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By Lee Harrison Expat hot spots around the world go through a fairly predictable cycle, morphing through a number of stages between their initial discovery and their maturity as a mainstream destination. The specifics of this evolution vary, but the general principles...
President Daniel Noboa is handing over presidential powers to Cynthia Gellibert for the second time in two weeks as he prepares for Sunday’s presidential debate. In an executive decree, he announced he will take leave from official duties from Thursday at 6 p.m. until...
By Garry Vatcher When we think of charity, most of us imagine doing good deeds. People donate money, volunteers give their time, and kind acts are carried out. However, based on my life experiences, I believe charity goes beyond just doing good things — it’s about...
Thousands of electric generators are piled on Guayaquil docks and in warehouses, many of them unclaimed, according to business organizations. “There could be 20,000 there, some of them already paid for, but no one wants them,” says Fabricio Cornejo, spokesman for the...
President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday that his government is committed to repairing and strengthening the country’s electric energy system. “What we inherited was a system in shambles and today, plans are progressing rapidly to put it back in order,” Noboa said in a...
By Florantonia Singer On the first day of his third term, Nicolás Maduro has warned that he is preparing an armed offensive with Cuba and Nicaragua in response to alleged foreign interventions. “We are preparing ourselves together with Cuba and Nicaragua and together...
By Brian Foster In a world where artificial intelligence seems to be evolving at a breathtaking pace, it might come as a surprise to learn that one expert believes generative AI, the very technology behind tools like ChatGPT, might not have a long lifespan. According...
Martes, 14/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Regresa monólogo "El Amado Inmóvil" (Return of the monologue “The Immovable Beloved") - Juana Estrella returns with her detective monologue on los 15, 16, & 17/1 a las 20:00 in the Sala Alfonso Carrasco in the Casa de...
By Jennifer Kahn Here’s a strange story: One day two summers ago, I woke up because my arms — both of them — hurt. Not the way they do when you’ve slept in a funny position, but as if the tendons in my forearms and hands were moving through mud. What felt like sharp...
By Tehniyat Zafar Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has issued a startling proclamation about the future of personal technology. Speaking at a recent tech symposium, Zuckerberg predicted that mobile phones, which have been a staple of modern life for more than two...
The leading presidential candidates, President Daniel Noboa and Citizens Revolution’s Luisa González, will not share the same stage during Sunday’s presidential debate. Because of the large number of candidates, 16, the debate has been divided into two sessions with...
Ecuador’s Mining Ministry is accusing anti-mining protesters of disrupting negotiations for a large-scale gold and silver mine in Azuay Province. The ministry claims a small group of activists is preventing the ministry and officials from Dundee Precious Metals from...
By George Ellison Recent autopsies revealed that there may be a sneaky way that microplastics are entering our brains — via our sense of smell, through our noses A team of researchers from Germany and Brazil analyzed autopsies from 25 adults and found that 21 of them...
A Constitutional Court panel has unanimously dismissed a legal challenge to President Daniel Noboa for non-compliance with Article 93 of the constitution which requires candidates for reelection to take a leave of absence during election campaigns. In its Saturday...
Domingo,12/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Muestra en el MMAM (Exhibit at the MMAM) - The Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno (MMAM) in collaboration with the U. of Cuenca opened the exhibit, "Heterotopia 3," in which 31 young Cuencan artists are showing their work in...
By Jeronimo Giorgi We have overcome darker times before”, were the closing words of former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís on October 4, addressing the decline of the democratic state in Latin America. For the eighth consecutive year, more countries...
The headline above is borrowed from a notice posted on a bookstore window in San Anselmo, California. More than a few news programs in the media recently sparkled with airbrushed images of despicable political louts facing serious legal trouble, followed by celebrity...
The Constitutional Court will consider a suit challenging President Daniel Noboa’s temporary transfer of presidential power to Cynthia Gellibert but rejected another case which questioned Noboa’s replacement of Vice President Verónica Abad with Gellibert. The three...
Cuenca not only has the best drinking water in Ecuador, it also has the cleanest rivers. A report on water quality by government biologists and hydrologists, credits the the sewage pollution plant in Ucubamba with drastically improving river quality levels. Until the...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a four-part series about professionally guided psychedelic therapy sessions that Cuenca expat C.P James and his wife participated in at a retreat in the nearby Yunguilla Valley. To read part one, click here; part two, click here;...
