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Hundreds of Indigenous protesters rallied outside the offices of Ecuador’s electoral council in Quito, the capital, on Tuesday and Wednesday to demand a recount of this month’s presidential vote. Third-place finisher Yaku Perez, an Indigenous environmental activist,...
"This is a human slaughterhouse," is how a National Police captain described the scene as he entered a high security area of Cuenca's Turi prison following Tuesday's riot. "It is the most terrible thing I have ever witnessed as a police officer." According to...
Martes, 23/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Áreas más seguras para los transeúntes (Safer areas for pedestrians) - The Municipalidad de Cuenca is testing a new area of superblocks bounded by Don Bosco, Loja, De Las Américas, e Isabel La...
Army troops began entering federal prisons Tuesday afternoon in Cuenca, Guayaquil and Latacunga in an attempt to contain what the government is calling coordinated riots by criminal gangs. At 3:30 p.m. the interior ministry said at least 62 have died in the riots with...
By the Asssociated Press It seemed like a match made in finance heaven. In 2010, China, its economy roaring and state companies looking to expand globally, set its eyes on Latin America, a region starved of capital but rich in natural resources the Asian giant lacked....
The demands by the attorney general's and state comptroller's office to examine the computer system used in the February 7 election has set off a firestorm with the National Electoral Council (CNE) and presidential candidates. The order for the audit is the result of...
By Sylvan Hardy According to archeologists, the first humans arrived in the Cuenca area about 10,000 years ago, setting up camp in the Chopshi cave, 18 miles east of the city. The site has yielded a bounty of arrow heads, spear points, pottery and tool shards....
Lunes, 22/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - "Dedicada a mi ex" una película ecuatoriana que triunfa en Netflix ("Dedicated to my ex", an Ecuadorian film that triumphs on Netflix) - This film, co-produced by Touché and Dynamo, is the first...
--Sponsored post-- By Rachel DeSalvo What do you do when tragedy hits while you are thousands of miles away? What do you do when tragedy hits while you are thousands of miles away? This is a question I receive all the time from worried pre-pats. For me, the answer has...
By Alexandra Valencia Surprisingly strong support for Ecuadorian environmental presidential candidate Yaku Pérez in the February 7 election shows the country’s nascent mining industry faces growing backlash that could weaken its expansion plans. Pérez, a lawyer and...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios has asked the national government to allow Cuenca to buy Covid-19 vaccines directly from the manufacturers, claiming the city is being short-changed in the number of doses it is receiving based on population. His request follows those of...
Center-left Andres Arauz will face conservative former banker Guillermo Lasso in the second round of Ecuador’s presidential election on April 11, according to the country’s National Electoral Council. Arauz, the 36-year-old protege of former socialist President Rafael...
By Aria Bendix The U.S.'s daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation's outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they've fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000...
The National Electoral Council met Saturday morning to compile the official results of the February 7 election. Once the votes from the provincial CNE offices are accepted and approved, official results will be announced, according to council member Luis Verdesoto....
Argentina’s Minister of Health Gines Gonzalez Garcia has resigned after media reports that people had been able to use connections to get access to Covid-19 vaccines. President Alberto Fernández had requested the resignation shortly after the news broke. The scandal,...
By Peter West “There is an urgent need today for the citizens of a democracy to think well.” These words, which could have been written yesterday, come from Thinking to Some Purpose, a popular book by the British philosopher Susan Stebbing, first published in 1939 in...
By David Leonhardt If you've been following the Covid-19 news, you’re probably familiar with the idea of vaccine alarmism. It goes something like this: The coronavirus vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective. Vaccinated people may still be contagious. And the virus...
By Liam Higgins The political effort to mount a unified campaign against the return of Correismo, personified by Andrés Arauz, suffered a serious blow this week as Yaku Pérez intensified his attacks on presidential rival Guillermo Lasso. “Do not even dream that we...
Jueves, 18/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - No hay nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Hospitales están en máxima alerta (Hospitals are on high alert) - The crowds in Cuenca during Carnaval included parties, family gatherings, and trips to the beach which were followed by...
By Stephan Kueffner and Sydney Maki The socialist candidate who won the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election had lunch with investors in New York this week to try to persuade them not to panic if he wins. Andres Arauz pledged to provide investors with legal...
