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By Martin Simmons The young man who recently moved to Cuenca from California described how thieves stole his cell phone and $100 in cash the first month he was in town. Hearing his story, a middle-aged woman from New Jersey, standing next to him at a party I attended...
The phone call, voice or text message offers a simple proposition: “Pay me or I’ll kill you or your family.” According to the National Police Anti-kidnapping and Extortion Unit, most of those receiving the calls are in Guayaquil and Quito although several threats have...
The Guayaquil cantonal Emergency Operations Committee (COE) has mandated that those attending public events in theaters, cinemas, social clubs, hotel salons and convention centers show vaccine cards or negative PCR or antigen test results for entry. The new order goes...
Lunes, 20/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Tibia navidad para el comercio (A lukewarm Christmas for retail) - After a 25% decrease in Christmas sales in 2020, the international container crisis is slowing recovery along with a lack of resources that is...
As health officials confirmed a third case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant in Ecuador and tested for several more on Sunday, they admit they are unsure of the impact the new strain will have on the country. “We are like everyone else in the world,” says Francisco...
By Beth Warren Mexican drug cartels are muscling in on America's burgeoning multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry, illegally growing large crops in the hills and valleys of Northern California. The state legalized marijuana in 2016 for adult recreational use, yet...
A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests was elected Chile’s next president Sunday after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump. With 99% of polling stations reporting, Gabriel Boric had 56% of...
Every now and then we are rewarded with a new dining venue that transcends the parameters of the typical restaurant by offering food and drink that not only surpass expectations but provide a vibrant new meeting place to those who have called Cuenca home for years as...
The Ministry of Health reported Friday that a second case of Covid-19 omicron variant has been found in Guayaquil. Unlike the first case, in which the infected 48-year-old man had recently visited South Africa, where omicron was first detected, the second patient had...
Following emergency meetings Friday between the Catholic Archdiocese and city officials it was decided that the annual Pase del Niño Christmas Eve parade would proceed but without most of the participants and onlookers. The church and city said they would release...
By Sam Meredith Voters in Chile face an era-defining choice. The presidential run-off on Dec. 19 will see citizens of Latin America’s small but wealthy Andean nation cast their ballots in favor of one of two outsider candidates promising to chart wildly different...
New measures intended to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus go into effect today. Announced Monday by the Emergency Operations Committee (COE), they prohibit public events that have not been permitted, limit the capacity for restaurants, churches, shopping...
By Sandee LaMotte Synthetic chemicals called phthalates, found in hundreds of consumer products such as food storage containers, shampoo, makeup, perfume and children's toys, may contribute to some 91,000 to 107,000 premature deaths a year among people ages 55 to 64...
Cuenca's Pase del Niño Christmas parade has been cancelled for second consecutive year due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. District Police Chief Andrés Vicuña made the announcement Thursday following a meeting with the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE)...
Stunned by chargers that top officers of the National Police and Army are involved in drug trafficking, Interior Minister Alexandra Vela, announced an investigation Wednesday of 19 police commanders. She asked the Superintendency of Banks to review the bank accounts...
By Jeremiah Reardon Fishbon del Sur, a collaborative theater community established in El Centro, closed its doors due to the Covid pandemic. The source of many satisfying moments of entertainment and friendship for my wife Belinda and me, how our lives have changed...
Miércoles, 15/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - En un festival venderán los dulces de conventos (Convent sweets to be sold at a festival) - To reactivate the economic situation of the convents in Cuenca, several have organized the Christmas festival, Dulce Jesús Mío...
By Antonio Maria Delgado , Brian Fitzpatrick, Kevin G. Hall, Lilia Saúl Rodriguez, Jay Weaver, and Verdad Abierta Nearly 13 years and 1,300 miles removed from the violent streets of Medellín, Carlos Mario Aguilar has rebuilt his life in South Florida. The alleged...
Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Tuesday night that the first case of the omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus has been confirmed in Ecuador. A 48-year-old Ecuadorian man returning from South Africa, via Panama, is being quarantined at a hotel near the Quito...
Martes, 14/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Oficios rurales en una miiserie documental (Rural trades in a documentary miniseries) - Christian Rojas and Paula Llerena have produced Ayllu, a 10 chapter miniseries documentary on Instagram about traditional work that...
