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At least two people were admitted to the Vicente Corral Moscoso hospital Wednesday morning following an attack by a swarm of bees near the fire station on Av. 27 de Febrero. As many as two dozen people received bites, said firefighters, who set up a triage center at...
By Stephen Vargha La Guarida is a cultural center and a restaurant. Located on the western end of Cuenca's historic district, it is the heartbeat of the Barrio Convención Del 45, the neighborhood where Ecuador's 1845 constitution was drafted. Andrés Zambrano, owner of...
Miércoles, 16/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Aprueban uso de CanSino (CanSino use approved) - The Agencia Nacional de Regulación, Control y Vigilancia Sanitaria (Arcsa) qualified the Chinese CanSino vaccine for use in Ecuador. The...
By Ann Cowan They were a pair of young doctors in love who put off marriage to save lives. As the pandemic raged in Ecuador last year, they posted a social media photo of themselves dressed in biohazard suits kissing and holding a sign saying: “Today was to be our...
Under an agreement signed in April with the U.S. government, Ecuador may be able collect billions of dollars in unpaid taxes as well as penalties for money transferred out of the country illegally. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America, between $20...
Martes, 15/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Cierran carril de la Primero de Mayo (Lane closed on Primero de Mayo) - Construction starts today on the largest network of ciclovias (bike lanes) in Cuenca now that the city has received a $8...
Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes said Monday that Pedro Castillo is the winner of Peru’s presidential runoff election. With 100 percent of votes counted, Castillo defeated conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori by 50.12 percent to 49.87 percent, or 44,000...
By Rob Stein The U.S. is banning the importation of dogs from more than 100 countries for at least a year because of a sharp increase in the number of puppies imported into the country with fraudulent rabies vaccination certificates. "We're doing this to make sure...
Once we’ve experienced life as an expat, something in us changes irrevocably. Keeping those experiences alive as a repat is a whole new challenge.
Finance Minister Simón Cueva announced Monday he hopes to reach a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund by August and says the first IMF loan disbursement should come in September. According to Cueva, the negotiations are necessary due to several...
By Marc Fisher At an ice cream shop in Rockville, Md., gloved servers scoop the frozen treat into cups, but a sign taped to the front window says “No cones: Covid.” At McDonald’s outlets along I-95 in Virginia, yellow police-style tape cordons off self-serve beverage...
Lunes, 14/6/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Carapaz logra otra hazaña al triunvar en Tour de Suiza (Carapaz achieves another feat with triumph in Tour de Suisse) - See today's (lunes) CHL article for story. El 15.15% de cuencanos se ha...
By Jake Coyle When the filmmaker Morgan Neville began making a documentary on Anthony Bourdain, the late chef and globe-trotting television host, one of the first things he did was comb through every song Bourdain had ever referenced. He came up with a playlist 18½...
As the new government of President Guillermo Lasso begins negotiations today with trucking, bus and taxi unions to alleviate the impact of rising diesel and gasoline prices, it is quietly looking for ways to end the largest fuel subsidy, that for LP gas. A 2014...
Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz resisted all challengers to win the Tour de Suisse on Sunday. The Ineos Grenadiers team rider was left with just one crew mate three kilometres from the finish but managed to fight off his challengers to take the win, 17 seconds...
I awoke to the first day of my seventieth year last Sunday. The morning was still quietly snoozing on pillows of clouds drifting downwind when I started my routine of photographing the neighborhood and the goings-on along the river. I stood on one of my favorite...
By Victoria Guida The Federal Reserve is taking what may be the first significant step toward launching its own virtual currency, a move that could shake up banks, give millions of low-income Americans access to the financial system and fortify the dollar's status as...
Friday’s indigenous protest against rising fuel prices and International Monetary Fund (IMF) restrictions was peaceful, attracting about 1,000 participants in Latacunga. Fears that the protest would spread to other communities and block highways proved unfounded....
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, which contains much of the country's oil reserves and a place where oil companies are expected to soon expand drilling, likely has a higher density of jaguars than any other place on earth. Yasuni is arguably world's most biodiverse...
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to officially classify Bitcoin as legal currency. Congress approved President Nayib Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, with 62 out of 84 possible votes on Tuesday night. The president said the...
