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By Michael Littmann If you have been reading CHL and other gringo publications over the past few months you will have read about the corruption and mismanagement within the Cuenca Social Security (IESS) hospital, Jose Carrasco Arteaga, and the members of the expat...
By Elizabeth Heath If you’ve flown on a commercial flight more than a handful of times, you know the drill. Once the aircraft door makes that familiar “thunk” noise upon closing and that cold air starts blasting from overhead, the flight attendant will instruct...
A private Cuenca hospital refused to transfer a new-born baby to a public hospital last week because the parents could not pay the bill. While the couple and their attorney negotiated with hospital administrators, the baby, who was born in critical condition, died....
By Chase Squires After years of training, miles of road work and pool laps, Cuenca expat Paul Amos did something he’s never managed before, punching his ticket to the Ironman 70.3 world championships in Spain. Racing against nearly 800 athletes from around the world,...
Five people have been convicted for the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was killed by gunmen on motorcycles last year. Villavicencio, 59, was a former journalist and killed on 9 August as he left a school in Quito, after...
Viernes, 12/7/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Muestra de cortometeajes en cita con "Nuevos Cineastas" (Exhibition of short films at "Nuevos Cineaistas" (New Filmmakers) event) - The 3d "Nuevos Cineastas" event will be el 25/7 a las 19:30 in the Teatro "Carlos Cueva...
By Simone Cannon de Bastardo Although the Galapagos Islands, Atacama and Torres del Paine National Parks are well known among travelers from North America, most people don’t know that there are more than 300 other beautiful national parks, protected sanctuaries and...
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill When Ruth Harrison and Dan Phillips relocated from the US to Ecuador two years ago, their main goal was to enjoy a peaceful retirement. Just as the couple – who have chosen to use pseudonyms for this article – were settling into a new chapter...
By Rob Picheta "I don't want to be a flat Earther," David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. "Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you're an idiot?" But Weiss is a flat Earther. Ever since he tried and failed...
Ecuador’s interprovincial buses will suspend service July 16 and 17 to protest a lack of police protection on its routes. Federation of Public Passenger Transport (Fenacotip) President Abel Gómez says the protest will be non-violent and not result in road closures....
The Sangay volcano, midway between Quito and Cuenca, is sending a large plume of ash over five provinces, rerouting airline flights between Guayaquil and Quito and Cuenca and Quito. Beginning Tuesday, residents west of the volcano, as far away as Guayaquil, reported...
By Rashmi J. Dalai Long before glitz and glamour came to accompany corporate packages and overseas retirements, Ernest Hemingway likened expats to addicts: “You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake foreign standards have ruined you. You drink yourself...
By Brad Stulberg The other day, someone at my gym approached me and lamented that he could spend nearly every waking hour of his life executing the countless viral health and longevity recommendations popularized by internet influencers and podcast hosts, and he’d...
Miércoles, 10/7/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Tras de 20 años reabren terraza de Seminario (After 20 years, Seminary terrace reopens) - The Archdiocese of Cuenca is reopening the front terrace of the Seminario "San Luis" after 20 years. The 60 meter long by 6 m....
A man was caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China by stuffing them into his pants, according to the country’s customs authority. Customs officers in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen intercepted the man traveling through Futian Port,...
When we’re at our farm in Cañar Province, an hour-and-a-half drive north of Cuenca, I have my morning coffee beside the banana trees in the back yard. The neighbors can see me from the road and we exchange “Buenos Diases.” Most of them are on foot but a few ride...
Although the government forecasts revenue from legal mining to double in 2024 and 2025, it must also face the fact that most mining in the country is done illegally. “Illegal mining is generating almost one billion dollars a month,” says María Eulalia Silva, President...
Cuban journalist Alondra Santiago has asked Ecuador's judicial system to annul a government decision of to expel her from the country, an act she claims is related to her criticism of President Daniel Noboa. Through her lawyer Carlos Soria, Santiago insists on a...
By Caitlin Dow “You’d think we’d have a one-sentence answer,” says Colleen Muñoz, assistant professor of health sciences at the University of Hartford. “But it’s much more complicated.” The usual advice to drink eight 8 oz. glasses of water a day—the 8-by-8...
Periodico - lunes, 8/7/2024 Hola, Todos - To those of you who wrote in with the way to type the ü, many thanks. My Plan B was to enter penguin into the translator, then erase everything but the ü in pingüino, and move that where I needed it. My keyboard has a key with...
