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Despite impressive gains of the last decade, President Lenin Moreno said Friday that supporting law enforcement requires more resources than ever. In a ceremony honoring the country’s national police, Moreno also announced new agreements with the U.S. to fight drug...
Viernes, 2/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - "Alza la voz feminina" (The feminine voice rises) - There will be an event from el martes hasta el domingo próximo in the museo Remigio Crespo with multiple artistic activities for the...
Ecuador is cleaning up its diesel fuel. According to Ecuador Minister of Hydrocarbons, Carlos Pérez, when upgrades to the Esmeraldas refinery are completed in July, the diesel produced at the facility will have a particulate count of 50 to 60 pollutants per million,...
By Jamil Enrique Moscoso Villegas The followers of former president Rafael Correa have decided on a name for their new political party: Revolucion Alfarista. Their first choice was Revolucion Ciudadana, but it was already being used by Alianza Pais, the party they...
Jueves, 1/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Cine - As part of a film cycle dedicated to women, "Cleo de 5 a 7" was shown Thursday in the Auditorio of CIDCP. Archeology - The Colegio de Arqueólogos del Ecuador presented a program titled...
A reader asked me, “Is white rice good or bad? I rarely touch the stuff, but my Ecuadorian friends keep telling me it’s good for you.” Yes, Ecuadorians do eat a lot of white rice, compared to North Americans. However Ecuador’s consumption pales in comparison to Asia....
Story and photos by Bartley D’Alfonso “O Fortuna, like the moon you are ever changeable, ever waxing, ever waning . . .” These are the opening words to the popular cantata “Carmina Burana," written by German composer Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), which premiered in 1937,...
By Liam Higgins Although Wednesday’s National Assembly agenda issue was the appointment of new members of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), the attention of legislators was dominated by charges and counter-charges between the assembly...
Miércoles, 28/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Library opening - La Unidad Educativa La Asunción (Asunción School) opened a library/playroom Wednesday. Taller - Wednesday CIDAP and the Japanese Embassy presented the latest in the cycle of...
By Matthew Hayes The tragic death of two teenagers from north of Cuenca who tried to stow away on a Latam jet bound for the U.S. draws attention to the privileged mobility of North Americans relocating to Ecuador — some of whom have commented on these deaths in ways...
The 2018 flu season is still hitting North Americans hard. At least 22 children died from the virus between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10, bringing the total as of Feb. 26 to 85, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They report “during week 7 (Feb. 11-17)...
They were high school students who dreamed of moving to the U.S. to work. Instead, the bodies of Marco Pichasaca and Luis Chimbo, aged 17 and 16, will be delivered to their grieving families in Cañar Province for burial. The boys were cousins, their homes less than...
I was a rebel in high school. The year was 1970 and Virginia Beach had largely avoided the upheavals of the 1960s, but we were making up for lost time. We grew our hair long, wore tattered jeans with American flags sewn on the butt, and talked in lingo: a cool guy was...
Martes, 27/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - CCE - The CCE presented its annual report Tuesday in the Sala de Conciertos. <That must have been a thrilling event.> Upcoming agenda events - Theater - "Del Budismo al casos...del caos al...
Bus service on most interprovincial bus routes was expect to resume today but transport companies say it could be several days before all routes are serviced. The companies say the strike was limited to 24 hours and that some progress had been made in negotiations...
By Liam Higgins Ecuador’s attorney general Carlos Baca says that the president of the National Assembly and a former national comptroller living in exile in Miami are out to get him. On Monday, he released an audio tape of a telephone conversation that appears to...
The bodies of two men were recovered Monday morning at the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport after an airport employee reported seeing objects falling from a Latam jet during takeoff. Law enforcement officials say the men, believed to be Peruvian, fell from the...
Lunes, 26/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Past agenda event - Viernes Cultural Salesiano - The Cultural Friday night at the UPS (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana) featured Profecía and Apocalipsis and was a success. Articles about - CCE - To comply with the...
By Philip Goff In the past 40 or so years, a strange fact about our Universe gradually made itself known to scientists: the laws of physics, and the initial conditions of our Universe, are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. It turns out that, for life to be...
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi Approximately 200 Muslims, most of them from Pakistan, get together to pray every Friday in a mosque at Calle Larga and Benigno Malo in Cuenca. “We want to show that our culture is not what some people think. Our religion promotes...
