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Rising rates of Covid-19 infections in Brazil and other countries in Latin America are prompting calls for the U.S. to send more doses of vaccines south. Among the arguments for the shipments is the risk posed by millions of Latinos traveling to and from the U.S. According to the latest population figures, more than 18...
By Kenny Stancil Dozens of Nobel laureates on Tuesday demanded that the U.S. Department of Justice intervene immediately to stop the prosecution of human rights attorney Steven Donziger by a corporate law firm with ties to Chevron, which has relentlessly demonized Donziger since his legal team first won a multibillion dollar judgement against the oil giant in 2011...
Three Quito physicians are questioning President-elect Guillermo Lasso’s efforts to purchase Covid-19 vaccines from China and Russia, claiming the doses have not been adequately vetted by researchers. In a letter to Lasso, the doctors claim the Chinese Sinovac and Russian Sputnik V vaccines “have not undergone the rigorous testing” applied to vaccines approved for use...
One of the more curious subspecies of Ecuador expat is the small but noisy contingent that is utterly obsessed with the price of things; more specifically, they are obsessed with the notion that they are being ripped off, not only by Ecuadorians, but by other expats who are complicit in the rip-off. It almost doesn’t...
By Associated Press Staff Mars missions, astronauts coming and going at the International Space Station, China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Space-related news is flowing, and not just from the world’s richest, biggest nations. Take Latin America. On Feb. 17, the congress in Nicaragua, one of the region’s poorest, most conflict-prone nations, approved a law creating a space...
In an interview with Guayaquil newspaper El Universo, President-elect Guillermo Lasso admits that he faces massive challenges when he assumes office in three weeks. He talks about the urgent need to vaccinate Ecuadorians against the Covid-19 virus, to reduce the skyrocketing poverty rate and to resurrect a struggling economy. He also explains how he can...
National and municipal police were busy over the second weekend of the 28-day health emergency, interrupting illegal parties and arresting curfew violators. The National Police report breaking up 583 parties and mass gatherings, making 516 arrests for curfew violations and issuing more than a thousand fines to drivers on the streets without legitimate reasons. The...
Area news media say it is receiving a deluge of complaints about the Covid-19 vaccination program in Cuenca and Azuay Province. The complaints include unannounced changes in vaccination locations, cancelled appointments, lack of notification of appointments, lack of documentation and a disconnect between public health ministry announcements and vaccination stations. Social media platforms are also...
There are “signs of hope” in Ecuador’s fight against the Covid-19 virus, according to Juan Zapata, president of the national Emergency Operations Committee. “There has been a decline in new cases during the first week of the health emergency and we believe the numbers will continue to go down,” he said. “It is difficult to...
By Ellie Shechet Trees and forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, or the movement of carbon dioxide through the atmosphere. Thanks to activities like deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, there is now 2.5 times the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than there was before industrialization. Without forests, says Francisco...
Following up on a suggestion from the Constitutional Court, President Lenín Moreno has sent a draft of the Health Emergency Management Law to the National Assembly. The legislation would allow the government to impose restrictions on personal liberties in the case of pandemics or other health crises. Three times in the last year, the Constitutional...
By Alistair Bell & Mitra Taj Losing the fight against same-sex marriage at home, leading U.S. evangelical Christians are joining in the culture wars in Latin America as cheerleaders for opponents of gay legal partnerships, abortion and pornography. One of the Americans is veteran legal crusader Mat Staver who was both a disciple of late...
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