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See members of our Ecuador Dental Team speak in their own words, as per who we are, what we do and why we do it, all done seamlessly on behalf of our Expat Patients, per the value that is provided by and among our Dental Staff as well as the amazing contributions in...
Top of the line Ecuador Dental Services and all, we still like to have at least a little bit of fun at our Dental Clinic, and so here you can see our Administrator and Patient Coordinator, Adam Elliot Altholtz, jump from the top of the world (well at least from 3...
Dental Tourism, plus simply Dental Work for those many thousands of Expats who are already living here, is alive and well in Cuenca, Ecuador, now being world renowned for both US and Canadian Expats to visit and move to so as to have and enjoy the very best retired...
Amazing as it seems, with the tremendous year after year double (and in some years triple digit) growth of Tourists in Ecuador, Expats who decide to move to the country and do so each day in droves (more often than not to Cuenca specifically as shown here:...
An All-On-Four dental implant is just one of many kinds of dental implants. In this article, we'll talk about the All-On-Four implant in detail: what it is, information about the procedure to have them installed, recovery times, and possible complications with them....
A person’s smile is the very first thing that others see when they meet or visit with their family, friends, colleagues or new acquaintances. Some people are simply born with a great set of teeth, which allows them to have a beautiful smile. While others’ only...
Ecuador's hydroelectric generation plants are operating at their highest level in more than three months, the Energy Ministry reported Sunday. As a result of recent rains in the intermountain valley and in the eastern foothills of the Andes, the generation facilities...
By Rhett Butler In 1997, ornithologist Robert S. Ridgely discovered a previously undocumented bird species, the Jocotoco Antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi), in the tropical montane forests on the Amazonian slope of the Andes in southeastern Ecuador. This ground-dwelling...
By Sylvan Hardy Journalists are unanimous in their verdict that 2023 was not a good year for Ecuador. The headlines highlighted surging drug violence, the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, political gridlock in the National Assembly, the...
Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019. It said on its website that term limits provide "an ideal measure for ensuring that...
The Foreign Exchange Exit Tax (ISD) will remain at 3.5% and will not drop to 2% on December 31, as planned by former President Guillermo Lasso. President Daniel Noboa said Thursday he is “pausing” further reductions in the tax as a result of Ecuador’s budget crisis....
Energy Minister Andrea Arrobo announced Friday that electric power blackouts have been suspended until January 15 and could be extended further depending on weather conditions. Previously, the Ministry had planned to resume blackouts on January 2. Arrobo said recent...
By Emily Sohn It happens to everyone. With age come discomforts: achy joints, wounds that heal more slowly, and a rising risk for cancers, heart disease, dementia, arthritis, and other illnesses. Those changes follow an uptick in inflammatory molecules over the course...
A National Court judge agreed Thursday with prosecutors that Wilman Terán, former president of Ecuador’s Judiciary Council, should remain jailed until he goes on trial in 120 days. Terán was one of 31 people arrested in the Operation Metastasis investigation, accused...
US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has met with Mexico’s president, in an attempt to limit the surge of migrants reaching the US southwestern border. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he is willing to help, but he wants to see progress in US relations...
By Garnett Stewart For our new 2024, I propose a well-known poem known as "Desiderata." It was discovered on the wall of the Episcopal Church of my family in Baltimore, Maryland. Unsigned and dated 1692. My family's plantation was established on land that is now part...
Following criticism that the new government's plan to combat crime is short on details, Interior Minister Mónica Palencia is “filling in the blanks” in a series of interviews. “I agree we need to provide more information but we have been in office for only a month and...
Rains that fell over most of the country on Tuesday and Wednesday have refilled rivers and reservoirs but have also caused landslides and flooding. “There is always the bad side effects of heavy rain but, on balance, this is very good news since it brings drought...
By Constanza Lambertucci Summoned by trade unions and other organizations, thousands of people gathered in downtown Buenos Aires this Wednesday to demand the halt of far-right-wing President Javier Milei’s “necessary and urgent” decree to dismantle the Argentine...
Cuenca is the case that proves the point, says parttime expat and retired criminology professor Martin Simmons, referring to a recent article in the Washington Post that called the crime situation in Ecuador a “tale of two countries.” “The story quoted a United...
