I’m sitting in the Sheraton Hotel in Cuenca in preparation of my flight out in the morning to Quito, and then from there to the Miami, Florida. As you all know, I’m going to go get my COVID vaccine(s), and I’m also going to go spend some overdue time with my mother....
While the restrictions of this past week will not show up in the number of new cases and related deaths for two to three weeks, there was some improvement in both the number of new cases and deaths from COVID-19 over last week. That glimmer of hope comes at a time when the country is […]
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The Central bank of Ecuador (ECB) reported that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ecuador was $1.0169 billion in 2020. Despite the fact that it was a pandemic year, and in most countries in the region there were falls compared to the previous year, the figure for...
The Our Ocean Conference in Oslo, Norway, the Marine Conservation Institute and its international scientific council recognized the Galapagos Marine Reserve as a protected area of excellence. The protection of a marine strip of two nautical miles around each island of the Galapagos Archipelago was the recommendation of the Land Management Plan in 1974. This […]
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The cost of the basic family basket, which includes goods and services representative of household consumption in a month, was $712.07 last February, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. Meanwhile, the average pensions of all retirees reach $655.20 per month, according to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), below what a four-member household needs to […]
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Since the beginning of the year, the epidemiological curve of the Ministry of Health graphs has registered an increase in cases, which has caused hospital centers to become saturated, mainly in Quito and Guayaquil, but also in other locations in the country as well....
Vaccination against COVID-19, the role of the Central Bank of Ecuador, reactivation and employment, environmental rights, education and abortion are some of the issues that were debated in the electoral campaign, which ends on Thursday the 8th of April. The presidential candidates Andrés Arauz, from UNES (1-5), and Guillermo Lasso, from CREO-PSC (21-6), presented their positions […]
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