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Some thoughts on my 90th birthday and how I came to live a better life in Cuenca

Jul 1, 2022| 10 Comments

Editor's note: Long-time expat Dave Nelson died early Friday morning in Cuenca. He was 93. Born in a small town on the Oregon coast, Dave spent most of his professional career as a workers' comp attorney in Oakland, California representing injured workers. Besides his legal advocacy, he described...

Airlines are overbooked and overstressed and things will get worse before they get better

Jul 1, 2022| 0 Comments

By John Walton Now is the summer of our discontent, Shakespeare didn't exactly write in "Richard III," but for airline travelers in the US and Europe that's exactly what this summer is shaping up to be. Flights are vanishing from the schedules -- some at the last minute as airlines fail to offer...

End of strike celebrations are underway but many are unhappy with terms of the agreement

Jul 1, 2022| 15 Comments

Although celebrations of the end of the indigenous strike will continue through the weekend strike leaders and the government understand the agreement signed Thursday afternoon is far from satisfactory. “On many points, we do not agree with the government,” Conaie President Leonidas Iza said after...

Public hospitals take drug inventory; Egg and chicken sales devastated by strike; Street artists decorate the walls; Symphony plays Beethoven and Debussy

Jul 1, 2022| 4 Comments

Jueves, 30/6/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Director invitado para recital de la Sinfónica (Guest conductor for Symphony recital ) - The OSC will perform a concert Friday a las 20:00 in the Teatro de la Casa de la Cultura. It will be directed by Yury Sobolev and will have The House of Beethoven...

Conaie ends strike after government agrees to 5-cent gasoline price reduction and other concessions

Jun 30, 2022| 32 Comments

The 18-day anti-government strike is over. At a 12:15 p.m. press conference, President of the Episcopal Catholic Conference of Ecuador, Luis Cabrera, announced that an agreement had been reached between the government and Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities. The key to the agreement,...

Lasso declares state of emergency for Azuay and three other provinces; Cuenca enjoys a peaceful day

Jun 30, 2022| 15 Comments

President Guillermo Lasso has placed Azuay and three other provinces under a 30-day state of emergency as a result of indigenous strike disruptions and violence. The emergency rules, issued late Wednesday for Azuay, Imbabura, Sucumbíos and Orellana Provinces, include nightly curfews and the...

LP gas trucks arrive, distributors look to normalize service; Zoo animals need food; City to apply fines for blocked streets; Art for migrants; Covid cases rise

Jun 30, 2022| 27 Comments

Miércoles, 29/6/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Al migrar, el arte es terapia (When migrating, art is therapy) - There has been an art therapy program run by Marinés Cardoso for migrants in Cuenca. 24 artists and foreigners worked together for 3 weeks to explore the questions of What is home?,...

Strike talks to restart with the Catholic church as moderator; Ground rules are yet to be determined

Jun 30, 2022| 3 Comments

Government Minister Francisco Jiménez announced late Wednesday that President Guillermo Lasso has agreed to a proposal by the Catholic Church to resume negotiations with indigenous organizations to end the 18-day-old anti-government strike. "In order to restore tranquility to the Ecuadorian...

Colombian ‘truth commission’ recommends major changes to the country’s drug policy

Jun 29, 2022| 13 Comments

Colombian leaders must recognize how drug trafficking has penetrated the country’s culture, economy and politics and how the global war on drugs is driving its internal armed conflict, Colombia’s truth commission said on Tuesday in a long-awaited report. The commission, established as part of a...

Conaie wants talks to continue, attacks Lasso’s decision to end them; Lasso survives impeachment vote; Many restaurants close; New supplies arrive

Jun 29, 2022| 34 Comments

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador leadership said it was “shocked” by President Guillermo Lasso’s Tuesday decision to break off negotiations. “Despite this insult, we remain willing to continue the dialog for the purpose of reaching a satisfactory conclusion to the strike,”...

Strike closes many city businesses, workers fired; Pleas to allow passage of supply trucks; Local towns join protests; Industrial production is paralyzed

Jun 29, 2022| 15 Comments

Martes, 28/6/2022 Hola, Todos - Titular - Cuenca, "acorralada"; esperanza en diálogo (Cuenca, "cornered"; hope in dialogue) - See today's (Tuesday) articles in CHL for the story. <Just about everything in the paper today is about the strike and the rest is public notices. So I'll nibble around...

Lasso ends talks with Conaie following ambush of truck convoy, claims Iza has no credibility

Jun 28, 2022| 67 Comments

President Guillermo Lasso abruptly ended talks with the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities Tuesday afternoon, blasting Conaie leader Leonidas Iza for “promoting his own political agenda” and ignoring the needs of the indigenous people. Lasso’s decision followed what he described as a...

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