Volume 5, Issue 14
From the week of January 10, 2021
UPDATES 1-13-2020
Update to: Tame airlines will soon be no more than a memory in Ecuador Published: Volume 4, Issue 52 Airline routes of Tame are offered to Latam Ecuador The operating permits held by Tame EP have been revoked and the frequencies left by the national flag carrier will...
As the coronavirus spreads post holidays, hospitals fill up across Ecuador
Tracking the spread and outcome of the coronavirus in Ecuador: UPDATED FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020 THE NUMBERS As we reported last week, Ecuador’s number of new cases of COVID-19—and associated deaths—have been on the rise for the last three weeks, likely as a...
Let it go, focus on the country
What to say about the goings on in the United States last week, that hasn’t already been said? Perhaps the only thing is to write about it personally. So, I’ll say this. Shame and sadness. That’s what I felt when I saw what happened at the U.S. Capital building on...
Ecuador Verifica fact checks more Presidential campaign claims
Over the last few weeks, we’ve run articles from Ecuador Verifica, an initiative in the country that brings together 14 media, 9 civil society organizations and 7 universities. Its objectives are to combat misinformation, verify the veracity of the speeches of the...
Cuenca Shorts 1-10
Campaign for the referendum on mining begins This Monday began the mining consultation campaign that will be voted on in Cuenca on February 7th. The groups in favor of “Yes” and “No” announced physical and digital strategies to reach the majority of voters with their...
Battle over entry thru Guayaquil airport heats up…again
On January 5, 2021, Wilson Tenorio, President of the Guayas College of Physicians, urgently asked that flights from Europe be suspended due to the increase in cases on that continent from the new strain of the coronavirus detected in the United Kingdom. The request...