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By Stephen Vargha English author and philosopher G.K. Chesterton said, “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” The author of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown could have easily been...
By Deke Castleman As Calvin Trillin wrote in a Condé Nast Traveler article a few years ago, colonial Cuenca “doesn't look like a 16th-century city that has been preserved; it looks like a city that has been in use since the 16th century.” Trillin describes himself as...
By Linda Mason "Why is El Centro so crowded on weekends?" a caller to a Cuenca radio station asked last week. "Parque Calderon is full of people. The sidewalks are overflowing. There is standing room only in the tranvia,” she said. What's going on?" The answer is...
Domingo, 8/12/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Something about sports. Cuenca - The next two items are your civics class about the elections. Votos nulos (Null and void votes) - The law known as the Código de la Democracia determined what will be considered...
By Richard E. Cytowic We often comment and joke that our attention spans have dropped significantly in recent years with the rise of digital technologies and screen-centric entertainment, but there is sound science to back up this observation. In fact, a shorter...
President Daniel Noboa has decreed that Thursday and Friday, January 2 and 3, will be national holidays. The order creates a five-day New Year’s holiday from January 1 to 5. Noboa also ordered the 15% value added tax reduced to 8% for tourism-related purchases during...
By Sandee LaMotte In an international survey of dieticians conducted by U.S. News & World Report, the Mediterranean once again took top honors Tied for second was the DASH diet, which stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension, and the Flexitarian diet,...
By Kate Marin Wohlfeld A Christmas Carol continues ACT’s popular holiday tradition of portraying the excitement and atmosphere of liver radio theatre with a holiday classic. Adapted by Anthony Palermo, the show is faithful to the spirit and language of the original...
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 Artículos Street Football Art from el 4-6/12 with hours from 9:00-18:00 in the Galería 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...
