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Well, if we really mean that astonishing kick some Chinese fighters display in the movies then CHINESE KICK would be the right translation. But that is not what we usually mean. In Ecuador, the disease known as  CONJUNCTIVITIS  (CONJUNTIVITIS in Spanish) is also commonly known as PATADA CHINA. Obviously, that is only a nickname and therefore we need a term with similar attributes and that would be PINK EYE.  CONJUNCTIVITIS or PINK EYE is an  inflammation  of the inner section of the  eyelids .  It is usually caused by an  infection  ( viral in origin, but apparently there is also a   bacterial type ) . Most of the time it appears first in one of the eyes, though in a matter of hours, the infection spreads to the other one. Why do we refer to PINK EYE as PATADA CHINA in Ecuador?  I would say there is a racist connotation to it, so that is how far I will go with that.

"Ecuadorian politicians are rookies compared to me!" Embezzlement is another form of fraud that, in turn, is considered a white-collar crime. It usually happens when one person is given the role of an administrator and is entrusted with other people's money and assets. Little by little (sometimes all at once) that money and assets are diverted to the accounts of such "administrator". One day this "administrator" simply disappears and it happens that those people or person's money and assets have been moved to someone's account in a bank of the Cayman Islands or some other country that allows the so-called "Bank Secrecy" and has no extradition agreement with other countries, in particular, that one where the crime was originally committed. Embezzlement is a concealed premeditated practice since the perpetrator does not want to be discovered and usually, he or she is not until it is simply too late.

Pacific Rim is a 2013 Sci-fi  film  directed by  Guillermo del Toro, the same as  The Devil's Backbone  (2001) and  Pan's Labyrinth  (2006), and also action flicks, such as  Blade II  (2002),  Hellboy  (2004).  Pacific Rim  was written by del Toro and  Travis Beacham , and has an interesting cast mixing relatively new faces with more seasoned performers such as  Charlie Hunnam ,  Idris Elba ,  Rinko Kikuchi ,  Charlie Day ,  Robert Kazinsky ,  Max Martini , and  Ron Perlman . The film is set in the near future, more specifically the 2020s. Suddenly, those countries around the Pacific are under attack by  Kaijus immense  monsters which have emerge from a  portal  between dimensions that opened up on the floor of the  Pacific Ocean . To combat the monsters, humanity makes an effort to create Jaegers: gigantic robots  controlled by two pilots whose min...

The word BERRINCHE or PATALETA is in Spanish that display of anger and frustration that usually children (and sometimes also adults) resort to when they don't get what they want. That in English is called a TANTRUM or TEMPER TANTRUM.  Little is known about the origin of this word, but the fact that is only a childish display of rage is arguable since also adults show TANTRUMS, although the reason seems to be another. Let's use the example of a former famous tennis player, Jimmy Connor, who once occupied the top player in the ATP ranking, back in the early eighties. When things started to go wrong in a game he would show his anger usually moving his racket demonstrating he was unhappy. Next his moves improved dramatically. Was it a coincidence? Not really. Apparently his TANTRUMS worked raising his energy levels, high enough so as to help him win a game though it did not always work.

Who says that only Hollywood can make great movies or that you need an impressive budget to do so? Well, Alazraki films demonstrates again that this is so untrue. With a limited budget this 2013 Mexican movie grossed more than 26 millions which makes it the most successful film of all time. It tells the story of Germán Noble (Gonzalo Vega) a millionaire and a widower that realizes a bit too late that his soon-to-be grownup children  Javier (Luis Gerardo Méndez), Bárbara (Karla Souza) y Carlos (Juan Pablo Gil)  are  nothing of what he wanted them to be, so he plans to teach them a lesson and pretends he has suddenly lost all his money so all  their cars are taken away, plus their cell phones are cut off and credit cards are cancelled. They all go to the abandoned house of Germán´s father that he never sold out of nostalgia and thus forces his children to get jobs and leave the shallow lives they had behind. Javier becomes a bus driver, Barbara a waitress and Carl...

e This is in a way another origin story. It tells us the origin of Wolverine's ties with Japan. Logan or Wolverine) has been unable to feel guilty after killing Jean Grey, and now lives in a forest somewhere in the Yukon. In his sleep he experiences nightmares where  Jean grey appears and talks to him telling him to "come to him", also repressed memories of being a prisoner of war in the 1945 Japan precisely the day the atom bomb was dropped over Nagasaki. He saved the life of a young compassionate soldier, called Yashida. One day a young Japanese girl introduces herself and says her name is Yukio. She tells him that Yashida has sent her to meet him again before he dies. Feeling intrigued Logan follows Yukio. She reveals that her employer and benefactor, Yashida, runs a multinational technology corporation. Acceding to the dying Yashida's request to say goodbye to him, Logan accompanies Yukio to Japan. Unbeknown to him there will be a lot of fighting when Logan...

Monument to Bolívar and San Martín My hometown, the city that welcomes (and shelters) everyone, literally. My 500th article had to be special somehow so what better way to celebrate than to write about my city on her foundation date.  Of course now we know that the date is inaccurate. Guayaquil was not founded by the Spaniards on a July 25th, 1535 but on August 15th, 1534 because Guayaquil was founded not once but several times with July 25th being the definitive.                                                                                          City Hall building                                                   ...