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Colombian President Petro vows a lawsuit after Ecuador’s Noboa alleges ties to gang boss ‘Fito’Colombian President Gusta...
20/04/2026

Colombian President Petro vows a lawsuit after Ecuador’s Noboa alleges ties to gang boss ‘Fito’

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday he will sue his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, who accused him of having ties to the leader of a ruthless criminal organization, deepening the diplomatic and trade crisis between the two South American nations. Petro announced his decision in a post on X in which he did not provide details of the lawsuit, including the country and venue in which he plans to file it....

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday he will sue his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, who accused him of having ties to the leader of a ruthless criminal organization, deepening the […]

Ecuador loses almost 16% of its electric production to theft and technical failuresAs some parts of the country are expe...
20/04/2026

Ecuador loses almost 16% of its electric production to theft and technical failures

As some parts of the country are experiencing blackouts, a government agency that reviews electric usage reports that 15.86% of total generation in 2025 was lost to theft and technical problems. It added that total losses appear to be increasing in 2026. The Agency for the Regulation and Control of Electricity (Arconel) says the loss of 5,100 gigawatts hours is equivalent to three-fourths of the annual production of Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant....

As some parts of the country are experiencing blackouts, a government agency that reviews electric usage reports that 15.86% of total generation in 2025 was lost to theft and technical […]

Why your alcohol tolerance diminishes as you ageBy Stacey Colino If you’ve noticed that having a cocktail or two packs a...
20/04/2026

Why your alcohol tolerance diminishes as you age

By Stacey Colino If you’ve noticed that having a cocktail or two packs a bigger punch now than it did when you were younger, it’s not your imagination. Many people don’t realize that both men and women develop an increased sensitivity and a decreased tolerance to alcohol as they get older. It's important to pay attention to this issue because research has shown that alcohol use has been increasing among people ages 65 and older in recent years—and the size of the older adult population is expanding rapidly now that people are living longer, notes George Koob, a neuroscientist and director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism....

By Stacey Colino If you’ve noticed that having a cocktail or two packs a bigger punch now than it did when you were younger, it’s not your imagination. Many people […]

The economics of appetite management in CuencaThere are restaurants in the city center where for $3.50, a man in a white...
20/04/2026

The economics of appetite management in Cuenca

There are restaurants in the city center where for $3.50, a man in a white apron will place before you a bowl of soup, a plate of rice with something on top of it, a small salad of red cabbage, grated carrot, and papaya with half an avocado pressed into a rough dressing that has not been introduced to a blender, a small dessert, and a glass of guanabana juice made from frozen pulp and plenty of water, which is to say exactly as much guanabana as the economics of the situation permit....

There are restaurants in the city center where for $3.50, a man in a white apron will place before you a bowl of soup, a plate of rice with something […]

300 prisoners arrive in Cuenca; National Assembly hits the road; Dance festival, Argentine song and dance, comedy on the...
19/04/2026

300 prisoners arrive in Cuenca; National Assembly hits the road; Dance festival, Argentine song and dance, comedy on the agenda; Centrosur to clear its poles

Bored? - (De El Mercurio del viernes, 17/4) - VII Festival mantiene la 'Tradición Corazonista' (The 7th Festival maintains the ‘Corazonista Tradition’) - The VII Festival Interinstitucional de Danza ‘Corazonista Tradition’ will be held el 24/4 a las 19:00 in the coliseo of the Sagrados Corazones school. Ten schools will participate in dancing to tropical, contemporary, folk, and national music. Tickets will be available at the door and from the school secretary during the week before the show....

Bored? – (De El Mercurio del viernes, 17/4) – VII Festival mantiene la ‘Tradición Corazonista’ (The 7th Festival maintains the ‘Corazonista Tradition’) – The VII Festival Interinstitucional de Danza ‘Corazonista […]

Catching the midnight movie with Jimi HendrixI was invited to speak at the monthly “Storyteller’s Night”, at IdiomArt (M...
19/04/2026

Catching the midnight movie with Jimi Hendrix

I was invited to speak at the monthly “Storyteller’s Night”, at IdiomArt (Mariscal Lamar 14-25 y Estevez de Toral the other night. It was a totally cool evening hosted by my new neighbor and soon-to-be good friend, Barry Callen, who mc’d this second-Thursday-of-the month affair that starts at 7 p.m. It was great! Mark your calendar. My story begins nearly 50 years ago....

I was invited to speak at the monthly “Storyteller’s Night”, at IdiomArt (Mariscal Lamar 14-25 y Estevez de Toral the other night. It was a totally cool evening hosted by my […]

Trump wants to stop drugs coming to the U.S. from South America but is that possible?By Ana Ionova and Max Bearak South ...
17/04/2026

Trump wants to stop drugs coming to the U.S. from South America but is that possible?

By Ana Ionova and Max Bearak South America’s bustling seaports have never been under more watchful eyes. They are patrolled by armed soldiers and monitored by thousands of cameras. Drones look for divers stashing co***ne onto ships. Sniffer dogs, special agents and scanners powered by artificial intelligence sweep containers stuffed with coffee and beef for signs of drugs. Yet, the painstaking work of intercepting co***ne before it leaves South America for the rest of the world is often a futile cat-and-mouse chase....

By Ana Ionova and Max Bearak South America’s bustling seaports have never been under more watchful eyes. They are patrolled by armed soldiers and monitored by thousands of cameras. Drones […]

New Chilean president launches deportation flights with migrants from Bolivia, Ecuador and ColombiaThe government of new...
17/04/2026

New Chilean president launches deportation flights with migrants from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia

The government of new Chilean President José Antonio Kast carried out its first deportation flight of irregular migrants on Thursday, expelling 40 people on a Chilean Air Force Boeing 737 that made stops in Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. The 19 Colombians, the last group to disembark, arrived in Bogotá shortly after 8:00 p.m. local time. The 17 Bolivians and four Ecuadorians were dropped off previously in La Paz and Guayaquil, respectively....

The government of new Chilean President José Antonio Kast carried out its first deportation flight of irregular migrants on Thursday, expelling 40 people on a Chilean Air Force Boeing 737 […]

National electricity company officials warned the Energy Ministry of a power crisis in early MarchThe management of the ...
17/04/2026

National electricity company officials warned the Energy Ministry of a power crisis in early March

The management of the National Electricity Operator (CENACE) warned the Energy Ministry of the “urgent need” to make repairs to electric transmission lines and substations weeks before recent service suspensions began in Guayaquil and Quito. In a March 6 memo, CENACE provided a list of repairs and upgrades it said were essential. "If these works are not carried out, there is a high probability of overloads and service cuts in some parts of the country,” it said....

The management of the National Electricity Operator (CENACE) warned the Energy Ministry of the “urgent need” to make repairs to electric transmission lines and substations weeks before recent service suspensions […]

Crash survivors report hearing a loud noise just before bus veered off the highwaySurvivors of Wednesday’s deadly bus ac...
17/04/2026

Crash survivors report hearing a loud noise just before bus veered off the highway

Survivors of Wednesday’s deadly bus accident on the Cuenca-Molleturo highway say there was a loud noise seconds before the San Luis Cooperative bus veered off the roadway and burst into flames. Radio Tomebamba reporter Iván Velesaca quoted one hospitalized woman as saying the “trip was going calmly and smoothly” before she heard a loud noise. The daughter of another survivor told a Transportation Ministry employee that her father and other passengers heard “a bang and felt a thump” just before the wreck....

Survivors of Wednesday’s deadly bus accident on the Cuenca-Molleturo highway say there was a loud noise seconds before the San Luis Cooperative bus veered off the roadway and burst into […]

The first gold record in historyThere are certain songs that do not so much belong to a period as continue living inside...
17/04/2026

The first gold record in history

There are certain songs that do not so much belong to a period as continue living inside it, like a station clock that still keeps perfect time long after the timetable has ceased to matter, and Chattanooga Choo Choo is one of those, appearing simple on first hearing but revealing, on closer inspection, a complete and now largely vanished way of organizing everyday life....

There are certain songs that do not so much belong to a period as continue living inside it, like a station clock that still keeps perfect time long after the […]

It’s the end of the internet as we know itBy Raffi Krikorian Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial i...
16/04/2026

It’s the end of the internet as we know it

By Raffi Krikorian Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, would not be released to the public, after the company learned it was capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that have gone undetected in critical software systems for decades. Instead, Anthropic gave access to Mythos — and $100 million in credits to use it — to more than 50 of the world’s largest organizations, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and JPMorgan Chase, as part of a defensive cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing....

By Raffi Krikorian Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, would not be released to the public, after the company learned it was capable […]

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