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Ecuador’s ECU911 emergency response system suffered extensive damage to its technical equipment during the anti-government protests from October 3 to 13. According to Juan Zapata, ECU911 director, 80 cameras were destroyed nationwide during the period. In addition to...
Miércoles, 16/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Revista - El Observador magazine, ed. 113, is now in circulation. The theme is the fires in the Amazonia, environmental havoc, and effects on the people who live in the Amazon. Del cuerpo del...
National Assemblyman Fabricio Villamar is asking the attorney general’s office to investigate Azuay Prefect Yaku Pérez for the crime of rebellion which is punishable for up to 10 years in prison. Villamar, a member of the conservative Ahora Movement, says Pérez...
By C.N.V. and L.E.S. On October 2, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno announced an economic decree that brought the country to a social and economic crisis. In March of this year, Moreno reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that required him...
The Ecuador Ombudsman's Office reported Monday that eight people lost their lives during the 12-day national strike and 1,340 required medical assistance for injuries. It also reports that 1,192 were arrested during the protests. On Tuesday, Interior Minister María...
Regional LP gas distributor AustroGas says it could be several more days before its contractors can resume their normal home delivery routes. On Monday, following the agreement of the government and indigenous groups to end the 12-day national strike, AustroGas...
Martes, 15/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Breast cancer campaign - SOLCA is mounting a campaign to bring free medical attention to women. It will be mañana, el jueves, y el viernes from 10:00 in the Mall del Rió parking lot. SOLCA has a...
The barricades around Parque Calderon were pushed aside early Monday morning and, for the first time in almost two weeks pedestrian and vehicular traffic moved freely around the park. “We are once again resuming our normal lives,” Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said in a...
The government says it knows who is responsible for the violence that resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries during last weekend's indigenous protests in Quito: They are the followers of former president Rafael Correa. On Monday, National Police made four...
Lunes, 14/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival de Artesanías - The Inauguration of the XVII edition of CIDAP's Festival of American Crafts will be el 31/10 with the opening of the Mexican pavillion. Mexico is this year's featured...
By Susan Burke March The Journal of Wild Mushrooming is a fascinating resource for all things mushrooms. They say there are 10,000 described species in North American alone, but that may represent only a third to a fifth of what’s really out there! In percentages, 50%...
When Ned Meisner moved Cuenca in March 2019 he had already made several exploratory trips to learn about Ecuador and the role that Rotary International was playing in the country. After working with Rotary for over 10 years worldwide, he saw Ecuador as a place where a...
By Charlotte Mitchell Walk into any tourist shop in Bolivia and alongside postcards of colonial cathedrals and mist over the moonlit desert, you will see him. Evo Morales, with his shock of black hair and brightly embroidered jackets and ponchos, has ruled the...
Although indigenous leaders have called off their national strike, a return to normal routines in Cuenca may take several days. “We are very happy that we have reached an agreement but we must be realistic in the amount of time it will take to resume our normal...
The leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous community announced Sunday night that they are ending the 12-day strike that has paralyzed the country with protests and roadblocks. The decision came after President Lenín Moreno said he was withdrawing his plan to eliminate...
By Jeremiah Reardon Ecuador has come to a halt with "The Strike." Road blockades stop traffic around the country due to sharp price increases for fuel. Drivers of taxis, city buses, and other kinds of public transport walked off the job and paralyzed transport of...
Following two days of street protests in Quito, the government and protesting groups agreed to meet Sunday afternoon in an attempt to end 10 days of often violent confrontations. The talks will be mediated by officials from the United Nations and the Catholic church...
The good news for Cuencanos is that the city received new shipments of propane gas. The bad news is that it wasn't enough and sold out within hours of going on sale. Officials say that more is en route. Half a dozen gas tankers arrived early Saturday morning, part of...
By Michael Bartiromo And we thought mustard ice cream was a stretch. An ice cream vendor in Ecuador is reportedly seeing demand for her new — and arguably strangest — offering. It's made using the flesh of guinea pigs. Guinea pig meat, known as “cuy” in Ecuador, is...
Cuenca garbage trucks will roll again Friday night as scheduled pick-ups resume. The announcement followed negotiations by Mayor Pedro Palacios with residents of the Santa Ana parish who have maintained a blockade of the road to the city landfill in Pichacay....
