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Yaku Pérez tells his supporters to vote their conscience, Pachakutik tells them to vote “null”
Rate Of New Deaths And New Cases Rises, Hospitalizations Are Second Highest Since Pandemic Began
Pandemic drove up debt to 63% of GDP, caused massive fall in income
National COE loosens up COVID-19 entry restrictions at both international airports
Leaving on a jet plane…
In Presidential Debate, Lasso calls Arauz a liar 12 times, Arauz attacks banks 15 times

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Yaku Pérez tells his supporters to vote their conscience, Pachakutik tells them to vote “null”

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 the President and Vice President of the Republic for the next four years. “I do not order or […]

Rate Of New Deaths And New Cases Rises, Hospitalizations Are Second Highest Since Pandemic Began

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 […]

Pandemic drove up debt to 63% of GDP, caused massive fall in income

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 health crisis came the paralysis of economic activity and […]

National COE loosens up COVID-19 entry restrictions at both international airports

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 […]

Leaving on a jet plane…

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 vaccination program in the state […]

In Presidential Debate, Lasso calls Arauz a liar 12 times, Arauz attacks banks 15 times

by Jonathan | March 24, 2021 | Volume 5, Issue 24

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 Creando Oportunidades movement – Christian Social Party (Creo-PSC), both spoke about their […]

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In this article

More from this issue

Yaku Pérez tells his supporters to vote their conscience, Pachakutik tells them to vote “null”

Rate Of New Deaths And New Cases Rises, Hospitalizations Are Second Highest Since Pandemic Began

Pandemic drove up debt to 63% of GDP, caused massive fall in income

National COE loosens up COVID-19 entry restrictions at both international airports

Leaving on a jet plane…

In Presidential Debate, Lasso calls Arauz a liar 12 times, Arauz attacks banks 15 times

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