On an economic scale, the pandemic year can be baptized as the year of debt, both because of its growth and because of the importance it represented in the movement of the economy. The public debt of Ecuador grew by 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). With the...
Well, I did it. I booked a flight back to the US to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot. Actually, two shots, three weeks apart. I had signed up for the vaccine in Florida, which is my legal residence, and really didn’t expect to see anything happen soon, as the entire...
The Presidential Debate organized by the National Electoral Council (CNE) was held this past Sunday, March 21, 2021. The candidates to occupy the seat in Carondelet, Andrés Arauz, of the Unión por la Esperanza (Unes); and Guillermo Lasso, from the alliance of the...
Last Thursday, presidential candidate of the Pachakutik (PK) political movement, Yaku Pérez Guartambel, spread a message on social networks telling his supporters to do what their “conscience determines,” in the April 11th elections, in which Ecuadorians will elect...
Update to: Glovo, Rappi and UberEats see massive increases in users during pandemic Published: Volume 5, Issue 7 Pedios Ya (Orders) has already replaced Glovo and starts operating in nine cities in the country With initial coverage in nine cities in the country, PediosYa, a delivery platform in Latin America, started its operations last Wednesday. This follows the October […]
Tracking the spread and outcome of the coronavirus in Ecuador: Updated for Tuesday, March 24, 2021 This week the government reported that Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Manabí provinces are seeing a 51% positivity rate, followed by Orellana at 49%. These numbers far exceed the national rate of about 30%, and the global rate […]
As of Monday, the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) has instituted new control measures in the international arrivals area of the Mariscal Sucre airport, in Quito, and the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil, to promote the arrival of more travelers safely to these two cities. Perhaps the most significant change in the rules […]