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By Alexandra Valencia At one of Ecuador's oldest flower farms, workers are planting hemp on land that traditionally used for roses, making a bet that selling cannabinoid products will help offset the decline in flower sales caused by the pandemic. Declining sales...
The national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) voted Thursday to allow travel to and from El Oro Province for those who are fully vaccinated. Previously, the state of emergency in the province prohibited all inter-provincial bus and car travel to stop the spread of...
Jueves, 29/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Musicalizarán cortometrajes ecuatorianos (Ecuadorian short films will be musicalized) - The 2021 edition of Expocine will show 9 films and hold talks and round tables. The organizers of the event are working with the city,...
Author's note: Time is running out for Ecuador to save its Amazon rainforests -- areas which have 10,000 times the biodiversity of the Galapagos islands. Ethno-ecologist Adam Gebb looks at the problems and possibilities in a seven-part series. This article explores...
By Elizabeth Melimopoulos Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the virus that causes the disease, SARS-CoV-2, has mutated multiple times, with some strains being more infectious and deadlier than others. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified four...
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso met Wednesday morning with new Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, hours before Castillo’s inauguration, saying he looked forward to working with the new government in Lima. Castillo said he wanted to meet first with Lasso to get...
Miércoles, 28/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - En deciembre será la inauguración de Bienal de Cuenca (Inauguration of the Cuenca Biennial in deciembre) - The 15th Edition of the Bienal is titled "Bioceno. Cambiar el verde por el azul" (Biocene. To change green for...
By John Rapley Early in 2020, after a mysterious coronavirus emerged out of China and then raced across the globe, a quiet new year took a screeching turn. Stark images of ventilated patients in Italian hospital hallways soon filled our newsfeeds. Panic erupted across...
Ecuador is vaccinating hundreds, possibly thousands, of Peruvians who have crossed the border irregularly because of a lack of vaccines in their own country. “It is our policy to deny no one a vaccine, no matter their origin,” says the Ministry of Health’s southern...
An Ecuadorian court has revoked the citizenship of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is currently in a British prison. Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to a...
Martes, 27/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividadides - Plantean que el Festival de Artesanías sea "emblema" (Proposal that the Festival de Artesanías is an "emblem") - Each Festival de Artesanías de América costs the Centro Interamericano de Artesanías y Artes Populares...
By Jeremiah Reardon I slipped in black mud on Taitachugo, a mountain in El Cajas National Park. Retreating from a climb to 3600 meter (11,800 feet) altitude with friends, I had lost my footing on a trail trod by alpacas, llamas and horses as confirmed by their scat....
By David Leonhardt Breakthrough infections — in which vaccinated people nonetheless get the Covid-19 virus — are one of those vexing topics that can be difficult to put in perspective. On the one hand, breakthrough infections are obviously occurring. They’ve happened...
The Quito Municipal Council has lowered capacity limits for restaurants, shopping malls and large department stores. The council said it is considering imposing additional biosecurity measures for public spaces and may require city employees to be vaccinated. The new...
Leonidas Iza, the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), is wasting no time in presenting his demands to the government. “There should total amnesty for all of the 600 protesters arrested in the 2019 uprising and immediate...
Lunes, 26/7/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del periodico de viernes, 23/7/2021 - 50 leyendas se traducen al inglés (50 legends translated into English) - A professor of Técnicas de la Traducción in Estudios Internacionales (Translation Techniques in International...
By Michael Rosenbaum, MD and George Bray, MD In 1962, the noted physiologist Edwin Astwood, MD, PhD, wrote "Obesity is a disorder which, like venereal disease, is blamed upon the patient. The finding that treatment doesn't work is ascribed to lack of fortitude." At...
By Alexandra Jaffe The United States served notice Monday that it will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant. It was the latest sign that the...
Hospital intensive care units in seven of Ecuador’s 24 provinces, including Azuay, are at 100 percent capacity, the national Emergency Operations Committee reports. The COE said Sunday that about half of the units are occupied by Covid-19 patients, the number of which...
By John Keeble Cuenca's Andean musicians, forced off stage by the pandemic, are emerging Saturday, July 31, in an online revival of Mi Cuenca Canta! – and, thanks to the generosity of personal donors, they are being paid to perform for the first time in over a year....
