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I would be hard-pressed to name the 12 things I like best about living in Ecuador: tucked-away haunts serving coffee and munchies amid endless conversation, oases of beer and laughter nourishing those tumbling downhill towards the church, and clouds like unruly mobs...
By Christopher Lux According to the World Economic Forum, there will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world's oceans by 2050. The world is throwing the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic waste into the oceans every minute. While I was living...
By John Lindsay-Poland When the presidents of the United States and Mexico brought the two countries back from the edge of a trade war on Feb. 3, each made commitments to the other. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum pledged to send 10,000 Mexican troops to the...
By Rhett Ayers Butler Randy Borman was never meant to be Cofán. And yet, from the moment he was born in 1955, deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he belonged to them. His parents, American missionaries, had come to translate the Bible into the Cofán language, but their...
By Christina Heiser Gluten-free eating has skyrocketed in popularity over the past decade, fueled by claims that cutting gluten leads to better health. This trend shows no signs of slowing down, with the global market for gluten-free foods projected to be valued at...
President Daniel Noboa on Wednesday took another step in his effort to enlist foreign military assistance to combat the drug cartels and organized crime groups that have been behind the escalation in violent crime over the past four years. Noboa, according to a...
Transport and Public Works Minister Roberto Luque said Wednesday that the Cuenca-Girón-Machala highway will reopen to traffic February 28, just in time for the long Carnival weekend. A 10-meter section of the highway collapsed Wednesday morning at kilometer marker 22...
By Sylvan Hardy Ecuadorians are asking: Why is it so cold? People are wrapping themselves in heavy coats and ponchos despite the fact that low temperatures are at the seasonal average. “It’s all the cloud cover and the rain,” says ETAPA weatherman Rigoberto Guerrero....
By Tiago Rogero and Blanca Moncada in Guayaquil Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a mural spanning the entire side of a six-story building in Guayaquil’s financial district went largely unnoticed for more than a year in Ecuador’s most populous city...
By Nicole Kobie Using generative AI at work may impact the critical thinking skills of employees — and that's according to Microsoft. Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University surveyed 319 knowledge workers in an attempt to study the impact of generative...
Continuing rain is creating havoc for motorists attempting to leave and enter Cuenca. On Wednesday morning, the Pan American highway from Cuenca to Girón and Machala remained closed following the collapse of two agricultural reservoirs in Victoria del Portete, 16...
There will be no return of the so-called “gag law” on the news media, National Assembly and government officials say. Enacted during the Rafael Correa presidency, the law was used to punish newspapers, broadcast media and journalists the government accused of...
By John Bartlett and Alan Yuhas Paddling through choppy waters under cloudy skies, Adrián Simancas and his father were packrafting only a few yards from each other when something huge lunged, mouth open, from the waves below. A humpback whale appeared to gulp Mr....
Cuenca’s Citizens Guard restricted access to the Yanuncay River Monday night as the river overflowed its banks in several locations. “We are advising residents to stay away from all riverbanks due to the possibility of collapse resulting from high flow rates,” a Guard...
By Júlia Ledur and Fabiola Ferrero Since the beginning of the year more than 1 billion fresh-cut flowers have crossed into the United States. They traveled thousands of miles — roses from Colombia, carnations from Ecuador, tulips from the Netherlands — destined for...
By Anonymous Why hasn´t religion faded away in the face of enormous scientific evidence that its claims are impossible? Every major religion was founded before science was invented. We now know that life after death is not possible, and that there is no heaven or hell...
Continuous rain in much of Ecuador is disrupting traffic, flooding farms and destroying property. Most of the country has experienced more than a week of rain and more is in the forecast. In Cuenca, the city's four rivers have been at or near flood stage since...
By Gabriel Bonis The Spanish language is full of surprises. It’s a Romance language — just like French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian — meaning it descended from Vulgar Latin. It has the second highest number of native speakers in the world at 595 million, second...
By Lex Cunningham Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years its glaciers will disappear completely. These are the conclusions of the Project for Adaptation to the Impact of Receding...
By Ali Pattillo In the last 30 years, our collective relationship with supplements has morphed into a full-blown obsession: More than half of adults in the United States today take supplements to “treat” nearly every health issue or psychological woe under the sun....
