The archaeological heritage of La Libertad, one of the largest in Ecuador, since it covers almost the entire central area of this very active city on the Santa Elena Peninsula, is at risk of being destroyed for several reasons, including: 1: The lack of mandatory presence of a […]
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In South Africa, the World Cup continues to gather pace, and cleaner modes of transportation and other strategies have been incorporated as an environmental measure. But are they enough? It's estimated that the first World Cup to be played on the African continent will leave a carbon footprint eight times larger than that of Germany […]
We continue to receive stories and other writings from our readers. We will continue to publish them as space and time allow. The following was sent to us by Mario Silva Wong, a physician and supporter of the magazine. Dr. Mario Silva Wong: “The service of our career is in our hands, but the gift comes to us from […]
With the participation of more than 40 people, most of them members of the Hermandad Juvenil Solidaria (Solidarity Youth Brotherhood) but also members of the Ballenita community, the clean-up minga took place yesterday from 9 a.m. for more than an hour in the […]
On the occasion of the global call for #5 by Sursystem, where they request URBAN IMAGINARIES OF THE GLOBALIZED CITY, and in view of all the massive propaganda that is being given to this year as the Bicentennial (of independence), I "dusted off" from my hard drive some notes I had about something that always caught my attention […]
Millions of fans, music lovers, casual enthusiasts, followers of Rastafarianism, and the general public celebrate today at sunset with the Natural Mystic that drifts through the air, the sounds that this prophet, for many, but definitely an undeniable musical icon, left us as a legacy with messages from the island of Jamaica […]
We see the protests in Quito against the proposed Water Law on the news every day, but the public is unaware of what these movements are demanding and what is at stake. Now, from Ballenita, we share with you the nine "critical issues" that, according to several organizations, are the […]
We recall the poetic work in Amelia Pinoargote's book Intimamente azul (Intimately Blue). From the seaside shore, the old wind yawns and mournfully sings to us its song of sweet complaints. It slumbers... like the white grandmother in the stories, a quiet and gentle city: the town of Santa Elena. Two towers add a prayerful accent to the landscape, and its […]
The Ministry of Culture of Santa Elena, in order to contribute to the preservation of traditions and support residents who have decided to preserve their ancestral memories by passing them on to children, invites the general public to join the communities in celebrating their festivals with visits to […]
Thousands of people around the world commemorate today the second anniversary of the departure from our dimension of Dr. Albert Hofmann Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss chemist and intellectual, famous for having synthesized LSD for the first time, while studying the alkaloids produced by ergot, and which he himself described as "a […]
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