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The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee voted to keep the city under yellow light restrictions as several members lashed out at the federal government for not allowing a tightening of the rules to combat an increase of Covid-19 cases. "We will push our case more...
By Dan Sewell Millennials, you’re taking a big hit — again. And you’re not OK, either, boomers. Sometimes at odds, America’s two largest generations now have something to agree on: The coronavirus pandemic has smacked many of them at a pivotal time in their lives. For...
By John Keeble A British city that traded 500,000 slaves during the 17th and 18th centuries has been catapulted into the Black Lives Matter forefront by the toppling of a slaver's statue and its replacement in a dawn protest raid with a resin-and-steel figure of a...
By Marianne Brooker The Constitutional Court of Ecuador, the highest court in the land, has announced it will take on the case of the threatened Los Cedros Protected Forest by using the Rights of Nature enshrined in the constitution. The Constitutional Court chose to...
Jueves, 16/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Making bricks out of plastic - For 2 years, a group of students and their professor at the Universidad Católica de Cuenca have been working on a project to convert plastic bottles into bricks. First...
By Alice Chaummers Is this weird or what? The pandemia thing, I mean. What’s so lousy about it is that it’s gone on for so long and there’s no end in sight. We’re used to disasters, natural and man-made, that have some sort of sequence -- like a beginning, a middle...
By Saurabh Jha The Covid-19 pandemic has been a testing time for the already testy academic discourse. Decisions have had to be made with partial information. Information has come in drizzles, showers and downpours. The velocity with which new information has arrived...
Following the government’s decision Thursday morning denying Cuenca’s request to extend the nightly curfew and restrict alcohol sales and the size of public gatherings, Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios and Azuay Province Governor Xavier Martinez said the city may return to...
City and health officials in Cuenca and Quito blasted the national government on Wednesday for not allowing an extended nighttime curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol. “We have been waiting for almost two weeks for the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE)...
Miércoles, 15/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cultural spaces slowly reopening - At first, the Ministerio de Cultura published a guide for people in cultural activities to work in spaces without the public. Later a protocol for reopening...
Emerging evidence that the body's immune defense against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even harder for vaccine developers to come up with shots fully able to protect people in future waves of infection, scientists said on Tuesday. Preliminary studies in China,...
Eggs are a dietary staple in Ecuador. They provide a simple, nourishing, inexpensive, tasty morsel all in its own neat little package, albeit fragile. And, conveniently, they are found everywhere. Edie’s favorite, as well as mine, is the quail egg. Their cream colored...
Peru reopened domestic air travel on Wednesday in a bid to reignite the economy as it announced a drop of 33 percent in GDP for May year-on-year. Long queues of passengers formed from dawn at the Jorge Chavez airport in the capital Lima with 17 domestic flights...
Claiming that the coronavirus health emergency has reached "critical proportions," the Quito Emergency Operations Committee is asking the government to allow it to exend the nightly curfew, ban alcohol sales and impose new restrictions on the use of private vehicles....
Martes, 14/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 138 años tiene primera biblioteca (first library is 138 years old) - The article is part of the bicentenial observation. The first public library in Azuay was started 59 years after Cuenca declared...
Catholic bishops in 10 Ecuadorian cities have sent a public letter to President Lenín Moreno asking for the resignation of Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos. The bishops claim that Zevallos has shown an “inexcusable lack of leadership” in his role as the nation’s...
The Galapagos Islands on Monday reopened its tourist sites and marine reserve, which had been closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ecuadorian Environment Minister Paulo Proano said. "Today, under due biosecurity protocols, we are reopening the...
The presidential ballot for the February election is getting crowded. “It is not usual for a national election to attract a large field of candidates but this one could set a record,” says political analyst Carlos Fernandez. “Jaime Nebot's decision not to run for...
By William Haseltine The debate over whether herd immunity will be our salvation to the escalating Covid crisis was recently fueled by two new reports. The first was the release of a new nationwide study from Spain, a former Covid hotspot, which suggested that too...
Lunes, 13/7/2020 Hola, Todos - For whoever wanted links to the articles - sorry, but no can do. I work off a real newspaper. One you can wrap the garbage in after you're done with it. You can get your own subscription, delivered to your house or into your mora bush,...
