Some labs provide cheaper tests. Our Covid antigen test in Cuenca was $11 and ready in one hour. The Spanish term “negativo” was accepted for travel. Several travelers to the US (including ourselves) simply needed to write in the birth date when it was missing from the report. What se...
COVID-19 has infected 19.2 million people and caused the deaths of almost half a million (Worldometers2021). Ecuador, with a population of approximately 17 million, experienced a health, economic and social crisis during the pandemic and had one of the highest mortality rates on the continent ...
Economic evolution follows the Central Bank of Ecuador's projections until 2020 [7], which accounts for the recent economic crisis effects due to low oil prices (2014–2015). After 2020, a single socio-economic scenario is considered, which assumes average growth rates of population and GDP ...
While Ecuador has never been the most dangerous country in Latin America, violent crime is escalating, in part due to gangs as well as the impact of the Covid crisis. Now for some up to date information! By August 2022, Ecuador has already recorded more homicides than in all of 2021, ...
His unpopular austerity measures, implemented to address the crisis, and high rates of inflation resulted in public demonstrations against his leadership. In 2000 Mahuad made perhaps his most unpopular decision—to adopt the U.S. dollar as Ecuador’s currency. This proposal proved to be his ...
It is noteworthy that the 1998–1999 banking crisis, which saw between 300,000 and 500,000 people (mainly the urban middle class) leave Ecuador, appears to have had little impact on population growth in Rióbamba. It is difficult to link demographic trends to land-use change in the páramo...