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Miércoles, 19/7/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Bailerines presentan ‘La Bella Durmiente’ (Dancers present ‘Sleeping Beauty’) – The ballet “Sleeping Beauty” will be performed at the Teatro Pumapungo on the 21 y 22/7 a las 19:00. 35 dancers, including special participation by the Compañía de Danza of the U. of Azuay, have been preparing the...
In another sign of the growing division in Ecuador’s indigenous movement, most movement leaders are rejecting the advice of Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) President Leonidas Iza to vote “null” in the presidential cross death election and supporting Yaku Pérez. “This is another sign of Iza attempting to control the movement and, again, he has...
By José María Irujo David Morales, owner of the Spanish security company UC Global, S.L., which spied on Julian Assange during the Wikileaks founder’s time at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also allegedly spied for the CIA on meetings held in 2018 by the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (2007-2017), with former presidents of Argentina, Brazil and...
A prominent rights activist from the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou has been prevented from boarding a Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok to Ecuador, where he had hoped to take his family to claim political asylum in the United States. Liang Songji, who has been repeatedly jailed by the Chinese authorities for his criticism of...
Four leading presidential candidates in the August 20 cross death election offer starkly different approaches to solving Ecuador’s debt crisis. Luisa González (Citizens Revolution) and Yaku Pérez (Democracia Sí, Popular Unity) favor a policy of negotiation and auditing debt contracted in recent years while Otto Sonnenholzner and Fernando Villavicencio would focus on growing the economy,...
Lunes, 17/7/2023 Hola, Todos – Titular – Vía Molleturo registra otros puntos críticos (Other critical points on the road to Molleturo) – El pasado jueves, the vía Cuenca-Molleturo was opened at km. 49 with 2 lanes and 10 terraces on the 150 m. slope above the road, each with a drainage ditch. The slope is...
The National Electoral Council is warning Ecuador voters to be suspicious of early election poll predictions for the presidency and the National Assembly. “Many of the polling organizations have not been recognized by the CNE and many of them are hired by individual campaigns and provide distorted results,” the CNE said in a statement. Pedro...
By Fernando Gimeno The discovery of an ancient pre-Columbian cemetery in Quito is helping to shed light on human populations that settled in that region around 2,000 years ago. Ceramic vessels and stone-carved decorative objects are among the more than 5,000 pieces found at the site, which is located in what today is the Llano...
Although Cuenca Mayor Cristian Zamora and Azuay Province Prefect Juan Cristóbal Lloret are backing different presidential candidates, both say their political positions are similar. Lloret supports the candidate of his Citizens Revolution party, Luisa Gonzales, while Zamora is backing Cuenca environmental activist Yaku Pérez represented by a coalition of the Democracia Sí, Popular Unity and...
In May, Ecuador concluded the largest debt-for-conservation swap in history with the goal of protecting the unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands, demonstrating, according to Foreign Minister Gustavo Manrique, that the Andean nation is “as rich as any rich country in the world, with the difference that the currency is called biodiversity.” Located in the...
By Garry Vatcher A cardboard sign hangs in the community, “Our houses are gone, we need help.” No one comes to read their sign or to help. Indigenous and black communities have been neglected for a long time, resulting in almost 70% poverty in these Esmeraldas communities. These marginalized communities are almost never a priority...
By Mariana Martinez Barba Four towering light beams flicker on Robert Banderas as he clutches a microphone. He adjusts his red, yellow and blue sports jersey, preparing to slip into his alter ego. By day, the 52-year-old is a welder. At night, Banderas transforms into “El Cuy,” one of the biggest boosters of ecuavoley in...
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