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By Maggie Harrison Last weekend, comedian and YouTuber Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the ongoing AI gold rush. And honestly? It goes pretty hard. "Tech companies are suddenly promising to use AI to...
Lunes, 10/4/2023 Hola, Todos - I will be taking about 3 weeks off starting this Friday and resume translating on Wed., May 3. Actividades - Todo listo para el desfile estudiantil (Everything ready for the student parade) - There will be a parade celebrating the 466th...
By Stephen Vargha Everyone has heard the joke that the “world’s oldest profession” is prostitution. And it has been said the “world’s second-oldest profession” is spying because there are at least two dozen passages about it in the Bible. Those two professions were...
I’m occasionally asked, “How did you meet your Ecuadorian wife?” This question always triggers a reflection on why I had come to Ecuador, not to find love but to find a place of peace, wide smiles and laughter -- a place to cast off the energy of a busy past, an...
In a major blow to the government, the Imbabura Provincial Court has revoked the license of the Enami-Codelco mine in the Intag forest of Imbabura Province. The judges agreed with local residents who claimed that the Chilean-operated mine violated environmental...
By Francesco Manetto In recent days, two photographs have connected the nearly 4,000 miles (6,300 kilometers) that separate the Mexican state of Quintana Roo and the Chilean city of Santiago. The images are radically different, but they speak of the same thing: a...
When I was a kid I thought that alchemists were somewhat spooky. I recall reading about how they are said to possess strange visions and stranger incantations, producing results that befuddle or amaze, yet they are always mixed with a dose of suspicion or a liter of...
Lunes, 7/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Un abanico de atractivos en feriado de Semana Santa (A range of attractions for the Easter holiday) - Even though getting to Cuenca is difficult for tourists, there are still many things to do if you're here with the main...
Ecuadorians own fewer guns per capita than their counterparts in any other Latin American country. According to a survey by the Swiss Small Arms Project, private gun ownership in Ecuador is 2.4 per 100 inhabitants. Two other surveys, by Insight Crime and Wise Voter,...
Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat (SGR) has upgraded the landslide risk in La Cría from yellow to orange, as cracks in the ground continue to expand. While the yellow designation indicates “serious risk” and urges evacuation, the yellow alert indicates a...
By Garry Vatcher On Wednesday, Hogar de Esperanza brought your donations to Alausí, scene of the devastating March 26 landslide. As you make the last U-curve before the descent into the valley, the devastation becomes clear. The bare mountainside looms over the town...
By Liz Briceño Pazmiño Migration is like knitting: two brackets bind the wool together, and a fabric is built. In the same way, Ida Sandrea, 53 years old, decided two years ago to knit her Venezuelan roots and those of her new home, Ecuador. She and her daughter...
Alausí Mayor Rodrigo Rea was attacked Tuesday night following a meeting at the city auditorium before police were able to move him to safety. “There is no justification for this and we briefly detained one man who hit the mayor,” National Police captain Roberto Ramos...
Miércoles, 5/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Una tertulia sobre sabores de Ecuador y México (A gathering on the flavors of Ecuador and Mexico) - Culinary researcher Nydia Vázquez and the founder of El Pedregal Azteca, Juan Manuel Ramos, held a "Tertulia...
By Amanda Ruggeri Like many of us, I spend too much time on my phone. And, like many of us, I am acutely aware of – and often feel guilty about it. Sometimes, I'll leave it at the other end of the house, or turn it off, to use it less. But, sooner than I'd like to...
The beginning of the impeachment trial of President Guillermo Lasso could be delayed because of disagreements among National Assembly members defining the charges against him. President of the Oversight Commission Fernando Villavicencio insists that members should...
By Will Freeman and Beatriz Rey Thirty years ago, Latin America’s nascent democracies did what had once seemed impossible: They confined the militaries that had regularly overthrown them to their barracks. But now presidents from Mexico to Brazil are coaxing the...
By Michael Weissenstein and Gonzalo Solano Kléver Ortega and Cristina Lema had a good life until Covid-19 crippled Ecuador’s economy. Ortega was a house-painting contractor and there was work until demand dried up in the pandemic. The entrepreneurial couple launched a...
President Guillermo Lasso's authorization of civilian possession and carrying of firearms drew widespread condemnation Monday although several organizations praised it. Critics said the new rule will lead to increased violence while others called it a “political...
Lunes, 3/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Sorry, but something went wrong with the formatting and the 5 articles from Sat & Sun's paper that I stayed up to 10:30 to translate all disappeared. And I'm not going to translate them all over again. So this will be a short issue....
