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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Monday that the Pacific Alliance plans to add new members and Ecuador may be interested in joining. The alliance is a trade organization that currently consists of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Ecuador President...
Editor’s note: Writers on Writers in an on-going series in which Cuenca expat writers interview each other about their their work. Here, Lee Polevoi and Jean McCord talk about why they write and what they write. Writers’ Q&A (Part 1): Jean McCord asks Lee...
The Venezuelan National Assembly approved preliminary impeachment proceedings against Nicolás Maduro with 105 votes in favor (and 2 against), citing enough evidence linking him to acts of corruption regarding the Odebrecht scandal. Although the step opens debate in...
Have you ever seen something that caused your common sense to question your vision? I remember, while working in Baltimore, driving along a street near the downtown area. There was an old dilapidated building, something I’d seen countless times before. But to my...
Only days after a three journalists were murdered by drug traffickers, an Ecuadorian couple has been taken hostage near the Colombian border. It is unclear whether the abduction took place in Colombia or Ecuador, or where the couple is being held. In a Tuesday...
The Óliver Sinisterra Front issued a statement Monday saying it has stopped efforts to return the bodies of three Ecuadorian journalists. The front, which controls drug production and trafficking operations in southwest Colombia, has taken responsibility for the...
By Gil Castle This is the second article in a two-part series. The first article posited that beautiful cities can be analyzed using 15 categories of civic beauty. The 15 categories — the 15 “Beautiful Facets” — emerge from research conducted by CitiesBeautiful.org...
Supporters of former president Rafael Correa are being blasted by disability and human rights organizations for referring to President Lenin Moreno as a “cripple.” During an April 10 protest march in Quito, the Correistas chanted “se va a caer, se va caer, el patuleco...
By Susan Burke March Quick! Don’t think about it, just answer. What is the very first item you should read on the Nutrition Facts label? If you said calories, you’re wrong. Fat grams? Nope. Carbohydrates? Wrong again. The most important piece of information on the...
By Gil Castle While “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (as Plato was the first to say), we can nonetheless answer the question fairly objectively. Beautiful cities can be analyzed using 15 categories of civic beauty. The 15 categories – hereafter, the 15...
Ecuador military operations have resulted in 43 arrests of suspected drug traffickers in Esmeraldas Province. Most of the arrests were made near the town of Mataje, where army and special police units conducted door-to-door raids of 91 buildings. The arrests are part...
Okay, so it's been a while since I took this column into politics. But I have no choice but to vent today. Because I've had enough. Never in my life did I expect to see the chaos that was unleashed this past week in New York (and by association, in Washington,...
US Vice President Mike Pence told a summit of leaders in America on Saturday that more needs to be done to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that Washington "will not sit idly by while the country collapses. US Vice President calls for more measures to...
Ecuadorian and Colombian forces are intensifying their hunt for the leader of the group that has taken credit for the murders of three members of an Ecuadorian press team. A group of former FARC guerrillas that has taken claim for the murders of the press team from...
By C. Thi Nguyen Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different intellectual communities no longer share basic foundational beliefs....
Cuenca has suspended city-sponsored foundation holiday events for Saturday and Sunday in honor of three Ecuadorian journalists murdered by drug traffickers in southern Colombia. The cancellations follow the announcement by President Lenin Moreno of a four-day mourning...
President Lenin Moreno has confirmed that two Ecuadorian journalists and their driver have been murdered by their kidnappers in southern Colombia. He made the announcement early Friday afternoon following confirmation of photographic evidence by the national police....
By Susan Burke March As if you needed another reason to stay active as you age, a new study published in the journal Neurology (March 14, 2018) showed that women with high physical fitness at middle age were nearly 90% less likely to develop dementia as they age,...
OK guys. Prepare yourselves for an over-the-top review . . . Do you have an anniversary coming up? A graduation? Mother's day? In need of a romantic evening out? I have the place: La Caleta, Estevez de Toral 8-17 y Mariscal Sucre, just a block and a half from Cuenca's...
President Lenin Moreno returned to Quito Thursday night following reports that three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by a Colombian drug gang have been murdered. Shortly after his return from Lima where he had planned to attend the Summit of the Americas, Moreno gave...
