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Int’l air travel shows strong recovery; City hosts handicrafts biennial; New tram card sales location; Cuenca-NY flights begin; Car theft ring busted

Jun 3, 2023| 0 Comments

Viernes, 2/6/2023 Hola, Todos - Cultura - De El Mercurio del jueves, 1/6(2 articles): Agenda cultural - 3/6 - Teatro - La Gallinta Sembradora - Auditorio Catalina Sojos de la Casa de la Cultura - 11:00 and 15:30. 4/6 - Muestra - Exposiciones sobre la Cuenca de hace 100 años - Museo Remigio Crespo...

With low support in the polls, Lasso and Iza decide against entering the presidential race

Jun 3, 2023| 0 Comments

Neither President Guillermo Lasso or Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) President Leonidas Iza will be candidates for president in the cross death election. Both made announcements Friday, ending speculation about their political futures. Although Lasso said he would not be a...

Attorney General receives death threat; Many poor children are unschooled; Vilcabamba expat is murdered; 13 listed missing in Alausí found alive

Jun 2, 2023| 16 Comments

In a survey of 4,000 poor and vulnerable families living in and near Quito, almost 20% of school-aged children were found not to be attending classes. Parents and custodians told Ecuador’s Secretariat of Inclusion that the children were needed to work to support their families. “Although the study...

Ecuador’s indigenous movement is in disarray as it prepares to name a presidential candidate

Jun 2, 2023| 3 Comments

By Liam Higgins Internal disputes among the indigenous movement's major social and political organizations is threatening to reduce its effectiveness in the coming cross death elections. Less than year after the movement mounted a powerful national strike that forced major concessions from the...

Peru’s native son Mario Vargas Llosa argues for a culture of freedom and a rejection of tribalism

Jun 1, 2023| 1 Comment

By Brian Stewart The novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has long distinguished himself as one of Latin America’s shrewdest observers of human nature, as well as one of its scarce classical liberals. Owing to a desire “to have one foot in the street,” Vargas Llosa has never been content to remain confined...

Mayor studies photo radar removal; Corpus Christi festival begins next week; Gov’t promises Cuenca-area highway fixes — again; Drunks targeted

Jun 1, 2023| 6 Comments

Miércoles, 31/5/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - Con informes definirán el futuro de los radares (Reports will define the future of radars) - There will be a meeting this week to talk about what actions will be taken to fulfill mayor Zamora's promise to remove the speed radars. His manager of EMOV EP,...

How companies strong-arm consumers to keep paying for products they’ve already bought

Jun 1, 2023| 16 Comments

By Nathan Proctor Andy Harding has been running his small electronics-repair shop, Salem Techsperts, in Salem, Massachusetts, for the past eight years. He does steady business fixing phones for college students and nurses from the nearby hospital. But soon after the release of the iPhone 13 in...

Catholic activists lead protests against mining and oil drilling in Ecuadorian Amazon

May 31, 2023| 3 Comments

By Eduardo Campos Lima Catholic Church activists from the province of Orellana in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been staging weekly protests since February against mining and oil exploitation in the rainforest. Protesters say extraction activities are contaminating the local rivers, soil and...

Ecuador – China trade deal put on hold by the cross death and dismissal of the National Assembly

May 31, 2023| 16 Comments

On May 11, Ecuador and China officially signed a free trade agreement that aims to boost bilateral trade, including that in the agricultural sector. The deal was signed by Ecuador’s Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries Julio José Prado and China’s Minister of Commerce...

As Argentina’s economy faces collapse, a right-wing candidate surges in the presidential polls

May 30, 2023| 41 Comments

By Daniel Politi He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist lie,” sex education is a ploy to destroy the family and that the Central Bank should be abolished. He also could be Argentina’s next president. Javier Milei, an admirer of former U.S. President Donald...

In desperate need of renovation, Cuenca’s venerable Colegio Benigno Malo struggles to stay open

May 30, 2023| 4 Comments

By Stephen Vargha “This building is the most neglected in the city!” Andrés Tola Alvarez is talking about Colegio Benigno Malo, located on Av. Fray Vicente Solano and 700 feet south of the Tomebamba River. “The New Cathedral, the building of the Court of Justice, and the mayor’s office are in the...

$Cuenca’s first Megamaxi opens in new mall late this year; New tram cards go on sale; City begins new crackdown on motorcycle infractions; A dog’s tale$

Cuenca’s first Megamaxi opens in new mall late this year; New tram cards go on sale; City begins new crackdown on motorcycle infractions; A dog’s tale

May 30, 2023| 13 Comments

Lunes, 29/5/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - El Tranvía tiene dos pendientes (The Tranvía has 2 pending issues) - Marcelo Toral Roura, the new director of the Tranvía announced that he expects to receive a batch of 20,000 Movilízate cards in the first 15 days of junio. The cards will go on sale...

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