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The National Assembly voted Wednesday to form a commission to investigate “failures of leadership” by Assembly President Guadalupe Llori. The commission is made up of her opponents and is expected to recommend her removal following 35 days of fact-finding and...
Miércoles, 27/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Noche de recuerdos para festejar a mamá (A night of memories to celebrate mom) - For Mother's Day, there will be a 5 hour concert este viernes in the coliseo Jefferson Pérez a las 19:00. Performers will be Los...
By Jan Dynes My mother would be 104 this month if she was still with all of us. Mother's Day always followed just after her birthday. So she is on my mind. Mary Jane Seibertz was born during the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1918. She brought 3 daughters into this world,...
By Esteban Rojas A 72-year-old grandmother who named a popular snack after the "widow" of President Nicolas Maduro -- still very much alive -- has become the latest casualty of a Venezuelan hate speech law denounced by rights defenders. Olga Mata was arrested last...
Ecuador could reduce this year's fiscal deficit more than it predicted, if crude prices remain high and it is able to sell a state-owned bank, President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday, adding the country still requires significant private investment to create jobs....
Martes, 26/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Pedidos de la CNJ y del CJ, innecesarios (Requests from the CNJ and the CJ, unnecessary) - <This topic was too hard for me to translate yesterday, and I haven't gotten any smarter since then so if you're...
By Paul Paz y Miño On Tuesday, human rights lawyer Steven Donziger woke up free, marking the closure of the latest chapter in Chevron’s scheme to evade justice for contaminating the Amazon rainforest. Now all eyes turn back to the true crime – Chevron’s contamination...
By Erin Prater Patients suffering from respiratory and neurological symptoms, including loss of taste and smell. Long-haul sufferers who struggle to muster the energy to return to work. A pandemic with a penchant for attacking the elderly and obese with particular...
As the effort to oust National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori continues to simmer, a new controversy has taken shape in the legislative halls. It follows the revelation last week that the Assembly’s Pachakutik leader Rafael Lucero met secretly in Mexico City...
Lunes, 25/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Casa Yangoe: un espacio para el comercio justo y el esparcimiento (Casa Yangoe: a space for fair trade and recreation) - Casa Yangoe started in Quito 7 years ago and opened in Cuenca in 2021. You can buy products from an...
By Mary Harrington In 1515, Pope Leo X issued a papal bull stipulating that all published material translated from Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and Chaldaic into Latin, or from Latin into the vernacular, should be moderated by sensitivity readers. Without such precautions,...
The government is blaming staff shortages and supply problems for long delays in delivering cedulas, passports and drivers’ licenses. The National Civil Registry office says it is processing more than 360,000 requests for cedulas and passports with the waiting time...
The National Police have arrested 18 men suspected of assisting a criminal organization with ties to Mexican and Colombian drugs cartels. Those arrested are also suspected of participating in drug-related murders and several "acts of terrorism." The detainees,...
By Alexandra Valencia An Ecuadorian court chief on Friday signed a request seeking the extradition of ex-President Rafael Correa from Belgium to serve an eight-year jail term for bribery, although the former leader's spokespersons said Brussels had granted him asylum....
By Amiah Taylor As the nation calls for President Joe Biden to ramp up taxes on the wealthy, crypto millionaires are creating their own tax-free havens in Central America. The draw of creating small crypto-backed utopias in Latin America is the freedom from both taxes...
Local and national officials surveyed flood damage Friday in Azuay and Cañar Provinces but said major repairs cannot begin until the rain stops. “We have reopened one lane of the Pan American highway in three locations, near Azogues and Santa Isabel, but this is...
By Sophia Epstein “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again,” President Joe Biden said earlier this year. He’s not the only political leader calling for workers to head back to the office. “Mother Nature does not like working from...
Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc on areas near Cuenca Wednesday and Thursday, washing out highways and bridges, flooding farmland and destroying homes. National Risk Management officials were in Azogues and other parts of Cañar Province Thursday, assessing damage...
Jueves, 21/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Margarita Laso "Vuelve al Sur" (Margarita Laso "Back to the South") - As part of the foundation of Cuenca festivities, the "Vuelve al Sur" concert with singer Margarita Laso, marimba player Pablo Valarezo, and the Orquesta...
By Stephen Vargha Cuenca artist Boris Ordoñez showed a tour group his huge chess pieces at the entrance to his gallery, OFF Arte Contemporáneo. “It is like a chess game where the kingdoms are represented by the young and old,” said Ordoñez. “Young artists are...
