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Jueves, 14/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - La gente 'busca' al virus (People 'search' for the virus) - Returning to the "semáforo rojo" (red stoplight - your phrase for the day in case you've forgotten or recently arrived in Ecuador)...
By Jan Dynes Four years ago, December 2016, I was in Urfa, Turkey. 112 miles from Aleppo, Syria to give aid, volunteering in the Syrian refugee camp. It was my first war zone. I cannot unsee what I saw there, it rocked me to my core, showed me that my tough times were...
Travelers from 14 Latin American counties, including Ecuador, will be banned from arriving in the UK from Friday morning as a precautionary measure aimed at preventing the new Brazilian Covid variant from reaching the country, the government has announced. The ban...
By Clive Cookson People who have already contracted coronavirus are as protected against reinfection as those who have received the best Covid-19 vaccines, according to a survey of 20,000 UK healthcare workers, the largest study in the world so far. Public Health...
There are currently no plans for a nationwide lockdown similar to the one imposed in March and April, according Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos. “This is definitely not the time for it since the ultimate impact of the new Covid variants is strictly speculation at...
By Karl Sweetman Any long-term reader of the CuencaHighLife comments section will testify that the tone of those posts has grown noticeably more vitriolic and vituperative over the past few years, especially when the topic involves U.S.politics or culture. This...
Miércoles, 13/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Looks like 2021 is going to be just as crappy as 2020. I lost internet service on Monday <and no, it wasn't an unpaid bill>, called the provider, and the technicians came today. Now I have a new router to go with the new hard...
Authors note: I wrote this piece about five years ago after having arrived in Ecuador only a few weeks earlier. I’ve learned a lot about the folks here since then and a quite a bit more Spanish also! The shop is still there and the same artisan is still tapping that...
Five people were killed and another four were injured Tuesday night in an accident near Latacunga involving a Cuenca-based van. Police report that the passenger van collided head-on with a dump truck and that the truck driver had been drinking. Following the initial...
By Julia Buckley As pandemic quarantines go, this might be the best: sprawling on a hotel balcony overlooking azure Caribbean waters as you bake gently in the sun. But it isn't enough for some. The past month has seen a slew of high-profile cases of tourists getting...
The U.S. will soon require airline passengers to prove they recently tested negative for Covid-19 before flying to the country, according to people briefed on the plan. The measure, which aims to curb the spread of the disease, comes as new cases hit records. The...
By LP Wirth Getting a Panama driver's license as an Expat differs from that of a Panamanian citizen. Anyone who has driven in NYC, Paris, Berlin, or Madrid will manage to drive in Panama. Bring patience, alertness, though, and a valid driver's license. If you are in...
The central government is asking local Emergency Operations Committees to intensify efforts to control a predicted surge of new Covid-19 cases. “The reason for our new call is to avoid excess demand on hospital capacity,” says Minister of Health Juan Carlos Zevallos....
By Stephen Vargha The "farm to fork" concept is getting more and more popular among restaurateurs. Count Javier Patiño is among the believers in maintaing strong relationships with nearby farms to buy fresh in-season food to serve to customers. The chef and owner of...
Following a meeting with Colombian President Iván Duque on Sunday, President Lenín Moreno warned that armed groups are forming near Ecuador’s northern border with Colombia. He claimed the groups are associated with the FARC dissidents called the Óliver Sinisterra...
Domingo, 10/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Impulsan turismo rural (Promotion of rural tourism) - The tourism sector has not recovered due to the pandemic, and one alternative is to develop rural tourism which avoids crowding. One...
Sábado, 9/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Teatro - The Teatro Infinito-Salamandra will present a dramatic work, "Chinaku, el viaje hacia la liberación," el próximo 14/1 a las 19:00 in the República Sur and el 16/1 a las 19:00 in el Prohibido...
I’ve spun so many yarns about Cuenca to friends over the years that the tales are now woven together like an old sweater fitted by repetition and patches of lint like woolly lichen. Considering all of the changes we have been through of late, it seemed like a good...
By Luke Andrews Almost half of patients suffering from Long Covid may be left unable to fully return to work six months after their infection, a study suggests. Victims were most likely to still be plagued with fatigue, 'brain fog' or feeling unwell after attempting...
Viernes, 8/1/2020 Hola, Todos - My apologies for the long break from these Periodicos. 2020 ended badly with problems in getting emails, a kidney stone that was finally surgically removed 9 days after the first symptoms appeared, and then the computer not connecting...
