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Yes, we are all still in lockdown, part of the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," holding out hope that there really is light at the end of the tunnel. Some of our friends up north keep reminding us that we need to stop complaining, we are in paradise. So...
There will be no changes to the Covid-19 health emergency restrictions in Cuenca until at least May 17. The city joined all but five of the country's 221 municipalities Friday in deciding to delay changes to the current "red light" status. "It is not yet the time to...
Jueves, 30/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Alcaldes plantean que semáforo siga hasta el 17 de mayo (Mayors propose that traffic light continues until May 17) - Not one mayor in the country is willing to leave the isolation phase or...
A privately funded project aims to get Cuenca and Azuay Province back to "normal living and back to work" through mass Covid-19 testing of the population. The Trust Fund for Cuenca's Proof for Life is raising funds to administer tens-of-thousands of tests to allow the...
Miércoles, 29/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Digital publications - The Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar has put books and magazines on line at http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec. The material is in the area of law and society and includes...
Martes, 28/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Alianza Francesa - The Alianza Francesa has complete concerts on its YouTube site with pop, jazz, electronic, rap and reggae performances. Go to...
Lunes, 27/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Azuay se niega a dejar aislamiento (Azuay refuses to leave isolation) - See Saturday's CHL for story. Trueque (barter) - The city governments of Sígsig in Azuay and Gualquiza in Morona Santiago...
The Cuenca municipal council has petitioned the government to maintain all Covid-19 health emergency restrictions in the city for the foreseeable future. Mayor Pedro Palacios agrees. "May 4 is too early to make any changes based on current conditions," he said in...
By Giovanni Cambizaca This April we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Whether you think our future will be like Greta Thunberg’s nightmares or something more manageable, it is clear that the climate is changing. The closer you are to the planet’s...
Jueves, 23/3/2020 Hola, Todos - The spider wishes you a happy Un-April Fool's Day. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Día del Libro - Book Day was celebrated by the Casa de la Cultura today with a reading of Camus' "La Peste" (The Plague) that started at 9:00 on...
Miércoles, 22/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival "La Cumbre de las Artes" (The Summit of the Arts) - This edition, "El rencuentro. ¡De casa adentro!" (Reunion. ¡From home inside!) was scheduled for 3-30/4 from Colombia and included...
By John Keeble Emergency supplies of food are being taken around to many of Cuenca's thousands of Venezuelan refugees as lockdown rules bite harder every day on those who have lost every means to earn money and buy food. They are part of the wider efforts to help...
Ángeles are a popular theme within the social structure of Ecuador. Catholicism reigns in this South American country. There are paintings and statuary, carvings, drawings and reliefs of ángeles everywhere. Most of these are depicted in traditional manners with...
Martes, 21/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Precio del petróleo por los suelos (Oil price down to the ground) - See Tuesday's CHL for the story. Health controls not working in Cuenca - In spite of the city wide quarantine, there is more...
By Stuart White and Pauline McKean “I’ve seen how in every person, every human being, a calling to care for the Earth occurs when, privately, their being tells them ‘this you must do’’, José Morquecho said in a matter-of-fact way. When he made his observation, José...
By Mesdfin Fedadu Elvis Francois, the orthopedic surgery resident who has gone viral with his top-notch live performances at hospitals, knew from adolescence he wanted to help heal the world through medicine. But through music? Not so much. Two years after becoming an...
Lunes, 20/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Museos Nacionales en línea - You can access the archeological, ethnographic, and artistic collections of 14 national museums in 11 cities at http://www.museos.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/redmuseos....
It's been one month since I published this column on the importance of obtaining sufficient vitamin D from food and from sunshine because vitamin D is essential for a healthy immune system. Since that time researchers have been working hard on identifying links...
By Sandra Gutierrez G. The Centers for Disease Control and Protection has encouraged people to wear cloth masks at all times while outside. Research shows that although they’re not great protection against airborne Covid-19 particles, they’re better than nothing. And...
Some call is the power of prayer, or the law of attraction, or visualization, or the power of intention, or even, for you skeptics, the placebo effect. Call it what you will, there is little argument that positive attitudes yield positive results. Expressing gratitude...
