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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...
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,...
