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By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi The Rumichaca bridge, located on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, is filled with Venezuelans waiting to enter Ecuador. Recently, the line extended over 150 meters for those waiting to process their entry. Most of them carry...
Miércoles, 24/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Dialogue - Ángel Valverdo is the special guest Thurs. a las 19:30 in the Portal Artesanal (Bolívar y Huayna Cápac). The photographer will talk to attendees about their experience...
Martes, 23/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Taller - Meetings of Prueba_Error, Club-laboratorio started hoy and will run to el jueves from 17-20:00 in La Vitrina. The club explores artistic processes linked to technology. The...
Ecuador's president has lashed out at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange even as he says his government is working behind the scenes to help him out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Lenin Moreno said in a televised interview Sunday that Assange had become "more than...
A young Irishman was killed and two others, Irish and British citizens, are missing following a kayaking accident in Ecuador's Amazon region. Alex McGourty,19, from Sligo, died in the Saturday morning accident on the rain-swollen Rio Abanico, in Morona Santiago...
The leadership of Alianza Pais (AP) is making plans to gain control of four committee chairs in the National Assembly that are currently held by former party members who resigned last week. Those who resigned are loyal to former president Rafael Correa and say they...
Public opinion polls are in agreement. Only two weeks before Ecuadorian voters go to the polls, President Lenin appears headed for a big victory on all seven of his referendum questions. On Thursday, the polling group Cedatos released its latest results showing that...
By Esteban Cordero Balarezo Odebrecht. It is a corporate name well-known in many parts of the world in connection with large-scale construction projects. In Latin America and the Caribbean, it is a name associated with some of the largest public infrastructure...
Tempers are flaring up in Chile after Pope Francis accused the victims of a pedophile priest of ‘slander’ on Thursday. The pontiff said there was “no proof” for their claims that abuse by Father Fernando Karadima had been covered up by another man, Bishop Juan Barros....
National Court Judge Édgar Flores has ordered former president Rafael Correa and former attorney general Galo Chiriboga to testify in a trial against Alecksey Mosquera, Correa´s minister of electricity. Mosquera is accused of laundering bribe money paid to him by...
The international human rights monitoring group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), says significant improvements have been made in Ecuador’s human rights record but that serious problems remain. In its 2017 annual report, HRW says that Ecuador has lifted many restrictions on...
By Liam Higgins President Lenin Moreno got an earful Wednesday about how he should run the national economy, with conservative and liberal economists offering vastly different strategies. Meanwhile, a former vice president attacked the government’s economic policy for...
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi Ignacio ‘Nachito’ Aguilar, a native of Quilanga canton in Loja Province, celebrated his birthday last week in Catamayo. The event would not be notable except for the fact that Nachinto just turned 117 and is the oldest person in...
Martes, 16/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Concierto - The first U. of Cuenca Symphony performance will be Wednesday a las 20:00 in the Catedral Vieja. Colloquium - "La Universidad de Cuenca y su relación con las provincias...
Former president Rafael Correa was one of the first members to officially resign from Alianza País (AP) following yesterday’s ruling by the Electoral Contentious Court (TCE) that confirmed an earlier decision to recognize supporters of President Lenin Moreno as the...
French-Brazilian journalist Manuela Picq arrived in Quito Monday night more than two years after she had been deported by the government of former president Rafael Correa. Arriving from the U.S., where she is professor at the University of Amherst (Massachusetts),...
An 81-year-old U.S. tourist was found Sunday afternoon on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos following an 18-hour search. The man had made a cell phone call to the island’s emergency 911 center on Saturday afternoon to say that he was lost. According to rescue...
The U.S. State Department includes Ecuador on a short list of the safest countries in Latin America. The State Department issues safety ratings for all countries for the benefit of U.S. tourists. Under a new safety rating system introduced this month, Ecuador,...
Carlos Pérez, leader of the Ecuarunari indigenous movement, has filed a request with the attorney general’s office to prevent former president Rafael Correa from leaving the country. Correa is currently in Ecuador leading the “no” campaign against President Lenin...
Ecuador is considering kicking Julian Assange out of its embassy in London. The South American country is looking for a third country to mediate in the case of WikiLeaks founder Assange, who has sought refuge in Knightsbridge embassy for more than five years. Foreign...
