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By the World Bank The year 2020 was a leap year, and it was on that extra day, February 29, that the Ecuadorian government officially announced the first known case of COVID-19 infection in the country. An elderly lady had returned from travel abroad with the virus 15...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ecuador and Colombia on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, including countering drug trafficking and tackling irregular migration, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Friday. "In Quito on October 19,...
Farmers, teachers and several labor unions will take to the streets Monday in a “National Day of United Struggle.” The farmers are protesting a lack of government price supports and foreign imports while the teachers claim the government is not honoring a court...
One person was killed and three more were injured Sunday when falling boulders struck their pick-up truck on the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway in the Cajas Mountains. The accident happened near Molleturo where a major landslide occurred in August. The highway was closed...
By Paul Krugman All happy economies are alike; each unhappy economy is unhappy in its own way. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the economy’s problems were all about inadequate demand. The housing boom had gone bust; consumers weren’t spending enough to...
“You can’t escape. Your heart will be broken, too.” This was how Jake introduced himself as he slumped against my table. It was a balmy evening, the cafe was full as he crumbled into one of the last available chairs. He went on: “I have never been married, other than...
President Guillermo Lasso has agreed to divide his Opportunities Law proposal into three parts to satisfy concerns of the National Assembly. At the same time, he said that if the Assembly fails to act on the legislation he will not hesitate to invoke the so-called “La...
Foreign visitors who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with shots approved by the government and the World Health Organization will be allowed to travel to the United States starting on November 8, the White House said Friday. "The U.S.'s new travel policy that...
By Isabella Cota Political upheaval in Latin American countries has led to many of their wealthiest residents taking money out of their countries – a trend evidenced by their luxury properties in Miami, Florida. Over the last year and a half, while the global economy...
The shutdown of Banco Pichincha's online services due to a cyberattack has sparked angry reaction from customers and the explanation offered by the bank's largest shareholder isn't helping matters. Pichincha, Ecuador's largest bank, disabled all internet services last...
Jueves, 14/10/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Habrá coloquio sobre salud mental (There will be a colloquium on mental health) - The Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo (International Institute for Educational Technological...
By Oxford University By comparing the genes of current-day North and South Americans with African and European populations, an Oxford University study has found the genetic fingerprints of the slave trade and colonisation that shaped migrations to the Americas...
Miércoles, 13/10/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Una "Liga del Dibujo", del papel a realidad (A"Drawing League," from paper to reality) - 4 illustrators, cartoonists, and designers have organized an event to show people that there is more to their art than Marvel or...
By Chris Hedges Judge Loretta Preska, an adviser to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison last Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after...
By David Leonhardt Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry. The headline was, “Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma.” The article...
By Nora Gámez Torres and Jacqueline Charles New Biden administration travel restrictions aimed at preventing the unvaccinated from coming to the United States will be felt particularly hard in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where wide disparities and lack...
By Gregory Mottola The sun is a stranger here. The thick clouds over Ecuador’s Los Rios province can make one forget that the sky is blue, not a pearly shade of off-white. It isn’t the kind of weather that brings in tourists, but these are the precise atmospheric...
Martes, 12/10/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - See article below on Festividades en Azogues y Cuenca. Titular - Se tensan más las relaciones (Relationships become more tense) - See Tuesday's article in CHL for the story. Cuenca - Festividades bio seguro en Azogues y...
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...
Lunes, 11/10/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From viernes, 8/10/2021 Perros callejeros, eje de expo fotográfica (Stray dogs, axis of photographic expo) - Photographer Carlos Vázquez has taken pictures of street dogs during his trips around Ecuador. Leonel Gómez saw...
