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Former National Police lieutenant Germán Cáceres was sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison Thursday for the murder of his wife, attorney María Belén Bernal. In addition to the sentence, the maximum allowed under the criminal code, Cáceres was ordered to pay Bernal’s family $234,000 in reparations. Cáceres admitted committing the murder during...
Miércoles, 24/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Propuesta pictórica gratuita en la Galería de la Alcaldía (Free show of pictures at the City Hall Gallery) – The show, ‘Libertad, intimismo y creación’ opened today and will run through 19/7 at the Galería de la Alcaldía. The neoexpresionist works by several artists are from the reserve collection of...
President Guillermo Lasso has signed his second urgent economic decree-law after invoking of the cross death that  dissolved the National Assembly. The “Attraction and Promotion of Investments for Productive Development” initiative, which provides for the creation of new duty-free trade zones, was sent on Tuesday to the Constitutional Court for its review and implementation. The...
By Sylvan Hardy In his May 24, 1981 speech commemorating the Battle of Pichincha and Ecuador’s independence from Spain, President Jaime Roldós claimed that the fight for independence continued for Latin American countries. Ecuador should not become involved in “inconsequential entanglements,” he said, a reference to pressure by the U.S. to oppose leftist insurgencies in...
The National Elections Council’s decision to include a referendum question that could end oil production in the Yasuní National Park could have a major impact on the presidential and National Assembly elections, environmental activists and political analysts say. “Not much attention has been paid to the Yasuní issue, since the focus is on the presidential...
A major oil spill earlier this month in the Ecuadorian Amazon has sparked criticism of cleanup efforts and the lack of transparency from the government regarding the spill’s environmental impact. An oil pipeline operated by the state-owned Petroecuador ruptured earlier this month outside of the city of Nueva Loja, the capital of the province of...
Lunes, 22/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De El Mercurio del sábado, 20/5 (1 article): Baños, nicho de los ‘beauty trips’ (Baños, a niche for beauty trips) – The parish of Baños in southwest Cuenca, is full of locations for ‘beauty trips’ where you can get a relaxing massage and spa services. From underground, water...
By Aimee Gabay It was a Sunday in late February, and Eduardo Mendúa was doing what he was famous for: organising against the oil drilling that had transformed his ancestral lands in Ecuador. A member of the Indigenous Cofán people, Mendúa had seen pipelines and wells spring up throughout the rainforest his community called home. Oil...
With less than weeks weeks remaining for presidential candidates to register for the special cross death election, political experts say three strong contenders – two familiar names and a newcomer – are already known. Cuenca attorney and environmental activist Yaku Pérez announced Saturday he intends to run again for president. Pérez came within two percentage...
Six people were killed and at least seven were injured Saturday night when gunmen opened fire in a Montañita restaurant. Police are calling the attack a ‘revenge killing’ in which a gang leader of the Los Águilas was confirmed dead. As of late Sunday, only three of the dead, including Emilio López, alias Morro, had...
Viernes, 19/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Agenda cultural – 20/5, 19:30 – Teatro – Las damas sin perrito (The ladies without a dog <Poor deprived ladies – life is better with a dog>) – Sala Alfonso Carrasco. 22/5, 11:00 – Exposición – Tagore en el tiempo – Museo de la Universidad de Cuenca. 24/5,...
By Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt A day after he dissolved the National Assembly, averting his looming impeachment but triggering new elections this year, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso said he has no plans to run in them — and doesn’t care who replaces him. “My goal is not to prevent someone from returning to Ecuador,”...

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