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The mist in the air over Ecuador’s southern sierra, including Cuenca, is the result of dust being blown northward from Peru, not from volcanic ash. A Wednesday morning report from the University of Azuay air quality index service that the haze over Cuenca was due to...
Demonstrators marched through the city of Iquique Monday and Tuesday, waving Chilean flags and demanding the expulsion of what they called foreign criminals. Some tore down tents that had housed migrants, while at least one person was beaten by the crowd. There has...
By Ryan Berg and Daniel Runde Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso is en route to China where he will meet with President Xi Jinping February 3 to discuss a new debt repayment schedule, address environmental sustainability and perhaps most importantly, propose the...
As more bodies were recovered Tuesday afternoon and the death toll rose to 23, government officials are blaming uncontrolled development for Monday’s flooding in Quito’s La Gasca neighborhood. “This didn’t need to happen if the city planning office had done its job...
Martes, 1/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - La TRI quiere tomarse LIma (La TRI wants to take Lima) - Ecuador and Peru tied 1 - 1 and Ecuador gained another point in its bid to make the World Cup competition in Qatar. Cuenca - "Hay imprecisiones en el...
Back in late 2018 I wrote a series of articles on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. It seemed rather appropriate to do an update given the increased attention on life and death during these past two years. I would guess that almost every man and woman, and even...
By Irina Ivanova Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because they constantly leak small amounts of methane even while they're off, a new study has found. The same study also found that home stoves can emit high levels of nitrogen...
In what officials say is the “deadliest flooding in years,” at least 14 have died and 36 others were injured in northern Quito Monday night. Meteorologists warn that more rain in expected on Tuesday. Most of the deaths and injuries occurred in Quito’s La Gasca sector,...
By Jeremiah Reardon Christmas approached in Cuenca when I heard from my friend and fellow University of Maryland graduate, Carol Leutner. Hi Jeremiah, I hope you and Belinda are doing well during this crazy holiday time. I am wondering if you can help me arrange some...
Lunes, 31/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Cuenca, ciudad cara para vivir (Cuenca, an expensive city to live in) - Data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INEC) shows that the Family Basic Basket costs $30 more in Cuenca than the rest of...
President Guillermo Lasso is threatening to veto legislation being debated in the National Assembly if it goes beyond the Constitutional Court’s order to allow abortion in cases of rape. Some assembly members are proposing a broader revision of the current law, in...
Following a series of workshops over the weekend, Cuenca city officials and the National Police command announced new plans to improve law enforcement in the city. The meetings followed reports last week that police were being transferred from Cuenca to Guayaquil....
The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee voted Sunday to allow the reopening of bars, discos, entertainment centers and brothels and to increase the capacity for restaurants and public offices. The COE said that improving Covid-19 pandemic conditions dictated the...
By Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer, not to go to Shanghai to visit the mother of a dissident. He went to the airport anyway. His phone’s health code app — a digital pass indicating possible exposure...
Ecuador’s privately held heavy crude pipeline burst on Friday and technical staff are at the scene working to contain the damage, crude transport company OCP Ecuador said. OCP is blaming the rupture on a rockfall caused by recent rains. The incident happened in the...
The National Institute of Census and Statistics reports that formal employment rose to 33.9 percent of the working population in December 2021, up from 30 percent early in year, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We are recovering the lost jobs but the gains are...
By John Keeble Every now and again, if you are lucky, you experience a moment when you can see the world changing and you know the future will never be quite the same. Just such a moment happened in the Cajas Mountains as a disparate group of good people came together...
By Richard Collett Borders are supposed to be simple in the Pyrenees. On the southern side of the mountain range, you're in Spain. On the northern side, you're in France. Visit Val d'Aran, though, and geopolitics takes a more complicated turn. Val d'Aran is on the...
Jueves, 27/12/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - En tres días elaborarán 20 prototipos de videojuegos (20 video game prototypes to be developed in three days) - The Asociación de Desarrolladores de Videoguegos Ecuatorianos (ADVEC) and OpenlabEC are presenting the 8th...
By Frank Gardner Imagine a world where encrypted, secret files are suddenly cracked open -- something known as "the quantum apocalypse". Put very simply, quantum computers work completely differently from the computers developed over the past century. In theory, they...
