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The biggest judicial corruption case in Ecuador history, code-named Metastasis, concluded Monday with the sentencing of 20 men and women who worked with drug trafficker Leandro Norero to provide favorable treatment of drug gang convicts. Among those headed to prison...
By Keston Perry As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. While its effects, such as unprecedented flooding, devastating droughts, storm...
Domingo, 24/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Exhiben artesanías de San Fernando (San Fernando handicrafts on display) - The crafts show, "Un Pedacito de San Fernando en el Corazón de Cuenca" will be at the Aceladora Cultural de la Casa de la Cultura (Luis Cordero y...
By Stephen Vargha It’s part of the business… Restaurants come and go. In Cuenca, it seems to be at a faster pace. And without notice. That is why many people wondered what happened to Jose Ibañez and his restaurant, Calvo & Co. Ibañez was the owner of Calvo &...
Power blackouts for Monday through Thursday will be six to seven hours a day, down from last week’s eight hours, the Energy Ministry announced Saturday. The schedule for Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago Provinces for November 25 to 28 is posted on the Centrosur...
By Andee Tagle and Malaka Gharib With all the cooking, feasting and leftover-keeping that comes with the holidays, it can be hard to know how to keep food safe. Sometimes we just do what our families did growing up (like storing rice in the rice cooker all day)....
Although President Daniel Noboa insists electric blackouts will end in December, experts say it is a promise he may not be able to meet. On Wednesday, Noboa repeated the claim at a ceremony in Esmeraldas. "As a result of neglect and corruption by previous governments,...
By Jeremiah Reardon Some of you may remember Jean McCord due to fund raising efforts for her hip joint replacement surgeries. The expat community is to be commended for how it rallied a couple of years ago to help her. Her progress has improved to where she now gets...
By Shayla Colon Angel Lata Landi called his mother in Ecuador on Sunday, as he did every week. He told her he would not be able to send her money as he usually did because his bills had mounted. But he promised to make up for it soon. The following day, in the next...
Miércoles, 20/11/2024 Hola, Todos - The regular post should be a Periodico for jueves, but the paper did not get delivered today, so you are getting yesterday's (miércoles) news. Titular - Hazaña ecuatoriana (Ecuadorian achievement) - Ecuador won against Colombia in...
Ecuador's Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the government’s attempt to suspend the right of assembly. The ruling came minutes before hundreds of anti-government protesters marched through Quito's historic district. Before the court announced its...
By Gloria Dickie The world's warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world's climate goals are slipping further out of reach. A massive surge in wetlands methane — unaccounted for by national...
Although wildfires near Cuenca have been extinguished or contained, massive fires continue to burn out of control in Cajas Mountains. Firefighters from Cuenca, Quito and other cities, assisted by more than 200 volunteers are working around the clock, officials say,...
By Tom Blanchard A common complaint of Ecuador expats and potential expats is the difficulty in finding accurate weather forecasts. This is especially frustrating lately as we desperately need rain to end the drought – and the blackouts and fires the drought is...
Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield has sensationally claimed Covid-19 may have been born in a laboratory in North Carolina – not Wuhan, China. In an unlikely turnaround, Redfield who had previously backed the Wuhan "lab leak" theory, says...
By Regina Cano Venezuela's government on Saturday released some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after deadly protests that followed the July presidential election. The disputed results have earned officials, including President Nicolás Maduro,...
Martes, 19/10/2024 Hola, Todos - Titular - Emergencia nacional por los incendios (National emergency due to fires) - See articles in today's (martes) CHL. Cuenca - De El Mercurio del lunes, 18/11 (1 article): Cortes de agua, aún latentes; la lluvia "fue leve" (Water...
Playing with only 10 men for most of the game, Ecuador defeated Colombia on its home turf for the first time in 59 years Tuesday night. The game’s only goal was scored in the seventh minute by Tri-Color striker Enner Valencia. Colombia, the highest scoring offense in...
By Diana Hubbell In June 2020, when many Americans were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic by stress-baking sourdough, Bryan Ford challenged them to think differently about it. In his book New World Sourdough, the Bronx-born, New Orleans-raised baker with Afro-Honduran...
By Steven Grattan and Sibi Arasu Colombia’s fiery left-wing President Gustavo Petro is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuels on the world stage today, with speeches that lump oil and coal with cocaine as his country’s “three poisons.” He’s set a goal of weaning...
