The Canary Islands, also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish archipelago and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, 100 kilometres west of Morocco at the closest point. It is one of eight regions with special consideration of historical nationality as recognized by the Spanish government. Canary Islands are geographically located in the African Tectonic Plate, even though the archipielago is economically and politically European, as it is part of the European Union.
Manuel Mora Morales is a Canarian writer, filmmaker and editor. He completed his studies at the University of La Laguna on the island of Tenerife. He is the president of the Asociación de Editores de Canarias.
The 2007 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
La Gomera is one of the seven constituencies represented in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the regional legislature of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. The constituency currently elects 4 deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the island of La Gomera. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of fifteen percent in the constituency or four percent regionally.
Tenerife is one of the seven constituencies represented in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the regional legislature of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. The constituency currently elects 15 deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the island of Tenerife. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of fifteen percent in the constituency or four percent regionally.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. Post-hoc genetic analysis has shown that at least 15 strains of the virus were imported and community transmission had begun by mid-February. By 13 March, cases had been confirmed in all 50 provinces of the country.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020 when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus. Ecuador has been described in April as emerging as the "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America. The city of Guayaquil has been overwhelmed to the point where bodies are being left in the street. As of April 2020, Ecuador has been distributing cardboard coffins due to the country's struggle in evacuating the dead bodies. The government is planning to build emergency cemeteries to dispose of the bodies which are left in the streets. The number of deaths is believed to be significantly higher than the official figure due to a low rate of testing, with many thousands of excess deaths reported compared to the equivalent figure for a normal period. A New York Times analysis found 7,600 excess deaths had occurred from 1 March to 15 April as the mortality rate spiked to three times as much as usual, indicating that the official death toll is an underestimate by more than an order of magnitude.
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Dominican Republic is part of the ongoing global viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was confirmed to have spread to the Dominican Republic on 1 March 2020.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. However, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco, one case per state. As of April 26, there had been 14,677 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexico and 1,351 reported deaths, although the Secretariat of Health estimated, in mid April 2020, that there were more than 26,000 cases in Mexico, because they were considering the total number of cases confirmed as a statistical sample.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Argentina on 3 March 2020, with 3,879 people being infected.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chile on March 2020. As of March 2020 there is a considerable COVID-19 outbreak in Chile. While initial cases had been imported from South East Asia and Europe, they expanded into a sizeable quantity of untraceable infections, placing the country within phase 4 of the pandemic as defined by the WHO, and surpassing a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Bolivia when its first two cases were confirmed on 10 March 2020 in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Paraguay on 7 March 2020 when an individual tested positive in Asunción. On 10 March 2020, the Paraguayan government suspended classes and all activities that involve groups of people, as well as public and private events, for 15 days with the goal of avoiding the spread of the virus, in accordance with Decree no. 3442/2020. Other preventive measures have been adopted as time has gone by, such as partial closure of borders, restricting entry of foreigners, curfews, and strengthening controls to ensure compliance with the measures.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached South America, first reported on 26 February when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo. By 3 April, all countries and territories in South America, including the French overseas department of French Guiana, and the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands, have recorded at least one case.
An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, was first confirmed to have spread to Honduras on 10 March 2020, when two women tested positive for the disease after one of them landed on Toncontin International Airport in a flight from Madrid, Spain and the other on Ramón Villeda Morales Airport in a flight from Geneva, Switzerland. As of 26 April 2020, there are 661 confirmed cases in the country, 468 in the Cortes Department, 64 in the Francisco Morazan Department, 29 in the Colon Department, and 21 in the Atlantida Department; 61 people have died and 69 have recovered from the virus and its complications. Confirmed cases have been reported in 12 of the country's 18 departments.
The first cases of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Uruguay were reported on 13 March by the Ministry of Public Health. As of March 2020 there is an ongoing outbreak in Uruguay, with the first few cases imported from Italy and Spain and local transmission occurring.
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Asturias is part of the Spanish outbreak of the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Spain had its first case in the Community of Madrid on 25 February 2020.
The 1979 Canarian Island Cabildo elections were held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st Island Cabildos of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife. All 137 seats in the seven Island Cabildos were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain.
