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Miércoles, 10/7/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Salvador Dalí - Two series of prints by Dalí, "Las cenas de Gala" and "Los sueños caprichosos de Pantagruel" are on tour and will be in Cuenca el viernes, 12/7 a las 19:00 in the Museo Pumapungo....
Hi, I’m Martín…Señor Martín Pescador to be exact. Brian isn’t around right now, neither is Edie. El Fantasma is gone too. That’s why I’m doing the writing today. Brian and Edie are my buddies. We’re close enough that Brian is trusting to me to do the talking this...
Minister of the Environment Marcelo Mata said Wednesday that he plans to move quickly to eliminate single-use plastics in Ecuador. "We have established a three-month deadline to reach agreements with the plastic industry, businesses and consumers with the intent of...
According to Mexican urban planner Roberto Ponce, Cuenca should look at the experiences of other cities as it formulates a master transportation plan. “To reduce traffic in its central city London made the cost of public parking prohibitively high,” he says, noting...
Martes, 9/7/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Revista - The magazine "Resaltador Digital" will be presented mañana a las 19:00 in the Piazza del Río at the Mall del Río. Charla - There will be a talk on "La ciencia y el lenguaje de los símbolos...
According to a gay rights activist group, at least two dozen same-sex couples were legally married Tuesday in civil ceremonies around Ecuador. Although the Constitutional Court legalized same-sex marriage June 12, the ruling did not take effect until it was registered...
An unusually heavy snowfall Monday night covered the Cajas Mountains from elevations of 4,200 meters and higher. Personnel at the Cajas National Park, west of Cuenca, estimated that snowfall measured as much as 14 centimeters in some locations. "Snow in the Cajas is...
President Lenin Moreno arrived in Italy Monday on the first leg of a three-nation European visit to promote investment in Ecuador. On Tuesday, he meets with Italian President Sergio Mattarella while meetings are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday with French...
Ecuador’s agricultural ministry has ordered measures to protect the country’s banana industry from the so-called “Panama Disease” fungus that has ravaged the crop in other countries. The ministry has dispatched more than 100 agents to banana-growing regions in the...
Lunes, 8/7/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cine - 18 short films in this festival will be shown from hoy to 10/7 a las 19:00 in the Universidad de las Artes <Oops, 77777I think it's in Guayaquil.>. Danza - There will be a dance...
As it has for almost a decade, Venezuela’s murder rate leads all South American countries. In fact, its rate of more than 81 homicides per 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, far ahead of El Salvador’s 51 and Honduras’ 40. Trailing Venezuela in South...
By Nicole Spector Move over seven wonders of the world! We’re obsessed with the five Blue Zones, the mysterious regions where people statistically live the longest. These five locales, Sardinia, Italy; the islands of Okinawa, Japan; the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica;...
Talks between the Venezuelan opposition and the government of President Nicolas Maduro to resolve the country's political crisis will resume this week in Barbados but the countries most affected by the millions of Venezuelans leaving home have low expectations for the...
Ecuador will join the market-friendly regional trade bloc the Pacific Alliance next year, the president of Peru said on Saturday, in the latest sign of the South American country’s rightward shift under President Lenin Moreno. The Pacific Alliance was formed by Peru,...
Viernes, 6/7/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival de Cine La Orquídea Cuenca - <This is a confusing article, so be warned I might be 180 degrees off.> The ex-prefect of Azuay, Paúl Carrasco, resigned from his office to run for mayor...
“My grandfather brought this back from Bolivia in 1924. He was stationed down there, working for a mining company when he was young. He always spoke of South America with great fondness as being a very special place; ‘It is not the United States at all,’ he would...
A frequent complaint of Cuenca tourists and expats is that they can’t find the tea they were accustomed to back home. Although Ecuadorians have a long tradition as tea drinkers, most of the local brews come from native plants of the Andes and surrounding lowlands....
By Silvia Marchetti Half a century ago, the picturesque Sicilian town of Poggioreale was hit by an earthquake that caused most of its citizens to flee for good, even though many buildings remained standing. About 350 citizens died in the magnitude 6.1 quake while...
Amid the worst economic meltdown in Venezuela's history — a crisis that has forced thousands of businesses to shut their doors — one unlikely product is flying off the shelves: the equivalent of Venezuelan tequila. Called cocuy, the alcoholic beverage was first...
Works by one of the 20th century’s iconic artists, the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, will go on public display Friday, July 12 at the Pumapungo Museum. Pumapungo's director of contemporary art, Juliana Vega, said the exhibition, the first major display of Dalí’s...
