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President Guillermo Lasso said Tuesday there will be no more pandemic lockdowns for Ecuador. “Future confinements are out of the question,” he told reporters during a Tuesday morning interview at the Presidential Palace in Quito. The president said Ecuador can “afford...
As the trade agreement between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) enters its sixth year, consumers will see the elimination or reduction of tariffs on 1,300 products. Among products that will be cheaper in 2022 are food items, health and pharmaceutical products,...
Lunes, 3/1/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Nuevos rostros del patrimonio (New faces of heritage) - 2021 was a year of recuperation for the private construction sector dedicated to patrimonial residences in Cuenca. According to data from the Dirección...
The Workers Popular Front of Ecuador announced Friday that it plans a national strike on January 19 to protest the government’s failure to reduce gasoline and diesel prices to January 2021 levels. On December 28, President Guillermo Lasso agreed to freeze fuel prices...
A close friend of mine recently remarried after being single for over 12 years. I was not surprised. She maintains a healthy diet and likes to be out and about, taking art classes, volunteering once a week for a good cause and having lunch dates with friends in any...
By David Morrill When the clock ticked over to 2022 Friday night, an observer with an elevated vantage point, say from the Turi overlook or a highrise condo, witnessed Cuenca’s skyline explode with fireworks. At street level, the smell of gunpowder mingled with...
By Kathleen Peddicord Planning for a retirement that includes spending some or even all your time in another country is an increasingly appealing idea with enormous potential upside. As a result, it’s easier than ever to find help making a plan to retire overseas....
Because of pandemic restrictions, the traditional burning of New Year’s monigotes, or dummies, is banned tonight but many expect the order to be ignored. “There will be fire in the streets no matter what the government says,” an unnamed seller of monigotes near the...
Jueves, 30/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Ómicron se expande; ley todavía en ciernes (Omicron expands; law still in the making) - See today's afternoon story in CHL. Cuenca - "Podemos estar hablando de los últimos episodios de la pandemia" ("We...
The National Assembly’s Health Rights Commission has completed the first draft of the Pandemic Health Emergency Law, with debate by the full Assembly scheduled to begin in early January. “This is urgent legislation because of the Covid-19 emergency,” Assembly...
Beginning in 2022, Ecuador will offer a new visa option for foreigners who work online. Called the “internet nomad visa” or simply the “nomad visa,” it will allow those who qualify and their families to live and work in Ecuador for up to two years. Tourism Minister...
Miércoles, 29/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Obras estudiantiles en primer Festival de Cine de Naranjal (Student works in first Naranjal Film Festival) - The first International Student Film Festival started yesterday and will continue until 30/12 with short...
His Spanish is pretty good except for those pesky irregular verbs. He's clever enough to mumble them hoping the tense remains clear through context. He carries a well-thumbed mini-English/Espanol dictionary, so we know he's sincere about broadening his vocabulary. He...
The highway that connects Cuenca to Guayaquil and the coast reopened Tuesday on a limited basis following a two-month closure due to rockslides. The highway will be open from 5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. with Transportation Ministry monitoring the stability of the adjacent...
President Guillermo Lasso announced Tuesday that the government will maintain the price of diesel fuel and regular gasoline at current levels. “We are not going to raise the price of basic fuels so everybody can calm down,” he said in Guayaquil. The Confederation of...
Many countries in Latin America were hit with soaring Covid-19 death rates early in the pandemic, as coronavirus raged throughout the region. The tide is turning in many Latin American nations today, where vaccination rates are outpacing countries in Europe and North...
The Ministry of Health said Monday that demand for Covid-19 vaccines in the last seven days has been the highest since the emergence of the Delta variant in early 2020. “The large numbers are a result of fear of the new Omicron variant and the entry restrictions...
Lunes, 27/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Migración: posible paso por Nicaragua (Migration: possible passage through Nicaragua) - The Ministerio de Gobierno warned that since septiembre there has been an unusual increase in Eucadorians traveling to...
By Stephen Kinsella We have come a long way from the optimism that surrounded the internet in the early 1990s. As Tim Berners-Lee has remarked several times, there was a "utopian" view of its potential to democratise news and reinforce social cohesion. Indeed, only 10...
By Kristen Warfield With the increased popularity of ordering food from online platforms such as Glovo and UberEats throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, you might not think that the order in which the food is presented on the menu may make any difference. But one new...
