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When you move to a new country, it’s important to understand the Healthcare system that you will be using going forward. Many countries in Central and South America have some of the best known healthcare systems in the world, for considerably less money and almost...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series on vegan dining options around the world. To read the first part and second parts, click here and here. By John Keeble It is tempting to think of the new vegan travellers being in the 16- to 35-year-old age group...
As always, before starting to work with a new client, I ask them to first send back a fairly comprehensive medical and lifestyle (diet and activity) survey. Alice (not her real name) wrote that her goals were to lose weight and eat better — she wanted to feel better...
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on vegan dining options around the world. To read the first part, click here. By John Keeble How we travel after Covid-19 reorganises transport, accommodation and restaurants is far from settled – but one thing...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on vegan dining options around the world. By John Keeble An interesting challenge came my way earlier this year and I grabbed it. Can a vegan survive in The Land of Meat? I flew to Buenos Aires and took an...
By Giovanni Cambizaca Burgundy, Bordeaux, the valleys of the Loire and the Rhone, these are some of the most famous French wine regions, but France’s more obscure vineyards can also produce excellent wines. The Languedoc-Roussillon region produces vast amounts of...
It was the end of an unseasonably hot day and not a leaf stirred. Tiny particulate, back-lit by rays of the diminishing sun, seemed to float like a dirty mist over the scene. Darwin, Edie and I were pretty worn out after spending the day in the countryside celebrating...
By Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael Speculation about a future coronavirus vaccine is ramping up and social-media posts from anti-vaccination campaigners are gaining more traction online. We've been debunking a few recent claims. Why the microchip rumours don't stack...
By Giovanni Cambizaca The last time I was in France, I stayed in a small village in the Haute Garonne, midway between Toulouse and the Pyrenees. One morning, I had an early start to take some friends to catch a train in Narbonne, and on the way back I decided to visit...
Ecuador is tops for avocados. As I wrote in December, avocados are one of the most healthful foods on earth, and here in Ecuador, we’re in ‘avocado heaven’! They’re quite inexpensive, fresh, and so abundant that you may want to buy a bunch and freeze some for later....
By Lauren Dunn For Sarah Bowen, it all started with a sore throat. Not the kind of searing pain she’d feel with strep, she said, but a throat irritation that just didn’t feel right. “By the end of the day, it just got a little worse and I didn’t feel great. I felt...
The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta We’ve talked a lot about the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir in very ill coronavirus patients. Now we know a bit more about the thinking of how it is suggested to be used, after researchers published the data that led the...
By Devi Lockwood Earlier this month, Samy Kamkar shared his latest creation on Twitter: chocolate that shimmers like a rainbow. Mr. Kamkar is not a chocolatier. He’s a founder of the internet security company Openpath, and gained early internet notoriety in 2005 for...
By Ed Konderla I am always surprised how many people are amazed that I’m unabashedly pro-President Trump. When he won the election my feet didn’t touch the ground for three days. I was elated by the shock and pain I saw in the eyes of liberal progressives, especially...
By Jeff Van Pelt I first wrote this article while confined to a hotel room in Quito 24/7, after being stranded in Argentina for 7 weeks. My emotions inevitably colored the message. It was titled “Exiled and Abandoned.” I decided not to publish it as it would have been...
By Jan Dynes I was asked to write a short piece by a very reputable magazine about how anyone can find happiness in today’s world -- the one of pandemics, war, starvation, ‘dog eat dog’ politics and ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. I couldn’t write that article. I had to...
As we gradually reopen businesses and the curfew is relaxed, it is not a time to relax our vigilance and safety measures that have allowed us to reduce the infection and death rate from Covid-19 — in Cuenca — and in those parts of the world that have taken measures to...
By Ricki Lewis Dividing groups of people into “us” and “them” isn’t usually a good idea, but in the scary new world of COVID-19, it makes a certain sense. Issuing “immunity licenses” – aka passports or certificates – to people whose blood contains neutralizing...
By Giovanni Cambizaca After last week’s article about natural wines, I heard from a reader who had sampled an orange wine while on a trip to Argentina. She thought the wine had a lovely bouquet, but no one in her group actually liked the taste of it. So this week,...
By Robert Bradley The GoFundMe campaign to raise money for my medical needs reached its goal in a mere three days and I am overwhelmed with gratitude to all those who came to my assistance, dear friends as well as dear strangers. I am truly astonished at the kindness...
Week of August 23
Ecuador’s economy grew 2% during the first half of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to new Banco Central del Ecuador data.
Cuenca gets a prime view of next week’s deep partial lunar eclipse.
Ecuador’s economy grows 2% in the first half of 2026.
