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By Saralee Squires Fundacion Hogar de Esperanza is a locally based, locally run, accredited charitable organization right here in Cuenca. Our team supports people and families going through rough times and determined to get back on their feet. Our help lifts them...
By Jake Johnson If a single word can encapsulate why — two years into the global Covid-19 pandemic — the virus continues to spread widely and kill thousands of people each day despite the availability of lifesaving vaccines, the humanitarian group Oxfam International...
With international oil prices breaching the $120 per barrel mark over the weekend, Ecuador is expected to raise the price of high-octane gasoline to at least $4 a gallon next week. The price of regular gasoline and diesel will remain at $2.55 and $1.90, rates fixed in...
More than half of Ecuadorians in the Amazon region live on less than $2.85 a day and below the national poverty line. In Morona Santiago Province, bordering Peru in the southeast, 70 percent live in poverty, according the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses...
By Jonathan Josephs The war in Ukraine is "a catastrophe" for the world which will cut global economic growth, the president of the World Bank has told the BBC. "The war in Ukraine comes at a bad time for the world because inflation was already rising," said David...
A second government-chartered flight of Ecuadorians fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine is scheduled to arrive in Quito Saturday morning. The flight, carrying 209 Ecuadorians, left Warsaw Friday night. The first humanitarian flight, with 246 aboard, landed Friday...
By Isaac Chotiner The political scientist John Mearsheimer has been one of the most famous critics of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Perhaps best known for the book he wrote with Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,”...
By Aaron Kheriaty, MD The theologian Doug Farrow has written, in the form of a Medieval disputatio, a cogent and persuasive defense of civil disobedience in response to vaccine mandates and other unjustifiable Covid measures. It is entitled Whether There is a Moral...
By Joshua Goodman Sanctions on Russia are starting to wreak havoc on global trade, with potentially devastating consequences for energy and grain importers while also generating ripple effects across a world still struggling with pandemic-induced supply chain...
Jueves, 3/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Molleturo pide no aislarla (Molleturo asks not to be isolated) - People in various communities in Molleturo parish are asking for an adequate emergency plan so they won't be isolated from Cuenca. The road is...
By David Leonhardt Nearly 60 million American adults — or about one of out every four — remain unvaccinated against Covid-19. They have made an irrational choice that exposes them to severe illness. But they have also made a choice with a long historical tradition. In...
By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, foreign students attempting to leave the country say they are experiencing racist treatment by Ukrainian security forces and border officials. One African medical student told CNN...
Editor's note: On Wednesday, Quito radio station La Voz de los Andes hosted three political experts in a discussion of what Russia's invasion of the Ukraine means for Ecuador and world. They were Carlos Pereira, a retired history professor from San Francisco...
Miércoles, 2/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - 689 ecuatorianos a salvo (689 Ecuadorians safe) - Based on an official report from noon ayer, 689 Ecuadorians succeeded in crossing the border of Ukraine. They are all in good health and staying in...
By Leita Hulmes Hi! It’s Leita again, a volunteer with the Ecuadorian charitable foundation called Hearts of Gold. I wanted to give an update to all the supporters of Hearts’ “All Children Deserve to Dream” program. Through the Global Giving platform, your...
By Diane Jeantet, Mauricio Savarese and Deborah Rey Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future. But in South America — which in just the last month has had deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfire in Argentine wetlands and...
Martes, 1/3/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Carnaval multicolor (Multicolor Carnival ) - During Carnaval, various communities of the Cañari people also celebrated Lalay Raimy or Paukar Raymi. This was basically a photo article so not translatable. Cuenca -...
While countries like Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua have been vocal in their support of President Vladimir Putin. Cuba's Miguel...
By Matt Egan Russia faces the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown. Punishing sanctions leveled by the West have sent the ruble crashing to record lows, shuttered Moscow's stock market and made Russian assets toxic on the world stage. The White House has even...
Lunes, 28/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Carnaval dinamiza al Azuay (Carnival energizes Azuay) - Even in the rain and cold wind, people celebrated carnaval in Cuenca's neighboring cantons of Gualaceo, Choreleg, Sígsig and Paute. Kids jugaron carnaval...
