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Jueves, 7/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Hoy se inaugura festival de música sacra "Quien canta ora dos veces" (Sacred music festival "He who sings prays twice" opened today) - <And does he who laughs prays 3 times? I guess it depends on what he's laughing...
By Sebastian Stranieri There are only two types of companies in today’s digital age. Those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked. Three, if we add those who have been hacked but just don’t know it. Emerging markets in Latin America and beyond are the...
The National Assembly voted Tuesday to send President Guillermo Lasso's revisions to the new abortion law to the Constitutional Court to determine their legality. The law was passed in March following a 2021 ruling by the court that Ecuador’s current law, which...
Tourists and vendors in Playas are complaining about the mounds of driftwood littering local beaches. The logs, limbs and other trash that wash ashore during rainy season and then accumulate on beaches have been collected in piles as high as three meters but have not...
Miércoles, 6/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - La Chismosa enciende su primera vela (La Chismosa lights its first candle) - FM station, Radio La Chismosa (FM 104.1), will celebrate its 1st anniversary with a free concert. The "Tour Party Reggaeton 2022" will be el...
By Marcos Aleman El Salvador’s congress, pushing further in the government's dramatic crackdown on gangs, has authorized prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media and journalists that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press freedom...
By David Leonhardt To many people’s surprise — including mine — new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. have not begun to rise. Over the past two weeks, they have held roughly steady, falling about 1 percent, even as the more contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron has become...
Martes, 5/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Abril, un mes de cultura (April, a month of culture) - Some of the activities planned for the 465th anniversary of the founding of Cuenca include movies in the barrios, music in the parks, and a return to parades of...
By Heather Conley Let’s say you want to open a small business in Cuenca. Why not? It’s a great city, arguably the best in Ecuador, and you want to contribute. ou have dreams, you have skills – you want to give back. But if your business idea depends on staff, STOP!...
By Jeremiah Reardon At a March rehearsal for Azuay Community Theater’s first fully-staged play since the Covid-19 pandemic began, How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn, Director Bob Fry and ACT President Paula Bailey outlined the play for me. The action takes...
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, and the port city of Callao following nationwide protests over rising fuel and fertilizer prices. On Sunday, the government announced it would temporarily scrap the fuel tax in an attempt to...
There will be no interruption of services for cancer patients, Ecuador's Social Security Institute (IESS) said Monday. IESS health division officials said that arrangements are being made to pay a debt to the Solca cancer foundation, which provides treatment services...
Lunes, 4/4/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Azogues inicia sus festividades con pregón cultural (Azogues starts its festivities with a cultural proclamation) - The start of the festivities of the 197th anniversary of cantonization of Azogues was el pasado sábado with...
Interior Minister Patricio Castillo said Monday afternoon that order has been restored at the Turi Penitentiary south of Cuenca and that those responsible for Sunday’s riot have been identified and transferred to a prison in Guayaquil. He said the final death toll is...
By Heather Galloway Life expectancy is longer in Spain than it is in the United Kingdom – and much longer than in the United States. This is something that has been pointed out by a number of studies, the latest being from the University of Washington’s Institute for...
At least 20 prisoners at the Turi Penitentiary have died and an undetermined number have been injured during a riot that began shortly after midnight Sunday. In an afternoon news conference, Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo said the situation is “not yet under...
Philip Hall takes photographs of classic cars. Or, at least, at first glance that’s what the observer might assume. However, on closer look, it becomes clear that while the classic (and sometimes not so classic) car is his predominant subject, it isn’t the only...
The leadership of the indigenous Pachakutik party has expelled six members it accuses of failing to support party positions and advocating the resignation of Assembly President Guadalupe Llori, a member of Pachakutik. Those expelled are Mario Ruiz Jácome, Mireya...
By Paul Morland “One hundred and forty-six million [people] for such a vast territory is insufficient,” said Vladimir Putin at the end of last year. Russians haven’t been having enough children to replace themselves since the early Sixties. Birth rates are also...
A day after one lane of the Cajas highway had been opened to bring supplies to residents west of Sayausí, new landslides made it impassable again. Heavy rains Friday afternoon also caused flooding in downtown Cuenca and temporarily pushed the Tomebamba and Yanuncay...
