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Last week I reposted an article about food safety — this advice is relevant all year 'round, and certainly now that we all must take extra care to avoid contamination with the COVID-19 respiratory virus. I linked to Brenda Langdon's important article about this...
Ecuador has banned all international flights from entering the country and closed its ports and border crossings. The last flights bringing foreign travelers to the country must arrive by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Flights carrying Ecuadorian citizens and legal foreign...
By Markku Sario First, may I apologize? I am Markku Sario of My Smorgasbord, not Robert Bradley, but merely a Bradley pro tempore with pretensions of adequacy. I am doing Robert’s column today while he is in the hospital with knee surgery that has become much more...
Latin American countries are stepping up measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, halting flights to and from Europe, banning public gatherings and closing schools. Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Honduras took tougher steps a day...
Travelers entering Ecuador from the U.S. states of Massachusetts, California, New York and Washington have been added to the list of those who must undergo a 14-day quarantine. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health had applied the order to travelers from China, Iran,...
Minister of Health Catalina Andramuño reported Friday that Ecuador’s first confirmed coronavirus victim has died. The 71-year-old woman, whose name has been withheld, arrived in Guayaquil on a flight from Madrid on February 14. She was hospitalized on February 29, the...
The government announced dramatic new measures Thursday to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Ecuador, including closure of the country’s schools. According to interior minister María Paula Romo, the new measures are necessary to reduce person-to-person contact....
Jueves, 12/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - Cuenca is the first Latin American city in which Trouble Diaries Series ("Diarios Problemáticos) will be exhibited. The show by 19 international artists from almost every continent will...
Just a few scant miles west of Cuenca lies a small and quaint paroquia named San Joaquin. Edie and I have been fortunate to call this area our home for a couple of years. It’s where we moved after our exodus from a life in El Centro where we lived high in the sky,...
Drug advertisements. Ugh. By the time they finish listing the side effects, you wonder why they even bother publicizing them? Have you noticed that almost every advertisement on the U.S. news show '60 Minutes' is for some pharmaceutical drug, or more recently, for a...
President Lenín Moreno declared a national health emergency Wednesday night, saying the action was in response to the elevation of the coronavirus to pandemic status by the World Health Organization (WHO). The declaration gives the government extra authority to take...
Peru delayed the start of its school year, imposed quarantines on travelers and limited the size of public gatherings in some of the most drastic measures yet taken by a Latin American nation to try to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. The start of classes...
Miércoles, 11/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - "El Tejido" - "The Tissue" or "The Weaving" is a new cultural space at calle Baltazara de Calderón 2-19 y Miguel Vélez and is part of the San Sebastián cultural circuit. In addition to presenting...
Acknowledging that Ecuador has been hard-hit by the dramatic drop in oil prices and the coronavirus, President Lenin Moreno is proposing a combination of budget cuts and new taxes to shore up government finances. "The country is in a delicate economic situation today...
Miércoles, 10/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Muestra - "La otredad del espacio" (The otherness of space) was opened at the Casa de Chaguarchimbana, and is a show of works by the students from the Eugenio Espejo school. Otras cosas - Titular...
Michael Osterholm, the infectious disease expert who has been warning for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic, says the U.S. and most of the rest of world is ill-prepared to combat the coronavirus due to a shortage of equipment and supplies....
After reading Brenda Langdon’s excellent article about the Covid-19 virus and sensible precautions everyone can take to stay healthy I’d like to repost my column about food safety. One of the best reasons for living in Cuenca is the variety of vegetables and fruits,...
"The people are telling us that many of the public spaces in Cuenca are drab and gray and need some greenery,” says Dora Ordóñez, director of the Municipal Cleaning Company of Cuenca (EMAC). “Our answer is, 'we hear you,' and are planning a landscaping program to...
Ecuador poses one of South America’s highest financial risks for foreign investors, according to the JP Morgan international risk index. Ecuador has a rating of 2,793 compared to 2,783 for Argentina. Ecuador’s risk skyrocketed 811 points over the weekend as...
Lunes, 9/2/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cooperativa Artesanal - A group of artisans that has been exhibiting their work in the Galerías de Oficios in the CCE are moving into a new space on Pres. Córdova y Luis Cordero starting el 12 de...
