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By Fiona MacDonald For centuries, Peruvian locals have talked about a river in the Amazon that burns so hot it can kill. According to legend, Spanish conquistadors foolishly ventured into the rainforest in search of gold, and the few men that returned told stories of...
Talks between indigenous leaders and the government began Tuesday in Imbabura Province, which has become of the epicenter of the national strike called nine days ago by the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities. Mayor of Ibarra, Álvaro Castillo, urged negotiators to...
By Ray Horsley For a walking town Cuenca certainly has its share of riding options. We have buses, taxis, bike rentals, that new train, even our own airport. Still, we could benefit from the addition of Uber as an alternative to taxi cabs. Uber is widely used all...
By Mac Margolis In 2012, José Pereira do Nascimento lost his home when the Santo Antônio hydroelectric station in Porto Velho, in Brazil’s north-west Amazon basin, opened its floodgates. The 3,568MW plant, built to provide power for 45 million people, released a muddy...
By Louis Bourgeois There have been many predictions about events in 2025 providing the “tipping point” for our collective awakening and transformation. I had a vision which I put in a book in 2008 called The Third Pulse. In this short book I described our collective...
El Vicente Corral está en crisis - The Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, the largest hospital in southern Ecuador is facing significant limitations in many key areas that compromise its operating capacity. According to a report from the hospital, it urgently needs $8.8...
By Ognjen Pavlovic The American dream of homeownership has become increasingly elusive, with the average home price now exceeding $500,000 across the United States. Rising mortgage rates and stagnant wages have pushed affordable housing further out of reach for...
Some mornings in Cuenca I think the most popular language isn’t Spanish or English, but “confused WhatsApp.” Gringos tap, swipe, and stab at their phones, muttering things like “why won’t it translate?” and “what did she say about my molar?” I’m here to tell you that...
It is difficult to exclaim which ethnic foods are the most favorite in the world. The most popular ethnic foods vary by region, but analysis of Google Trends data showed five favorites. Chinese, Mexican, Italian, Thai, and Indian cuisines consistently rank among the...
In a show of force, the government sent a convoy of 120 military, police and civilian vehicles from Quito to Ibarra Sunday night as hundreds of soldiers cleared roadblocks on the Pan American highway. The convoy was dispatched following Saturday night violence near...
Ecuador’s cut-flower exporters claim the Conaie strike is costing them between one and two million dollars a day. In addition, they are demanding government protection from protesters who have invaded their farms, caused damage to facilities and threatened employees....
By Cepee Tabibian In 2015, I packed up my life in Austin, Texas and moved to Madrid. I was 35 and it wasn’t my first attempt. I had spent more than a decade dreaming, trying, and failing to make Spain home. Since then, I’ve built a life in Spain and created She Hit...
By Emma Goldberg There’s a type of awe that surrounds the Jewish High Holy Days that is solemn, fearsome. People beating their chests, dressed in all white, lying on the ground. During these 10 Days of Awe, God is said to be deciding who will and will not be inscribed...
The Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional two laws President Daniel Noboa claimed were necessary to fight organized crime. The decision makes permanent an August ruling provisionally suspending the laws while more than 30 suits against them were...
The Ecuador emergency service ECU911 reports that the “vast majority” of major highways in the country are open with traffic flowing normally. The exception, the service says, are roads in the central and northern sierra and in the northern Amazon region that have...
Bored? Tres días de música clásica - The Festival Música Ocupa will come to Cuenca with a program that will take classical music off conventional stages and bring it to historic, social and public spaces. Promoted by the Fundación InConcierto, this initiative is a...
Walk any calle in Cuenca and you’ll see two things that never change: the tiled roofs overhead and the brown deposits underfoot. For every mural that brightens a wall, there’s a pile of dog poop decorating the pavement. It’s the city’s most democratic hazard and rich...
The government said Thursday it is beginning the process of revoking the mining license for the Loma Larga mining project. In a statement, the presidential press office said the government has accepted the environmental reports presented by Cuenca Mayor Cristian...
By Frances A. Hogg It happened to me twice in so many months. I had paid a worker in cash only to have a ten-dollar bill returned to me a day later. I could see immediately that it was fake. The number in the lower left corner was brown, not the coppery-gold color it...
This article is part of “Facelift Ecuador: Share Your Positive Story!,” an initiative to publish positive articles from CuencaHighLife readers. If you would like to submit your story, click here. By Marcela Iriarte I have been in Manta, Ecuador for 3 years. I am...
