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Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 23/4) Agenda - 27/4 a las 19:30 - Premier of "El velorio," a comedy about the death of a couple, told through their belated confessions - Teatro Sucre. 28/4 a las 18:00 - A discussion on AI and contemporary creation, followed by a...
The number of people killed in a bombing in a volatile region in southwest Colombia rose to 21, officials said Sunday. The attack happened Saturday when an explosive device was detonated on a bus traveling along the Pan-American Highway in the municipality of Cajibio....
There are certain places in the world that acquire an importance entirely out of proportion to their size, population, or apparent usefulness, and the Falkland Islands fall into that category. About thirty-five hundred civilian inhabitants, too many sheep to count,...
By Luke Barnes, On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day, had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In...
Cuenca has been rated number one for quality of life in the 2026 South America Quality of Life Index. The city also took top honors in 2025. The ranking considers such factors as climate, cost of living, health care, crime, infrastructure and urban environment. Cuenca...
Ecuador's Constitutional Court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a high-ranking lieutenant of the Los Choneros criminal gang. Dario Penafiel, known as "Topo," was arrested in September in Ecuador's Amazon, where he is believed to have been...
By Garry Vatcher Some projects begin with a plan. Others begin with a moment. The Amazon Fundraising Mural Project began with many moments - walking jungle trails, traveling rivers by canoe, sitting with community leaders, listening to mothers, watching children, and...
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa At 80, Leni Siegel’s rich life is visible throughout the Berkeley home she’s lived in for 20 years — in family photos, old theater programs from performances she attended and books she’s collected over the years. Now, feeling overwhelmed by...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del lunes, 20/4) Gala artística reúne lo mejor de la danza de tres provincias (Artistic gala brings the best of dance from three provinces) - The 7th national dance circuit will be in Cuenca este sábado, el 25/4 a las 19:00 in the Teatro Casa...
From time to time, an article or column surfaces or resurfaces warning expatriates that they will have to learn the hard way, that time works differently in Latin America. The warning is often delivered with the authority of someone who has just been embarrassed by...
By Laurence Blair For more than 25 years, Jardín Sonrisitas (“Little Smiles Kindergarten”) taught kids their ABCs in Villa del Cerro, a working-class portside district in Uruguay’s capital. But in December, the beloved kindergarten closed: one of three local creches...
Dozens of doctors, nurses and patients protested Wednesday outside a hospital in Quito, expressing outrage at a public health care system so overstretched that patients wait months for surgery and are forced to bring their own syringes and medication to the hospital....
Ecuadorian business groups representing agricultural, exporting, restaurant and tourist interests are criticizing President Daniel Noboa’s decision to apply a new nighttime curfew in five provinces and four cantons from May 3 to 18. “This is a terrible burden for many...
Editor’s note: Originally from California, Rick Ingle describes himself as a “student of expatriation.” Rick has lived overseas since 1984 in the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Panama, and now Ecuador. He has lived parttime in Cuenca since 2011. He's currently...
By Ariadna Baulenas i Pubill The Wari people founded their capital in the Ayacucho Valley, now south-central Peru. From here their culture spread, forming what may have been the first Andean empire. It was almost 550 miles north of the Wari capital, in the Ancash...
Feeling heartbroken, in the fall of 1980, after breaking up with Gwen, my Vermont girlfriend, and with nothing to keep me there, I traveled west to try to reconcile with her. She had returned to her job in the oil fields of southwest Wyoming. My friends, Tom from New...
The National Electric Corporation (Celec) has opened the contracting processes for six diesel-powered electric generation plants. Although Celec says the plants will provide "immediate thermoelectric generation,” it says it will months before they are operational. An...
When V. S. Naipaul sat down to write The Enigma of Arrival, he was already some distance from where he began. Born in Trinidad, of Indian descent, he left his island and moved to England on the strength of a scholarship to Oxford University, and much later was awarded...
An urgent message is traveling from the Amazon to the United Nations. This week, Amazon Watch will accompany a delegation of Indigenous leaders from Peru and Ecuador to New York for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). As part of our...
President Daniel Noboa announced changes to his presidential cabinet Monday, appointing a new health minister and announcing that Minister of Energy and Mines Inés Manzano will be replaced at the end of the month. Guayaquil physician and hospital manager Jaime Bernabé...
