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By Stephen Vargha One of Cuenca’s international stars is helping to honor the city’s independence from the Spanish 200 years ago. Forty-year-old Sandra Argudo is giving back to her hometown with a special performance. The soprano and mariachi singer along with tenor...
Miércoles, 11/11/2020 Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 200 monedas recordarán el bicentenario de Cuenca (200 coins will commemorate the bicentennial of Cuenca) - The Asociación de Numismáticos del Azuay has designed a coin to celebrate Cuenca's Independence. The...
By Hillary Hoffower The generational wealth gap is stark. Multiple reports comparing millennials' wealth and earnings to that of boomers when they were millennials' age in the 1980s tell the story: Millennials hold four times less U.S. wealth than boomers held,...
By William Graham Over my head a brilliant blue morpho butterfly danced in the humid jungle air. It was a splash of blue against a curtain of endless green. In the trees monkeys jumped from branch to branch like Olympic gymnasts. In the sky, more species of birds than...
Ecuadorian and U.S. trade negotiators said Tuesday that they expect the recently signed bilateral trade agreement to go forward as scheduled when Joe Biden succeeds Donald Trump as U.S. president in January. “The agreement follows long-established standard practices...
Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Arte resurge como ave fénix (Art resurfaces like a phoenix) - In spite of closures of galleries during the pandemic, other artists are opening spaces in Cuenca. Painter Olmedo Quimbita opened a...
By Mario Abad There are roughly 2.5 million local artisans in Ecuador, most of whom rely on year-round tourists to sell their handmade wares. But with Covid-19 continuing to wreak havoc on the travel industry, many craftspeople have seen their incomes devastated. In...
Wearing a mask can help protect you, not just those around you, from coronavirus transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidance Tuesday. The statement was an update to previous guidance suggesting the main benefit of mask wearing was...
By Scott Smith Jenashly Matos may only be 9, but she has big dreams of one day becoming a doctor and helping people. The challenges she faces growing up today in a poor barrio in Venezuela's capital amid a historic pandemic are also hefty. The novel coronavirus has...
Lunes, 9/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Novela aborda drama de la pedofilia (Novel tackles pedophilia drama) - The novel "El Rostro" by Ernesto Arias tackles pedofilia in the Catholic clergy. It will be launched as part of the Encuentro...
By Joe Ferullo The tumultuous presidential campaign and its razor-thin result place much of the mainstream news media at a crossroads: They can continue to aid and abet polarization in the search for profits, or they can dial back and help shift the tone of the...
It’s been called “super tea” or “super leaf” and health food stores and specialty coffee shops in North America and Europe can’t get enough of it. Guayusa, as it is commonly known, is made from the ilex guayusa leaf. According to some scientific reports and its...
After months of registering in the “excellent” and “good” categories, Cuenca’s air quality has been in the “unhealthy” range since Sunday morning. The regional Risk Management Service says the culprit is “a large load” of fine particulates, which it blames on...
"To be what you must, you must give up what you are." Yusef Islam/Cat Stevens Have you decided? Are you leaving your home country to seek adventure, excitement, and a new perspective elsewhere? If so, have you told the people you love? Telling the people we love...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an ongoing series that looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy A 35-year resident of Cuenca, Karen Kennedy personifies the heroic adventurer who...
By Marcelo Rochabrun and Daniel Ramos Luis Arce, a quiet economist was sworn in as Bolivia’s president on Sunday after a landslide election win, knew where he stood in the political spectrum as a young teenager in La Paz, when he picked up the writings of philosopher...
The restaurant business is a difficult undertaking no matter how you slice it. For the patrons, it is only after the rent, utilities and credit card bills are paid, as well as the other myriad expenses of daily life are set to rest, that they decide it is time to...
Responding to criticism of advertising affixed to several of the Cuenca’s tram units, city officials say the commercial signage is a way to offset operational costs of the system. “It’s a valuable source of revenue that we cannot afford to pass up,” says tram director...
Viernes, 6/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Publicación destaca rol de mujeres "heroicas" (Book highlights roll of "heroic" women <Or, to be politically correct, "sheroic" women>) - Kynku has published "100 mujeres de nuestra historia,...
By Adela Suliman Denmark on Friday defended its decision to kill millions of minks even after the World Health Organization played down fears of a mutated coronavirus strain, whose discovery precipitated the move. "All remaining mink will now be culled including...
