In a modern world where trends reveal what audiences consume through technology, just as television ratings have done since the last century, positive news tends to go unnoticed. This week, related to the excesses of the carnival in Salinas and Morona Santiago, or that Guayaquil went from 50th to 24th in the list of the most violent cities in the world as measured by the Civil Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice of Mexico stand out among the most read in the country.

Information about Shakira and Piqué or a local note about the unemployment of Caroline Jaume does not stop appearing in the lists. But this is not the only thing that information networks offer in Ecuador, except that digital users read, reproduce or share the most, according to the data provided by the technology.

There is positive news to suggest that all is not lost or taken up by carnival debauchery, crime, superficiality or political cannibalism. For a 70-year-old woman to finish high school and be close to graduation. To have her grandchildren support her in matters of the same technology that reveals audiences are rarely seduced by motivational stories like Josefina Chaguay’s screams of hope, according to her 18-year-old grandson. who will be the one to place the hood at the graduation ceremony.

That Marcelo Torres Vera, a man who was left without one leg in 2016, today continues to fight for his dream of competing in the Paralympic Games despite difficulties with a prosthesis, speaks of perseverance, that there are Ecuadorians who fight every day for their progress and goals. To notice that there are men and women who, with few opportunities, are progressing in business or in their agricultural production speaks of hardworking people. There is still motivating news in Ecuador, we must not let it get lost in the tide of shock or scandal. (OR)