons bureau in the city of Guayaquil had been arrested after weapons, explosives, and drugs were found in their offices “following the inspection of wards in the Penitenciaría del Litoral,” the Prosecutor’s Office said on its Twitter account after some 2,000 troops carried out three...
Three media outlets are claiming that Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign did not report payments to its top campaign managers. Among the managers was the Ecuadorian Vinicio Alvarado, who Petro credited with being the “architect” of his 2022 election victory. If the allegations are true, they would be a violation of Colombian election law....
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