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A weekend that witnessed at least 12 murders in Guayaquil, most of them committed by hitmen believed to be connected with drug gangs, is sparking public outrage and calls for an overhaul of law enforcement strategy. In addition to the dead, 16 more were injured, 11 of...
The national Emergency Operations Committee has removed most of the country from its ‘red alert’ pandemic list, including Cuenca, Quito and Guayaquil. The COE announced the move during a Saturday meeting following a report by Health Minister Ximena Garzón that...
By Andrew Harding South African scientists -- praised internationally for first detecting the Omicron variant -- have accused Western nations of ignoring early evidence that the new Covid variant was "dramatically" milder than those which drove previous waves of the...
The United Nations Children's Fund is asking Ecuador to reconsider its decision to close schools in reaction to the recent increase of Covid-19 cases. “One thing we know for sure is that another wave of widespread school closures will be disastrous for the country’s...
By Tony Tran Months after El Salvador announced that it would accept bitcoin as legal tender, the country has found itself on the verge of economic collapse yet again. The country’s president Nayib Bukele made waves last year when he announced that the nation would...
By Steven Grattan Human rights groups and politicians in Colombia have welcomed a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court which ruled this week that the government failed to consult local communities over its plan to restart aerial fumigation of coca crops. In...
Jueves, 20/12/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. <Unless you want to count the article about Santa Isabel below.> Titular - Contagios no dan tregua (Contagions don't let up) - With cases and deaths rising in children, parents are looking for ways to shield...
By Christopher Lux Nicolás Vergara, a Chilean living in Guayaquil, has put together an amusing and instructional list for expats in Ecuador: "15 signs you've been in Ecuador too long." When I read it, I only understood half of the "signs" he discusses. My first...
By Molly Taft Humans have produced so many chemicals and environmental pollutants that we’re currently exceeding the limits of a “safe operating space for humanity,” a new study finds. That could mean that the planet, as well as our health and wellbeing, is in serious...
The Attorney General’s office defended itself Wednesday for recommending a prison sentence for a police officer who shot two men who were attacking a teenager last year in Riobamba. Corporal Santiago Olmedo was sentenced to three years and four month in prison for...
Miércoles, 19/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Abel Azcona expone en Galería Taló (Abel Azcona exhibits at Taló Gallery) - Spanish artist Abel Azcona has started an exhibition tour in Ecuador with the first show opening tomorrow in Cuenca at the Galería Taló...
Indigenous communities in Ecuador on Tuesday presented hundreds of thousands of signatures to the country's top court to demand their right to make final decisions on use of ancestral lands they say are threatened by expansion of extractive projects. The indigenous...
By Andrea Jaramillo and Oscar Medina Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels. Oil and coal currently account for...
By executive decree on Tuesday, President Guillermo Lasso, repealed Ecuador’s Foreign Currency Outflow Tax for suppliers of fuel and natural gas. The assessment, commonly called the exit tax, remains at 4.75 percent for other financial transfers out of the country but...
Martes, 18/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Corresponsabilidad (Co-responsibility) <I think this concept comes more easily to a culture that still has mingas - less to someone from an Anglo-Saxon dominant culture where each individual is his own...
Don’t go to the library today, there are too many words already. Pick up an instrument instead. -- Rumi __________________ American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and...
Ecuador will ask its citizens to vote in a 2023 consultation to reform its justice system, President Guillermo Lasso said on Tuesday, amid accusations that decisions by judges are holding back efforts to fight crime. Violence and crime, including within the prison...
By Li Yuan China’s “zero Covid” policy has a dedicated following: the millions of people who work diligently toward that goal, no matter the human costs. In the northwestern city of Xi’an, hospital employees refused to admit a man suffering from chest pains because he...
Lunes, 17/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From the Ellos y Ellas Sunday supplement - Hangry Hippo <I'm not sure if I should put this here or in the advertising section, but it's an article so it's here.> - A new restaurant/bar that welcomes both people and...
By Michael Stott What was good for copper was good for Chile’s peso. The fortunes of the currency of the world’s largest copper exporter were closely tied to the price of its main export. Last year the pattern broke. World copper prices rose 25 per cent in 2021, but...
