The financing that Ecuador seeks to obtain with the ICBC Bank of China of up to $1.4 billion, through a financial operation (credit) tied to a commercial operation (sale of crude oil), would have a total cost of between 9.43%, 9.70% and 9.83%, depending on the amount...
Well, today is election day in the United States. Because of editorial deadlines, I won’t know who has won before I have to turn this column in. In reality, because of all of the early voting, I (and you) probably won’t know for some time who won. Imagine, some states...
Update to: Ecuador has no immediate plans to open borders with Peru and Colombia Published: Volume 5, Issue 4 Borders of Ecuador will remain closed until the Security Cabinet is confident that proper protocols are in place Ecuador’s borders will continue to be closed, while the Sectorial Security Cabinet defines the protocols to follow in […]
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Tracking the spread and outcome of the coronavirus in Ecuador: UPDATED FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Before we get into this week’s numbers, we need to discuss something that has long concerned us and that has finally been brought into the open by the Ministry of Public Health. First, Ecuador’s COVID-19 testing system does not […]
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Two marble plates with 3,500 names carved in the stone are a memorial for many of the people who died in the most critical months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guayaquil. The tribute rises above the lawn of Jardines de Esperanza, a 20-hectare cemetery located in the north of the city. “It is a space […]
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Ecuador signed an agreement last Wednesday with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, for care, research and innovation in treatment of children with cancer in the public health network. The signing of the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador and the Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital of the United States, came as […]
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Ministry of Public Health does massive sampling effort in Cuenca In the Cuenca, researchers completed a sampling program this past Sunday, to see if they could find patients who may have gone through the coronavirus, without knowing it. Thirty brigades from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) went in search of test subjects throughout the […]
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China has again detected traces of the coronavirus in the packaging of seafood from Ecuador, this time in frozen fish. Chinese authorities have decided to suspend the importation of foods from an Ecuadorian company that sent the product, after traces of SARS-CoV-2 were found in the packages of a batch of frozen fish, the General […]
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The export of Ecuadorian flowers was still trying to recover after a series of protests that paralyzed Ecuador in October 2019, when the new coronavirus pandemic hit the country. The situation caused the cancellation of 60% of the industry’s orders and left it in a precarious situation that didn’t seem to have an easy solution. As […]
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This past Saturday, an Ecuadorian student attending Notre Dame University in the United States, died after being hit by a van while she was walking home with friends after anevening out. Valeria Espinel Trujillo, a 19-year-old young woman from Guayaquil was killed instantly after being struck by the van around 4:00 a.m. Saturday morning. Another […]
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Back in late August, Ecuadorian Vice President María Alejandra Muñoz, toured the Ubuntu community dining room located on Trinitaria Island, south of Guayaquil, which has delivered more than 12 thousand dishes and feeds 150 children a month. This Ubuntu kitchen will...
According to a study developed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ecuador, it is estimated that 3.1 million girls, boys and adolescents will fall into multidimensional poverty at the end of this year. This means that their homes will suffer one or more deprivations in education, health, food, housing, work and social security due to […]
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Tracking the spread and outcome of the coronavirus in Ecuador: UPDATED FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020 Now five weeks out from the lifting of the national restrictions, and two weeks out from the 3-day weekend holiday in October, we are starting to see a rise in new cases of the coronavirus across half of the […]
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Update to: Tame airlines will soon be no more than a memory in Ecuador Published: Volume 4, Issue 52 With legal action and sit-in, former TAME workers demand labor rights A group of former employees of TAME airline presented a protection action this week in the North Judicial Complex in Quito, claiming their employer retirement […]
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Ecuador will not rush to open its land borders with Colombia and Peru until a mechanism is found to guarantee health security measures in coordination with neighboring governments. "We depend on the decisions taken by neighboring countries, especially Peru, which has...
No Pase del Niño this year in Cuenca The Pase del brings together thousands of people in the center of the city each December 24th, but the tradition won’t be happening in Cuenca this year, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement issued by the Municipality of Cuenca and the Archdiocese, they have announced that the […]
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Cecilia Méndez is the new Prefect of Azuay. She assumed the position after the resignation of Yaku Pérez Guartambel, who is running for the Presidency of Ecuador in its 2021 election. Méndez, a 53-year-old sociologist will be in office until 2023. She says that while she has a role to represent the Pachakutik movement, she’ll be […]
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I promised myself (and you all) that I would try to not pay attention to the 2020 US election anymore, as I had already voted and what happened between then and November 3rd didn’t really need to matter to me anymore. But, I’ve not been able to quarantine myself from that completely, as almost everything […]
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Wondering what this year’s Tres de Noviembre celebration will be like in Cuenca? Looking forward to walking along the river and thru El Centro to visit all the artisan vendors and food stands? Unfortunately, Cuencanos will have to celebrate their Bicentennial independence from Spain in different ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen to that. When […]
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Tracking the spread and outcome of the coronavirus in Ecuador: UPDATED FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 We are now one month out from the lifting of the national restrictions that were put in place in March to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, and while it appeared that the country was doing well under the […]
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After 6 years of effort, two international groups scientists have finally found a way to delve into everything they don’t know about two species of bats native to the Galapagos islands. These two tiny species of mammals have been able to elude years of attempts to catch them. The project to study the Aeorestesvillosissimus (South […]
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In our “Updates” feature, we follow up on some of our most read stories over the last few weeks. Our goal is to bring our readers up to speed on any news that adds to, changes, or increases the impact of previous topics we’ve covered. Update to: Ombudsman’s Office...
The physical space for the Vehicle Technical Review Center (CRTV) of the Santa Isabel canton is ready. The Municipality now has to install all the techincal equipment to get this new CRTV into action. Santa Isabel becomes one of the first cantons of Azuay with the...
I spoke with my mother for a bit this week by WhatsApp video chat. It was nice, but certainly does not come close to seeing her in person, hugging her and seeing her laugh right next to me. Unfortunately, we both agreed that this would have to be the way of things for...
By June of this year, the writing was on the wall: the world would see massive unemployment rippling thru country after country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ecuador would not be an exception. By the mid-point of the year, the country was reporting 180,000 newly unemployed, according to its Ministry of Labor. To put […]
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A woman was shot and wounded in a brazen motorcyclist robbery in El Centro On Wednesday afternoon, a woman was shot and wounded after resisting an assault on Tomás Ordóñez and Juan Jaramillo streets, in the center of Cuenca. The criminals traveled on two motorcycles and fled after some citizens jumped in to defend the […]
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This week, the government announced its plan to give seniors refunds for the value added tax (VAT) automatically, at the point of purchase In a new resolution (#059 from September 28th), the Internal Revenue Service (SRi) announced that this process will start shortly after it is entered into the Official Registry. SRi said that the […]
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The world is facing an economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but in the case of Ecuador, the difficult situation in this area preceded it, which is why it has been hit harder than other countries. As a measure to obtain resources, the Government has requested money from international organizations, including the […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has affected the economies of countries on all continents, and its aftermath will last thru the end of next year, according to two reports released last week from the World Bank and the Bank of Spain. The World Bank estimates that the region's...
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