James
@James-Esq
Canadian looking for information about Ecuador
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Lives in North of Toronto
Speaks Conversational spanish
Registration: 22 August 2013
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Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
FYI, these have been freely available in Canada at most pharmacies for the last 18 months. I have a package, and actually used one once. On another aspect of this, hardly anyone is masking up here anymore in the town where I live. I still continue ... Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
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Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
Great synopsis, short to the point and hits all the keynotes. Well done, Mr Paul! Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
Interesting to revist this discussion of last year, and how opinions have changed officially, now that members of US congress have adopted the lab leak concept (notice I didn't call it a theory). Read More
Restaurant Food in Ecuador: The Strange and the Wonderful by cccmedia
This thread is inspired by an article running in New York Magazine's 'Grub Street' section (nymag.com) that tells how celebrity journalist Ronan Farrow can't get a side dish of lox. Restaurant waiters get confused if the brined ...
Interesting post cccmedia, for me at least, because I make myself smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese at least once or twice a week and I learned something from your post, namely that lox is not smoked (always assumed lox was brined and ... Read More
is Western Union the only best option for transfers to and fro? by maxocean
Hello, I am trying to make transfers to and fro USA and EC, but Western Union charges 8-20 dollars per transfer from USA to Ecuador. I looked into Paysera, they say Ecuador is in their support list, yet the customer service rep says it won't ...
Can't help you there, I'm not a US citizen, so don't follow the US tax regs on BTC Read More
is Western Union the only best option for transfers to and fro? by maxocean
Hello, I am trying to make transfers to and fro USA and EC, but Western Union charges 8-20 dollars per transfer from USA to Ecuador. I looked into Paysera, they say Ecuador is in their support list, yet the customer service rep says it won't ...
The price at the moment to sell BTC on that website is floating around $52,000. You can ignore the capital gains aspect, unless you are holding and selling. The information I gave is more suited to someone familiar with BTC. As someone who does a ... Read More
is Western Union the only best option for transfers to and fro? by maxocean
Hello, I am trying to make transfers to and fro USA and EC, but Western Union charges 8-20 dollars per transfer from USA to Ecuador. I looked into Paysera, they say Ecuador is in their support list, yet the customer service rep says it won't ...
Unless the WU franchise in Ecuador receives in USD and also pays out in USD, (which I do not know) you are also paying the currency exchange. When you add up the total shrinkage, its usually about 7% depending on the size of transfer. If you have ... Read More
The enormous increase in deaths in 2020 by lebowski888
During the first eleven months of the year, 104,887 people have died in Ecuador (until last Thursday Nov.26) according to data from the Civil Registry. That is, 38,423 more deaths than in 2019. 40,669 more deaths than in 2018. (Roughy 57% higher ...
(Ouch) Sorry to hear that. It's a very important story you just wrote. Things are not as they seem, not as they are painted to be. Hopefully you can obtain a few N95 masks somewhere, somehow. *** Read More
The enormous increase in deaths in 2020 by lebowski888
During the first eleven months of the year, 104,887 people have died in Ecuador (until last Thursday Nov.26) according to data from the Civil Registry. That is, 38,423 more deaths than in 2019. 40,669 more deaths than in 2018. (Roughy 57% higher ...
Seems on a par with many countries, given your population of 18 million. Do you think so? Yesterday, I was chatting with a tech guy in Israel, related to some hardware products, and the subject of the pandemic came up. He said they have 8,000 new ... Read More
Best way for a foreigner to travel? by bkiser
Hello, everyone. I am visiting in December for a couple of weeks. Would like to travel along the coast, from Posorja up to Crucita, maybe even farther north if I have time. What would be the best way to get around?
Another option for you to take buses when practical and hire private drivers when needed. You can like hire a driver for $40 plus fuel.Would that be for a day, as in 8 to 10 hrs? Seems like a fair deal. I hired a driver with car on the same basis ... Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
...the flat-earth bloviating by the world's most dangerous man. cccmediaVery good expression that. I looked up the origin of bloviate and according to Webster's may come from 1800's Ohio slang that combined 'blow', as in wind, ... Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
Interesting how different one country is from the other with respect to Covid, not only in South America but seemingly all over the globe. I was just on a skype call with a colleague in Uruguay, and for example they have just a handful of cases, and ... Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
I have just received a question as to why the Ecuador counts are so high? Much higher than other S American countries. Does anyone know?Some headlines from today's news: "Brazil and Mexico report record surge as Latin America ... Read More
Coronavirus in Ecuador by cccmedia
"Ecuador Declares National Health Emergency, Private Insurance Does Not Cover Coronavirus..." So reads a headline dated today -- March 12, 2020 -- on the Cuenca Highlife website. The article states that 17 cases of Coronavirus have ...
Not necessarily. Not everybody had close contact with everybody else. I have read somewhere that you must have a face-to-face conversation for about four minutes with a sick person to get infected.... Makes sense if you think of it. It is mostly ... Read More