From the Miami Herald:
But in the tiny Andean nation of Ecuador, the stunt was pulled off so convincingly that even the authorities seem to have fallen for the story — with tragic results. …
War of the Worlds: Ecuador Edition 1949 Read More »
From CNN:
Trains in Ecuador have been virtually moribund since the late 1990s.
“Strong winter rains of El Niño in 1982 destroyed a stretch of the railroad between Huigra and Bucay,” says Slav Ivanov of Ferrocariles del Ecuador, the train’s operators. “Further damage occurred during El Niño floods during the 1990s.”
By 2008, only about 10% of the Ecuadorian train network was operational.
Since then, the Ecuadorean government has spent some $280 million revamping the national railway. …
Train from Guayaquil to Quito Rises Again Read More »
The Alto Coca reserve that we have written about before is threatened by a power line. A week ago Mark Thurber and friends were soliciting letters of support from friends. I’ll try to post an update in the future. Here is the note they sent around in Spanish about what was going on. …
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Reprinted from Gizmodo:
It may look more like modern art, but you’re actually looking at a the highlands of Ecuador seen from the European Space Agency’s Envisat. The peaks pretty much face the satellite, so the radar signals it sends out are reflected right back, resulting in the strong, bright signals you see.
Near the top of the images you can see the outskirts of Quito — one of the highest capital cities in the world — as a series of white dots. Elsewhere, what looks like white glaciers at the peaks of mountains are in fact artefacts of radio data
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This is reprinted from the Peace Corps website.
Peace Corps Week celebrates President Kennedy’s establishment of the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. During this annual event, the Peace Corps community celebrates all the ways that Peace Corps makes a difference at home and abroad and renews its commitment to service.
This year, Peace Corps invites current and returned Peace Corps Volunteers to get involved in Peace Corps Week 2014 by participating in our Video Challenge and/or Classroom Challenge. Each challenge, designed to support Peace Corps’ Third Goal of sharing other cultures with Americans, starts on January 1 and continues through the end of Peace Corps Week on March 1. Follow the link to learn how you can participate in one or both of these exciting efforts.
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Peace Corps week just ended March 1, and PCV Kyle King posted a pretty cool video of his experiences in Ecuador, which of course made me nostalgic. Check it out.
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