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A judge has ordered the elimination of flaring by the oil industry to burn off natural gas in the Ecuadorian Amazon, particularly in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana. The ruling comes in response to a suit by residents near oil production facilities who claim...
Drugmaker Pfizer employed “high-level bullying” against at least two Latin American countries during negotiations to acquire vaccines according to a recent investigation, including requesting the nations put sovereign assets as collateral for payments. In other cases,...
On Thursday afternoon, transportation officials announced that the highway connecting Cuenca and Guayaquil through the Cajas Mountains was closed until further notice. “The landslides have been unrelenting and we are simply unable to keep the road open for sustained...
Jueves, 11/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - More nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Pruebas PCR al alcance de pocos (PCR tests within the reach of few) - Getting a PCR Covid test from the public sector is difficult for patients who think they might have Covid. The public...
Author's Note: In July and August of 2018, the City of Cuenca, Ecuador presented my solo exposition “Momento Decisivo - Joyas Ocultas de los Andes.” Nine selections of my art hung in the Museo Central de la Escuela Viejo in El Centro. The exposition was originally...
It was a morning without sunlight Thursday in Riobamba and other communities in Ecuador’s central inter-valley region as new explosions from the Sangay volcano sent ash clouds more than five miles into the atmosphere. Even at noon, a local radio station reported that...
By Sylvan Hardy According to election analysts, there are two scenarios for the April 11 presidential runoff election. The first, promoted by most of the news media and election officials, is that Yaku Pérez’s challenge of the February 7 vote count will be thrown out...
By Stephen Vargha Augusto José Carrión has come home, so to speak. “I was here for two seasons, in 1978 to 1980,” the new consuctor of the Cuenca Symphony Orchestra said of his appointment. Carrión was a viola player for the symphony four decades ago, and his musical...
Miércoles, 10/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Docentes con nuevo escalafón (Teachers with new ranks) - After 2 years of discussion, the Asamblea Nacional approved a reform to the Ley Orgánica de Educación Intercultural which...
By Chris Smith For so many survivors, COVID-19 doesn’t end when the immune system eliminates the novel coronavirus from the body. The illness often turns into what’s often referred to as “Long COVID.” Millions of people can experience various symptoms once COVID-19...
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Despite being tear-gassed near the presidential palace on Tuesday, Ecuador’s mayors insist they will not leave Quito until the government explains how and when it will pay its debt to the municipalities. The mayors claim that cities are owed more than a billion...
--Sponsored post-- By Gwen Hyatt Staying safe when you travel is a priority for everyone, but especially for women traveling solo. There are certain steps you can take to help toward that end. I mostly travel solo versus with a partner or group, which has both...
Jueves, 8/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Mujeres, sin empleo y víctimas de violencia (Women, unemployed and victims of violence) - <Happy International Women's Day> Confinement because of Covid has aggravated violence against...
By Daniela Desantis and Carlos Valdez Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many into debt and...
By Stephen Vargha One of Cuenca’s newest restaurants’ fare is based on the 1989 American romantic comedy, "When Harry Met Sally," directed by Rob Reiner. More specifically, Pig & Cow’s sandwiches are inspired by the productions of Meg Ryan, aka Sally Albright. “We...
Women’s rights supporters gathered Sunday afternoon at the Broken Bridge to decry Friday's vandalism of a Rio Tomebamba bridge dedicated to the victims of femicide. The vandals removed a plaque honoring the victims and painted graffiti identifying themselves as the...
By Maria Cheg and Lori Hinnant In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter...
Ecuador and Paraguay have both received some 20,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine from Chile, the governments of the recipient countries said on Saturday. The donation of a total 40,000 doses provided a stark example of the disparities in South American...
I posted a column a couple of years back regarding the responsibility of expats to contribute their fair share to the well-being of our community. The message bears revisiting. Jeanne’s Periodico recently reported the following. "The federal government owes $1.054...
