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Jueves, 5/12/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - An ad for The Nutcracker on Ice. The Moscow Ballet on Ice will perform the Cascanueces (Nutcracker) on Ice el 6/12 in the Teatro Casa de la Cultura. Tickets are available from Golden Star, meet2go, and El Surtido. The...
By Gonzalo Solano Ice-cream production in Salcedo, a quaint town in Ecuador's central highlands, began in the mid-20th century, born from the ingenuity of Franciscan nuns. Locals say the sisters would drink fruit shakes made with milk from the region’s dairy farms...
By Virginia Furness, Julia Symmes Cobb and Alexandra Valencia Ecuador has started work on a deal to swap more of its existing debt and free up money for conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest, a stock exchange filing on Tuesday showed. In it, Amazon...
By Liam Higgins In 2023, about 650,000 barrels of diesel were consumed for private electricity generation, mostly by large manufacturing firms. So far in 2024, the consumption has passed three million barrels and could reach four million by the end of the year....
Citing improving hydrological conditions near the country’s hydroelectric facilities, the Energy Ministry announced Wednesday that it will reduce daily blackouts to five hours Friday through Sunday and to three hours from December 9 to 15. The ministry also cited...
By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering what you should know about bird flu — as well as South Korea, Bangladesh and California. Birds, cows, people By now, you’ve probably seen some alarming headlines about bird flu, and you may be wondering how worried you...
Martes, 3/12/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Exposición y Venta (Exhibition and Sale) - There will be an Exposición y Venta de ArtÃculos Street Football Art from el 4-6/12 with hours from 9:00-18:00 in the GalerÃa Vitrina (Pres. Córdova y Luis Cordero). The exhibit...
The government on Tuesday awarded contracts for two thermal power generation barges to the Turkish company Karpowership. They will join another Karpowership barge already operating near Guayaquil. According to Energy Minister Inés Manzano, one of the two barges is...
By Joyce Lee and Valerie Volcovici Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement on Monday, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil producers were prepared only to target plastic waste....
The Energy Ministry announced Sunday that power blackouts would be five to seven hours a day for the week of December 2. It said improved hydrological conditions at the Coca Coda Sinclair hydro plant and at smaller plants in northern and central Ecuador were “offering...
By Liam Higgins Ecuador didn't experience the widespread government violence against its citizens that Argentina and Chile saw in the time of military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s. Neither did it see the bloody guerrilla and drug wars of its neighbors,...
By Jen Rose Smith Parisian bridges are weighted down with copycat "love locks," while visitors crowd cheek-to-jowl into Barcelona churches and Dubrovnik's historic center. In Italy, attempts to manage the impact of tourism range from segregating visitors to fines for...
Domingo, 1/121/2024 Hola, Todos - Titular - Elecaustro alquilará 2 barcazas (Elecaustro will rent 2 barges) - The Empresa Electro Generadora del Austro (Elecaustro) announced that they will contract for the services of renting, operating, and maintaining 2...
By Anne-Sophie Brändlin When thinking of flying's environmental impact, the CO2 emitted from burning jet fuel is usually what springs to mind. But there's another, lesser understood climate culprit hiding in plain sight: condensation trails. The wispy, cloud-like...
Imagine taking a break from the norm with a dental vacation in Cuenca, Ecuador, where you can get top-notch dental care while enjoying a unique travel adventure. By choosing the Find Health in Ecuador Dental Clinic, you’ll have the chance to get excellent implant...
By Roger Ellis In my 16 years’ experience as an expat -- three in Mexico and Panama, and 13 in Ecuador -- most of the things you don’t hear about in the glowing reports about life overseas turn out to be unpleasant. (“They didn’t tell me how hard it would be to learn...
Blackout periods in most of the country have been reduced since Thursday due to increased hydroelectric generation. In Quito and Cuenca, one of two daily blackouts have been eliminated or have had their hours reduced. The Energy Ministry credits the higher production...
By Megan Janetsky and Gabriela Selser Sergio Mena's life dissolved in hours. After years resisting President Daniel Ortega, the rural activist fled Nicaragua in 2018, joining thousands of protesters fleeing a yearslong crackdown on dissent. Mena returned from exile in...
Jueves, 28/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del jueves, 27/11 (3 articles): Exposición patrimonial (Historical exhibit) - There is an exhibit, "Transformación y modernidad," by Gilberto Gatto Sobral at the Casa Patrimonial Municipal Quinta BolÃvar...
A day after saying she planned to fulfill President Daniel Noboa’s promise to end electric blackouts December 1, Energy Minister Inés Manzano said the new target is the end of December. Following her video announcement, Manzano’s office released a social media...
