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By Lindsay Schakenbach Regele Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the United States has ramped up military, economic and political interventions in Latin America. Nowhere were those three factors more clear than the U.S. abduction of Venezuelan...
When Cuenca feels like home is rarely the day you expect. It doesn't arrive with a visa, a property deed, or a date on the calendar. Instead, it slips quietly into an ordinary moment that almost goes unnoticed. Tuesday afternoons at Miguel's were becoming a habit for...
By Glenn Reynolds In recent years, there have been a lot of catchphrases around science: “Follow the science!” “We believe in science!” Even “The science is settled!” Well, sometimes it’s not settled. Sometimes it’s not even really science. But lots of people believe...
The price of gasoline dropped Sunday for the first time in five months but officials warn lower rates could be short-lived. “Prices are determined by international market factors and the recent resumption of hostilities in the Middle East is likely to drive prices...
One of the odd things about growing old in Ecuador is that you occasionally find yourself understanding English literature better while admiring the view from Larga Towers in Cuenca than you ever did in England itself. This happened to me recently while watching the...
By Ana Morales “Nothing in excess,” reads an inscription on the temple at Delphi. The Greek principle of mesotes, a tenet of Aristotelian philosophy, finds a surprising modern echo — albeit at a very different latitude—in lagom, a Swedish term roughly meaning “not too...
Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist for the New York Times, recently noted that among the most profound sociological changes that North Americans have experienced in the last 30 years is the catastrophic increase in loneliness. An October 2020 survey conducted by Harvard...
Following intense public criticism, Ecuador Infrastructure Minister Roberto Luque has rejected the winning design for the new National Museum of Ecuador in Quito. "We have listened to what the people are saying and we agree with you,” Luque said. “The proposed design...
The United States recently celebrated 250 years of independence, which prompted the usual mixture of fireworks, patriotic oratory, a guest speech from the King of England who said that there were no hard feelings, and arguments about whether the founding fathers would...
By Tim Reynolds and Obed Lamy Ashleigh Hallam teaches English as a second language at her local library in Indiana. Soccer is now teaching her Spanish as a second language. For her, this World Cup couldn’t make more sense. Hallam is among a sizable number of...
By Ellis Barber In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped them deep into the Amazon rainforest. Workers cut down trees and cleared the land and then they built a...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del lunes, 6/7) Experiencia sensorial se vive en Museo del Cacao (A Sensory Experience at the Museo del Cacao) - The Museo del Cacao offers a immersive experience centered in chocolate tasting, sampling, and a tour of the chocolate-making...
By Jason Mustian There's an age, somewhere in the sixties, when a person begins to notice they've become harder to see. A hand reaches past them at the pharmacy shelf, for the exact thing they were about to pick up, as if the space they're standing in were empty. They...
When a person goes missing, their relatives usually contact the police, hospitals or even the morgue. In the Ecuadoran port city of Guayaquil, a major hub in the international cocaine trade, the first instinct of many families is to search the Death Canal. Since 2023,...
By Elda Cantú I have been speaking Spanish for over 40 years, and practically every day I learn a new word, an unfamiliar meaning or a new slang term. I grew up on the border between Mexico and Texas, where a gallon container is called a yoga — after the English jug,...
Prosecutors are asking judges to sentence former president Lenin Moreno to six years and six months in prison for receiving bribes from Chinese contractor Sinohydro. In the trial's closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutor Carlos Alarcón claimed “it was clear beyond a...
By Drew Wood A $2,000-a-month retirement in Ecuador is not a fantasy, but it is not a blank check either. It works best for someone who chooses the right city, keeps housing modest, has a plan for the years before Social Security begins, and understands that visa...
By Evelyn Blackwell Sadhguru, the yoga master turned social media celebrity with over 8.6 million Instagram followers, says his philosophy is to always feel “blissed out” — adding that adopting this mindset might change your feelings about needing a luxurious...
By David Lawder The International Monetary Fund cut its growth outlook on Tuesday due to Middle East war-driven energy price spikes but said the world was already drifting toward a more adverse scenario with much-weaker growth as Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions...
Azuay Province Governor Xavier Bermúdez says the “security situation is improving” in Cuenca as a result of the work of National Police and citizen involvement. “This was already one of the safest cities in the country and the region and this year it has become even...
