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By R. Evan Ellis From April 22 to 25, I had the opportunity to travel to Quito to address an international forum on China and Latin America, held by the prestigious San Francisco of Quito University and FLACSO Ecuador. My participation in the event also enabled me to...
A century of Titanic investigation has ignored a vital question: were key crew members impaired by drink on the night of the disaster?
By Lachlan Brown Growing up without social media means your worldview is untouched by likes, shares, or viral trends. Instead, it’s shaped by direct experiences, personal interactions, and self-reflection. As someone who belongs to the generation before the social...
By Jennifer Szalai Elon Musk predicts that a million Earthlings will be living on Mars in 20 years — not just for the exciting adventure but as a matter of survival: “We must preserve the light of consciousness by becoming a space-faring civilization & extending...
By Mawuna Remarque Koutonin In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat.” What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to...
By Kevin Koenig Coastal communities in Ecuador are still reeling from a devastating oil spill on March 13, which dumped over 25,000 barrels of crude oil into rivers and protected areas in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas. The spill blackened rivers, streams,...
By Melissa Kirsch If you sit close enough to the front of the theater for “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, you can see Paul Mescal spit and sweat as he stalks the stage as Stanley Kowalski, an artist doing his work in real time and space....
By Andrew Nikiforuk Ray Kurzweil, who is 76, wears the latest in Silicon Valley fashion: a Mickey Mouse watch, colourful suspenders and a righteous belief that humans should be able to live forever. For two decades the inventor, futurist, computer geek and Google...
By Joseph Earp As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to automation: it’s nice that computers have made some boring things in our lives less boring. I side with the...
By Andrea Belén Palma Politics in Ecuador, more than ever, seems to have been hijacked by a generalized feeling of distrust. As we approach the second round of elections, the panorama is not that of a country committed to its future, but that of a divided, confused...
By James Bosworth In the midst of campaigning for reelection, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa last week offered a shocking policy proposal: He said he will invite foreign troops to the country to combat criminal gangs. Although Noboa had earlier proposed allowing...
By Christopher Lux According to the World Economic Forum, there will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world's oceans by 2050. The world is throwing the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic waste into the oceans every minute. While I was living...
By John Lindsay-Poland When the presidents of the United States and Mexico brought the two countries back from the edge of a trade war on Feb. 3, each made commitments to the other. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum pledged to send 10,000 Mexican troops to the...
By Anonymous Why hasn´t religion faded away in the face of enormous scientific evidence that its claims are impossible? Every major religion was founded before science was invented. We now know that life after death is not possible, and that there is no heaven or hell...
By Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo On February 9, Ecuador held presidential elections against the backdrop of a political, economic, security, and social crisis. Ecuadorians will head back to the polls on April 13 for a decisive runoff election that could drastically shape the...
By Ana Lankes On Sunday Ecuadorians went to the polls for the third time in four years to elect a president and all 151 members of their legislature. Many polls, bookmakers and the markets had predicted a win for Daniel Noboa, the hip president who has only been in...
By Will Freeman For a moment on Sunday, the government of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro looked like it might be the first in Latin America to take a meaningful stand against President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation plans. Instead, Petro gave Trump the perfect opportunity...
By Jeronimo Giorgi We have overcome darker times before”, were the closing words of former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís on October 4, addressing the decline of the democratic state in Latin America. For the eighth consecutive year, more countries...
The headline above is borrowed from a notice posted on a bookstore window in San Anselmo, California. More than a few news programs in the media recently sparkled with airbrushed images of despicable political louts facing serious legal trouble, followed by celebrity...
By Paul Theroux “Call this a govment! Why, just look at it and see what it’s like. … They call that govment! A man can’t get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country. … Says I, for two cents I’d leave the blamed...
