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Food bank redistributes 57,000 kilos of food a month; Fight is brewing over proposed mining law; Income tax deadline...

Bored? – (De El Mercurio del jueves, 19/2) 30 esculturas Cuy Kuna en Parque El Ferrocarril (30 Cuy Kuna sculptures in Railroad Park) – The 30 sculptures from the call for proposals for Cuy Kuna are being shown at the Parque El Ferrocarril. The pieces show different designs representing elements of Cuencanan and Ecuadorian culture such as the ...


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Mindfulness: A practical approach to help diminish the stress and anxiety of modern life

By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N.

In today’s stressful society with news reports and events occurring that can lead us toward an ever-increasing amount of stress and anxiety, one approach which can help is that of mindfulness to help address the uncertainty.  The tenets of this technique have been addressed in a prior column but it bears ...


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As the mob cried out for blood, Marcel Proust awakens the lost feelings of grief, joy and love

By Chris Hedges

During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts Proust’s work. He wrote it as he was d...


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The true cost of Ecuador’s perfect roses: How the global flower trade poisons workers

By Lise Josefsen Hermann and Jasper Fabian Wenzel

The fertile high valley near La Chimba trembles with sounds. The rhythms of brass bands and cumbia music clash like weather fronts, each playing its own beats in the Andean rain. A rainbow spans the slopes and white plastic greenhouses, protecting the region’s treasure: roses bred for beauty, s...


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Parents say public schools in Cuenca are ‘falling apart’ and demand government intervention

Parents of Cuenca school children are demanding immediate government action to repair and remodel schools. “Our children sit in classrooms that have ceilings falling in and bathrooms that have not worked for years,” said Ramiro Diaz, the father of two children who attend El Valle schools in southeast Cuenca. “How can they learn when they are moved from one classroom to the ot...


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