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Miércoles, 28/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Exposición de arte religioso - There will be an exhibit of religious photos and sculptures opening Thursday a las 18:00 in the Mall del Río. It will run through 30/4. <Note...
Ecuador suspended internet access for Julian Assange Wednesday for social media posts supporting Spanish separatists and an attack on Britain for expelling Russian diplomats. According to the ministry of foreign affairs, Assange's recent posts violate a December...
By Sarah Kaplan The settlement looked like little more than 11 mounds of earth surrounded by a sunken ditch. But if Jonas Gregorio de Souza closed his eyes, he could imagine the Boa Vista site as it would have appeared 800 years ago. Perhaps, the archaeologist said,...
China has launched the highly anticipated yuan-backed crude oil futures in Shanghai, aiming to dethrone rival benchmarks Brent and WTI as well as the U.S. currency (Dollar). Trading of the new oil futures contracts for September settlement started on the Shanghai...
The government says that three reporters from the Quito newspaper El Comercio are alive and well and that talks are underway for their release. The reporters were kidnapped Monday near Mataje, several hundred meters from the Colombian border. Mataje is the site of a...
Martes, 27/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Teatro - To celebrate the Día Mundial del Teatro, the Grupo de Teatro at the Asunción High School will premier SOS hoy a las 19:30 y a las 20:30 in the Sala Alfonso Carrasco. Upcoming and...
Facing a $5 billion budget deficit, Ecuador has no choice but to return to the international bond market in 2018, says a financial advisor to President Lenin Moreno. According Miguel Carvajal, head of the Moreno’s political affairs office, the government is preparing...
Lunes, 26/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - "Huésped Nativo" (Native Guest) - The city held a press conference Monday to present the "Huésped Natívo" artistic residency program. Articles about - El Museo Curiosidades del Mundo (Curiosities...
By Gideon Long In the first week of this year, Peru’s Keiko Fujimori posted a family photograph on Twitter showing her seated next to her father Alberto, the country’s authoritarian former president. To Alberto’s left was Keiko’s younger brother Kenji, his arm...
By Fernando Pagés Ruiz The first thing that strikes you about the prominent billboard, when you make the turn onto Via a la Costa — the highway to the coast — that takes you from Guayaquil to the beach resort towns along the Pacific shoreline of Ecuador, is the price:...
Delegates from Bolivia and Chile are headed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday morning, where they will present their arguments over a disputed 380 kilometer coastline on the Pacific Ocean. Relations between Bolivia and Chile have been...
Domingo, 25/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Complejo de Todo Santos - You can visit the complex from martes a sábado, a las 8-18:00. The tourist route will take you into the church <recently restored>, terrace, patrimonial garden,...
My mother's moving soon. Before my next column. So I need to say what I need to say here this week. I'm proud of her. Very proud. She's been struggling for the last couple of years since my father died. They had been together for over 50 years and even though he...
Last week’s deadly attack on Ecuadorian marines patrolling the Colombian border prompted an emergency Saturday meeting of the Binational Border Commission at the Tulcán military base. Three marines died as a result of a roadside bomb police say was planted by drug...
There are few conditions that scream with such volume or shrill insistence as being employed in the information media business. There are deadlines to meet and important stories that need telling, right now. Urgency becomes common. Common becomes rare. Rare becomes...
By Markku Sario For a taste of something different, you must try Namaste India, at Calle Larga 8-81 y Benigno Malo. The entrance is very modest, with typical Cuencano small café signage out front, but the inside is a delightful surprise. A short hallway opens up into...
Ecuador’s high court ruled last week that a 2015 law ending government funding for the country’s Social Security (IESS) system was unconstitutional and ordered the contribution to resume in 2019. Not everyone is happy with the decision, however. “We are pleased that...
Viernes, 23/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - They have all started or are finished. There was a Hip-Hop concert <Which I'm guessing is not the type of venue most of you frequent anyway.> and a showing of the movie "Santa Elena en...
A mummified skeleton discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert 15 years ago doesn't look like anyone you've ever met. In fact, some would say it looks, well, alien. It's a skeletal conundrum made up of perplexing features. It's only 6 inches tall -- but initial estimates...
Although Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has committed more resources to combating drug trafficking on its southern border with Ecuador, some officials say the response is not enough. Santos called President Lenin Moreno following Tuesday’s deadly bombing,...
