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Miércoles, 14/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Detenidos por corrupción en Petroecuador (Arrested for corruption in Petroecuador) - Ayer, Attorney General Diana Salazar, led 25 raids and the arrest of 9 people including the Comptroller...
Former president Rafael Correa said Tuesday that he plans to keep up his political fight from exile despite his protege's election defeat. He was a key presence in Sunday's presidential election despite the fact that he wasn't on the ballot and lives in Belgium. He...
By Stefano Pozzebon More than a year into the pandemic and as cases resurge in Latin America, two recent elections suggest that popular political views on how to escape the crisis remain deeply polarized -- at a time when cohesion is most needed. South American...
New test results for the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine show that it is 100% effective against severe cases, including hospitalizations and death, of the virus despite being less effective than other vaccines against milder cases. A late-stage trial in Brazil,...
Martes, 13/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Inauguran dos exposiciones de artistas (Two art exhibits open) - Cristina Urgilés Martínez opened "RespirArte...como te vivo Cuenca" ayer at the Casa Patrimonial del Alfarero (calle Lamar y...
By David Leonhardt The development of the Covid-19 vaccines happened with great urgency, for obvious reasons. One of the timesaving techniques by Moderna and Pfizer involved scheduling the two vaccine doses fairly close together — just three or four weeks apart —...
By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio and Rodrigo Pedroso A huge statue of Jesus Christ is under construction in southern Brazil, and it will be even taller than its famous counterpart in Rio de Janeiro. The "Christ the Protector" statue is being built in Encantado, a small town...
By Mitra Taj Peru’s presidential election is headed for a runoff, with Pedro Castillo, a far-left former union activist and teacher, in the lead, according to data released Monday by the country’s electoral body. He will likely face a right-wing candidate in a second...
President-elect Guillermo Lasso on Monday announced a "true change" in crisis-wracked Ecuador after bringing to an end an era of left-wing election victories. The 65-year-old former banker beat socialist economist Andres Arauz in Sunday's poll with official results...
Lunes, 12/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Old articles from el sábado, 10/4 - Un museo para conocer el cacao ecuatoriano (A museum to get to know Ecuadorian cocoa) - <Just what all of you choloholics have been waiting for.> After more...
Although the world’s capital markets breathed a sigh of relief following the victory of Guillermo Lasso on Sunday, he says he will not raise the country’s VAT tax from the current 12 percent. The International Monetary Fund has been pressuring current President Lenin...
By Bruce Wilson This is just my experience and my opinions so take them as that. Just read and contemplate it. I've had a feeling for a long time that the pandemic had mostly petered out. In September 2020 in Machala, I asked the front door guards at the mall and a...
By Melissa Erickson Whether eggs are good or bad for you cholesterol often depends on what you eat with them. With six grams of protein, vitamins and nutrients yet no sugar or carbs, are an affordable wonder food. On the other hand, eggs are naturally high in...
Former Guayaquil banker Guillermo Lasso has scored an upset victory over Rafael Correa protégé Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential runoff election. With 98.2 percent of the vote counted early Monday, Lasso held an insurmountable 52.4 to 47.6 percent lead. Although...
In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," said...
Unless the election is too close to call, the National Election Council expects to declare a winner by 10 p.m. in today’s presidential runoff between Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso. The CNE says that vote counting should progress quickly since there is only one race...
Folks occasionally write to me when they are considering moving to Ecuador from Canada, or the U.S. This is largely due to my writing commentary for CuencaHighLife....
By Regina Garcia Cano and Mauricio Muñoz A surging coronavirus pandemic that has brought on new lockdown measures and exacerbated fatigue in Ecuador and Peru has left many voters generally indifferent to the names they will see on the ballots Sunday, when the...
For all the prophecies of doom about the outcome of Sunday’s election, the changes that will follow are likely to be relatively minor no matter who wins. Most of the dire forecasts come from right-wing and centrist editorialists and commentators. At their most...
By Somini Sengupta How does a country deal with climate disasters when it’s drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of...
