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National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori has 10 days to defend herself against charges that she failed to carry out her executive duties. The commission assigned to investigate Llori is holding hearings this week based on complaints filed by Social Christian...
Miércoles, 4/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Sigue la indefinición (Indecision continues) - See Wednesday's article in CHL for more information. Cuenca - Lineamientos del Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education Guidelines) - The Ministry of...
Peru's government has announced a plan to buy the nation's entire supply of illegal coca leaf -- the primary ingredient in cocaine -- for at least a year, as part of its battle against drug trafficking. The South American country is one of the world's three largest...
Saying the Covid-19 epidemic is “under control” in Ecuador, Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Tuesday that only the emergence of a new, more dangerous variant would cause the government to reverse its decision to drop the face mask decision. “We have entered a new...
Martes, 3/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Anticipan exceso de candidatos (Excess of candidates anticipated) - <Aren't you glad you live in Ecuador? Not only bio-diversity but politi-diversity. Just the idea of having too many parties and...
By Joseph Choi The United States Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) on Tuesday issued a recommendation against people over the age of 60 using daily aspirin intake as a primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease. According to the independent, expert...
By Aaron Joshua Spray The Inca Empire was centered in Peru -- the capital of Cusco and Machu Picchu are both in Peru. But the empire was much greater than that and expanded as far south as Santiago in Chile and as far north as Colombia. It included all of Ecuador and...
When the federal prison opened at Turi in 2014, almost all of its inmates came from Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago Provinces in southern Ecuador. “The plan, developed during the [Rafael] Correa government, was that it would be regional facility for convicts from the...
Lunes, 2/5/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - The "Cuenca Activa e Inclusiva" Festival will be held el sábado, 7/5 in the Alejandro Serrano Aguilar stadium with a free concert by the Tercer Mundo band. The event is being organized by the Empresa de Movilidad, Tránsito y...
By Mara van der Lugt In the 17th and 18th centuries, a group of Western philosophers came to clashes, on the page at least, over the age-old problem of evil: the question of how a good God could allow the existence of evil and suffering in the world. Philosophers such...
By Monica Machicao In the Andean mountains of Bolivia's high western plains where snow lies powdered over dark rocks that rise into a hard gray sky, scientists and climbers are fighting for the future of a dying glacier that has become a controversial lure for...
Participants in Sunday’s May Day parades in Ecuador made it clear that this year’s event was more than a symbolic march for the rights of labor. “We are making a statement that we are in complete opposition to the government in Quito,” said Jose Ramos, vice president...
By Samuel Petrequin Former Ecuador president Rafael Correa said the political asylum he has been granted in Belgium is proof he is persecuted by his country's authorities and did not rule out a return to politics in an interview with the Associated Press last week....
President Guillermo Lasso and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo agreed on Friday to strengthen cooperation to promote border area development in the post-pandemic era. The agreement was reached by the two presidents in Loja, according to a joint declaration issued...
As a result of rising crime levels, President Guillermo Lasso has decreed a state of emergency in Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas Provinces. The order allows the use of military troops to combat what Lasso calls “a plague of illegal drug violence" and to reassign police...
The medical associations in Guayaquil, Quito and Cuenca issued statements Friday expressing alarm at the government’s decision to end the face mask requirement, saying they believe it was premature. “We understood the decision would be made in May following the...
By Manuel Rueda Colombians and Ecuadorians will soon be going to movie theaters without having to wear face masks. Chile opens its borders next week for the first time in two years. Mexico's president has declared the pandemic over. And in Rio de Janeiro, tens of...
For the first time in almost two years, Ecuadorians are allowed to go maskless. The national Emergency Operations Committee and President Guillermo Lasso announced Thursday that, effective immediately, face masks are no longer required except in hospitals and health...
Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will be lower than expected at 1.8 percent this year due to the war in Ukraine, a UN body said Wednesday. In 2021, the region's gross domestic product (GDP) was 6.2 percent, and the UN Economic Commission for Latin...
Jueves, 28/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Quimbita expondrá en Puerto Rico (Quimbita to exhibit in Puerto Rico) - Ecuadorian painter, Olmedo Quimbita, will be bringing 25 works from his gallery to the Museo de las Américas in San Juan de Puerto Rico starting el...
