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By Alec Ryrie If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago last Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the decisive events that made the world we live in, for...
Viernes, 7/10/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Tres días de música en el 'Roto' (Three days of music at the 'Roto') - The Rotofest independent electronic music festival opened Friday at 17:00 in the parque La Libertad. It will run through 9/10. Timo Maas, Origami,...
By Mary Harrington In 1954, Russian scientists successfully grafted the still-living head of a puppy onto an existing adult dog. I recently stumbled on a photo of the resulting horror which I think will haunt me forever. But why is it upsetting? Those untroubled by...
By Carlos Calderón A couple of years ago, a recently arrived expat who I had only met a few days earlier asked if I could arrange a meeting for him with then-President Lenin Moreno. He knew that I had been a consultant to the government on an archaeological project...
The feud between President Guillermo Lasso and the National Assembly reached a fevered pitch Monday when the Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn Lasso’s management of the government. “The president has abandoned his responsibilities of governance and is doing...
Miércoles, 5/10/2022 Hola, Todos - I seem to be in taking time off mode. I will be off from Monday, 10/10 through Monday, 24/10 and back on Wednesday, 26/10. Actividades - Obras de 90 artistas se expondrán en Cuenca (Works by 90 artists to be exhibited in Cuenca) -...
By Manuela Andreoni The world’s forests are increasingly threatened and the main thing keeping some of them alive are the people, many of them Indigenous, standing up against those who want to clear the land. Today, I want to explain why life is becoming increasingly...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that key provisions of the National Assembly’s new communication law are unconstitutional. The ruling followed President Guillermo Lasso’s partial veto and his request that the legislation be reviewed by the court. The...
In a Monday night, television interview, President Guillermo Lasso said that the Covid-19 pandemic has ended in Ecuador. “Thanks to the strong national response and the effectiveness or our vaccination campaign, we can finally declare that the pandemic is behind us,”...
By Nidhi Saha Alcohol abstinence increases the risk for dementia in later life, according to a recent study published in the journal Addiction. The researchers do not dispute other findings that alcohol consumption adversely affects brain health and can lead to...
One of Ecuador’s highest profile prisoners died Monday in a riot at the Cotopaxi penitentiary in Latatcunga. Deputy Director of Prisons Jorge Flores confirmed the death of convicted drug trafficker Leandro 'El Patrón’ Norero. In addition to Norero, at least 14 other...
Lunes, 3/10/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nothing I can find; have a boring week. Titular - Brasil, a reñida segunda vuelta (Brazil, a close second round) - See story in today's CHL. Cuenca - Azuay tiene 86 candidatos a alcaldes (Azuay has 86 mayoral candidates) -...
By Liam Higgins When Dashi Ergys was shot to death in an upscale Guayaquil restaurant in January, the media provided little information about him other than that he was Albanian. Despite the fact that he appeared to be specially targeted, many people assumed he was a...
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has issued an arrest warrant for Germán Cáceres, wanted in the police academy murder of his wife, María Belén Bernal. Cáceres has been a fugitive since September 13, when Bernal was reported missing. It is...
President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed expectations in Brazil’s election Sunday, proving that the far-right wave he rode to power four years ago remains a force as he fought his way into a runoff against leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The...
By Nelson Bocanegra With a machete across his chest, sugar cane worker Aldemar Moreno guards the entrance to the farm where he has been employed for 23 years, ready to defend it from land occupations by groups indigenous and others that have exploded in Colombia. ....
A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by a group of hackers from military and police agencies across several Latin American countries, Mexico’s president confirmed Friday. In statements, the hackers claim...
Viernes, 30/9/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Libro sobre el uso de plantas medicinas (Book on the use of medicinal plants) - The Hogar Miguel León has published "Botica de la abuela," a book on medicinal plants based on the accounts of its residents. In 2019 the...
By Eric Schlosser The 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense operates a dozen central storage facilities for nuclear weapons. Known as “Object S” sites and scattered across the Russian Federation, they contain thousands of nuclear warheads and...
By Joshua Hawkins Researchers with the University of Oxford and Google Deepmind have shared a chilling warning in a new paper. Published in AI Magazine last month, the paper claims that the threat of AI is greater than previously believed. It’s so great, in fact,...
