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Lunes, 5/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - See "En vacaciones" for children's activities. Titular - Contrabando asfixia a tabacaleres (Smuggling asphyxiates tobacco shops) - Acccording to a study, 8 out of every 10 cigarettes consumed in...
Mayor Pedro Palacios says that full integration of Cuenca’s new tram system and city buses could take months and will probably not happen before the Covid pandemic is under control. “Discussions between the municipality and the bus companies are continuing but there...
The novelist Jack Kerouac wrote in a letter to his first wife and lifelong friend, Edie Parker: “If you practice kindness, patience and generosity all day, and to everybody, you will realize you are already in heaven.” And yet, somehow, despite our sincerest...
Jueves, 1/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - "Big Money" bajo suspecha e indagación ("Big Money" under suspicion and investigation) - The Fiscalía (Prosecutor) and Policía Nacional raided 3 properties associated with the "Big Money" pyramid scheme...
Miércoles, 30/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Adelantan plan (Plan advances) - The ministra de Salud, Ximena Garzón, announced that from el 5 al 11/7, people from 55 to 49 years old will be vaccinated. It will start with 55 year olds el lunes, 5/7;...
Martes, 29/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Del cuerpo del periodico - Una MasterClass con Supermaxi y Megamaxi (A Master Class with Supermaxi and Megamaxi) - Supermaxi and Megamaxi customers have an opportunity to enter a lottery to...
Lunes, 28/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Clasificación Tricolor con gol de un 'Angel' (Tricolor classification with a goal from an 'Angel') - I think Ecuador qualified for the quarter finals for something. <You know I don't do sports so you're...
By Alison Cramer Unlike Manta, Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, where drug-related gang warfare has reached "emergency" proportions, Cuenca's murder and violent crime rate has held steady during the Covid-19 pandemic. "We are lucky in this regard," says retired criminology...
Following his election as president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Sunday, Leonidas Iza pledged he would begin a new “era of activism” for the indigenous movement in Ecuador. Iza was one of the leaders of the October 2019 national...
Overwhelmed by increasing crime in the coastal provinces, most of it drug related, Ecuador’s National Police are turning the military for help. Jorge Cabrera, head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, said he would assign personnel and material to assist in the...
With the night falling we are saying thank you on the plaza, bowing to pigeons, or proclaiming the sky, we say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing in the shadows looking out in our direction back from a series of hospitals back from a...
Jueves, 24/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Chats de Celi le complican (Celi's chats complicate things) - Chats found on Comptroller Pablo Celi's phone were presented to AG Diana Salazar during Celi's hearing to his sentence to...
Miércoles, 23/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Aumentan contagios por COVID en Azuay (COVID infections increase in Azuay) - In the past week, MSP registered a 25% increase in Covid cases in Cuenca, leaving health authoritiies worried...
American software pioneer John McAfee, 75, was found dead of an apparent suicide on Wednesday in a prison cell in Barcelona, Spain, according to McAfee's lawyer, Nishay Sanan. "I am saddened to hear of the events and my prayers go out to his wife Janice," Sanan said...
The news of late has been as gloomy as the weather. Eduardo Stein, the special representative of the UN refugee agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), recently referred to Venezuala in this way, “The IOM has never faced such movement of refugees out...
Martes, 22/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Vaccine banner - Panel 1 - If you are over 12 weeks pregnant, have grave illnesses and are older than 35, "¡Vacúnate!" (Get vaccinated¡) Panel 2 - Weekly schedule for Phase 2: Nos Cuidamos, PRIMERA...
Lunes, 21/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Monserrath Astudillo estrena obra (Monserrath Astudillo premieres work) - Monserrath Astudillo is returning to the Teatro Casa de la Cutura with her new monologue, "¿Vieja yo o millennials...
I read an entry in Gringo Post the other day: We will be flying into Guayaquil. We are bringing our older dog of nearly 15 years and our 2nd dog of nearly nine years. We are looking for transport from Guayaquil to Cuenca via Santa Isabel and Giron because we are...
Jueves, 17/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Lista agenda del Inti Raymi (Inti Raymi agenda ready) - Azuay and Cañar will celebrate Inti Raymi with limited attendance and on social networks starting mañana and ending el próximo lunes. The...
At least two people were admitted to the Vicente Corral Moscoso hospital Wednesday morning following an attack by a swarm of bees near the fire station on Av. 27 de Febrero. As many as two dozen people received bites, said firefighters, who set up a triage center at...
