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Most of the migrants enter Ecuador at the Peruvian border, at Huaquillas, and almost none of them plan to stay. According to the Foreign Ministry, the estimated 200 Haitians, Asians and Africans entering the country each day are met by so-called travel coordinators...
Martes, 3/8/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Cruce de acusaciones (Crossing of accusations) - As expected, the impeachment of ex-Comptroller General Pablo Celi in the National Assembly is a crossing of accusations, attacks, and grievances, especially...
As vaccinations in the U.S. have slowed significantly from their peak, they have risen sharply in Latin America, with a host of countries now inoculating against Covid-19 at a far higher rate than their richer neighbor to the north. The progress in Latin America is...
The murders began Friday in Guayaquil, just hours after a joint police - military operation made the largest drug bust in Ecuador history. The cache of cocaine, opioids and Chinese-produced drug-making chemicals was valued at $450 million and was presumed to have...
Lunes, 16/8/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Productores, claves de un "plan social" (Producers, keys to a "social plan") - Associations and small agricultural producers in San Fernando will be suppliers to the municipality for assembling baskets of organic...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about Cuenca sculptor Eduardo Segovia. To read the first part, click here. By John Keeble Eduardo Segovia, Cuenca's 83-year-old ceramicist, yearns to take on the big projects that swirl through his creative mind...
By Monique Tello, MD, MPH There’s a ton of incredibly promising intermittent fasting (IF) research done on fat rats. They lose weight, their blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugars improve … but they’re rats. Studies in humans, almost across the board, have...
In a press conference at the Mariscal La Mar Airport Saturday, Mayor Pedro Palacios said at least three more airlines want to enter the Cuenca market. Palacios was joined by Avianca’s regional director David Alemán who announced earlier last week that his airline...
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series about Cuenca sculptor Eduardo Segovia. By John Keeble Cuenca's internationally-renowned ceramicist Eduardo Segovia sat in his elegant room filled with his favourite art, contemplating the past and the future, and...
Mexico announced Sunday that it is establishing new rules for Ecuadorians arriving in the country by air. According to sources in Ecuador’s Mexican embassy, the requirements were developed jointly by the Mexican government, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Author's note: On the morning of March,16 2020, Ecuador closed its doors, forcing visitors to shelter in place. As a result, Peter Schramm, owner and manager of Izhcayluma Eco-Resort, near Vilcabamba, Ecuador, became the de-facto governor of an island state...
By Julian Resendiz Ecuadorians have been leaving their country in large numbers during the past 20 years due to economic and political woes. But that migration has accelerated “spectacularly” recently, with Mexico being their primary springboard to the United States,...
By David Morrill One of the great pleasures that many expats discover in Ecuador is art collecting. Even those who were not collectors back home take up the habit, smitten by the quality, variety, and sheer emotional force of the talent in this small Andean country....
The United States experienced unprecedented multiracial population growth and a decline in the white population for the first time in the nation’s history, according to U.S. Census officials, who released data Thursday revealing the most sweeping picture of America’s...
President Guillermo Lasso met Thursday with representatives of urban and long-distance bus owners, taxi owners and trucking companies to find a solution to rising fuel costs. The president insisted that he supports the end of general subsidies for gasoline and diesel...
Jueves, 12/8/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Primera marcha contra el régimen (First march against the regime) - See Thursday's article in CHL. Cuenca - "Se empieza a sentir el efecto de las vacunas" (The effect of vaccines is beginning to be felt) -...
By William A. Haseltine We have watched SARS-CoV-2 develop for 18 months and have some idea of its trajectory. The Delta variant is the prime example of strains succeeding each other, becoming progressively worse in waves of infection. According to a recent report...
Avianca Airlines confirmed earlier reports that it will add Cuenca to its national service beginning in October. The Bogota-based airlines also announced that it will begin non-stop flights from Quito and Guayaquil to New York and Miami as well as to Medellín and...
A crowd estimated at 10,000 marched through the streets of Quito’s historic district Wednesday afternoon protesting the government’s refusal to restore fuel subsidies. The leadership of the United Workers Front, the National Union of Educators, the General Union of...
Miércoles, 11/8/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Lasso rechaza las amenazas (Lasso rejects threats) - See story in 6/8 issue of CHL. Cuenca - Segundas dosis, prioridad hasta el 31 de agosto (Second doses, priority until August 31) - From ayer, the...
