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The public company that provides drinking water to Cuenca announced Saturday that it has instituted scheduled water cut-offs in Ricaurte and Sayausí as a result of ongoing drought conditions. Director of the company’s drinking water division, Fabián Cazar, said...
Unlike news reporting, where timeliness and deadlines prevail, composing a weekly column requires diligent patience. Folks often offer vignettes, eager for me to quickly pluck and dissect the highlights into a story, but a written commentary is not something that can...
By William Cooper U.S. politics have become criminalized. A steady drum beat of words and deeds -- from “lock her up” chants, to prosecutions of President Trump’s associates, to Trump pushing for Joe Biden’s indictment -- has eroded the bright line between politics...
Ecuadorians who took advantage of a law that suspended payments for a variety of debts and services for six-month are now required to pay up. Provisions of the Humanitarian Law, passed in April, that allowed deferral of rent, utilities, mortgages and other debts,...
By Manuel Rapalo As many voters across major United States cities poured into the streets on Saturday to celebrate a win for President-elect Joe Biden, the streets of the Mexican capital retained their usual hum of city noise. But rest assured, experts say, while the...
The likelihood that a coronavirus infection will prove fatal has dropped by nearly a third since April due to improved treatment, researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said on Thursday. In the United States,...
By Vincent Ricci A historic court ruling in Ecuador that will let a community vote on whether to allow mining in its midst could set the stage for a region-wide grassroots pushback against extractive projects. Pedro Palacios, the mayor of Cuenca, had submitted the...
The National Emergency Committee (COE) says it will consider imposing a “limited” state of emergency if Covid-19 infections trend higher. “We are watching the case count closely and will take the necessary measures to control the spread of the virus if necessary,”...
By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia Pfizer is expected to seek federal permission to release its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, a move that holds promise for quelling the pandemic but also sets up a tight time frame to make sure consumers understand what it will...
Jueves, 12/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Develan rostro de mujer que vivió hace 500 años en Pumapungo (Face of a woman who lived 500 years ago in Pumapungo unveiled) - In the 1980's, archeologist Jaime Idrovo found the body of a woman in...
By Stephen Vargha One of Cuenca’s international stars is helping to honor the city’s independence from the Spanish 200 years ago. Forty-year-old Sandra Argudo is giving back to her hometown with a special performance. The soprano and mariachi singer along with tenor...
Miércoles, 11/11/2020 Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 200 monedas recordarán el bicentenario de Cuenca (200 coins will commemorate the bicentennial of Cuenca) - The Asociación de Numismáticos del Azuay has designed a coin to celebrate Cuenca's Independence. The...
By Hillary Hoffower The generational wealth gap is stark. Multiple reports comparing millennials' wealth and earnings to that of boomers when they were millennials' age in the 1980s tell the story: Millennials hold four times less U.S. wealth than boomers held,...
By William Graham Over my head a brilliant blue morpho butterfly danced in the humid jungle air. It was a splash of blue against a curtain of endless green. In the trees monkeys jumped from branch to branch like Olympic gymnasts. In the sky, more species of birds than...
Ecuadorian and U.S. trade negotiators said Tuesday that they expect the recently signed bilateral trade agreement to go forward as scheduled when Joe Biden succeeds Donald Trump as U.S. president in January. “The agreement follows long-established standard practices...
Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Arte resurge como ave fénix (Art resurfaces like a phoenix) - In spite of closures of galleries during the pandemic, other artists are opening spaces in Cuenca. Painter Olmedo Quimbita opened a...
By Mario Abad There are roughly 2.5 million local artisans in Ecuador, most of whom rely on year-round tourists to sell their handmade wares. But with Covid-19 continuing to wreak havoc on the travel industry, many craftspeople have seen their incomes devastated. In...
Wearing a mask can help protect you, not just those around you, from coronavirus transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidance Tuesday. The statement was an update to previous guidance suggesting the main benefit of mask wearing was...
By Scott Smith Jenashly Matos may only be 9, but she has big dreams of one day becoming a doctor and helping people. The challenges she faces growing up today in a poor barrio in Venezuela's capital amid a historic pandemic are also hefty. The novel coronavirus has...
Lunes, 9/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Novela aborda drama de la pedofilia (Novel tackles pedophilia drama) - The novel "El Rostro" by Ernesto Arias tackles pedofilia in the Catholic clergy. It will be launched as part of the Encuentro...
